KRAAK's Antwerpian ventures keep festive spirits afloat and/or ablaze depending on the weather, and the insight can't get any truer than with this micro KRAAK Fest at De Nor! Those iconic sculptural steps will be the gateway into sounds rising and radical, novel and known, for anyone needing a mid-year taste of fest or at the very least some outdoor kraakery before we take a summer break. Featuring artists of KRAAK Fest’s near past (Nuke Watch’s shimmering new age, Horacio Pollard’s distorted dance hits) or iterations thereof (Giulio Erasmus’s homegrown post-punk vehicle Handle) or even new additions to the canon (Zoé Paravolo’s warped wisdom, Kiara Govaert’s speaker settings ahead of her first cassette release (!) on KRAAK (!!)). Middelheim beckons, in all its idiosyncratic scope ------>