I’m Joe Krause, a multidisciplinary artist living in Detroit.

Community radio, films, performances, music, city tours, zines, sound design, audio theater, cultural documentation, podcasts and so on. Join my newsketter, follow my socials, smash the things.

Thanks for visiting my Personal Homepage on The World Wide Web.

I’ll be appearing in this show on both evenings as a butterfly playing an accordion in a cherry orchard. Show up early for a good seat!

 
 
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Zelda and the Unibrows – Museum TV Station

Rare live recordings of Zelda and the Unibrows music, with rock band, orchestra and chorus. These come from live performances transmitted via Skype to European galleries as part of Lado Darakhvelidze’s Museum TV Station project.

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Zelda and the Unibrows – Blissful Cessation

“When you die, you become a ghost, and you get to haunt people, and make parts of the room too cold for no reason. ”This EP explores death from the atheist, Catholic, and Buddhist perspective and shifts in mood from light to scary and back again.

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Open Spark Project

This 2012 collaboration with the Tesla Orchestra’s “Open Spark Project” is a presentation of original Zelda and the Unibrows music as performed with bolts of electricity on musical Tesla coils. Paul Szewczyk composed the music – a tribute to Detroit’s elevated rail system, The People Mover – Lisa Raschiatore performed clarinet overdubs, and I arranged and engineered. We also produced this video out of the footage.

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Zelda and the Unibrows – Unreason

For the third album, Zelda and the Unibrows introduce a host of new collaborators and eschew mid-2000s Detroit hipsterdom in an hilarious send-up about “City Kids” that will have you splitting your sides with nostalgia and smug judgement! Don’t miss: “Couch” is mesmerizing! “Adaptive Reuse” is a charming fixer-upper! And “Secret Penis” mystifies critics and scientists alike.

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The Zelda and the Unibrows Podcast

A six-episode experiment with the new-fangled “pod-cast” format. Includes all kinds of goodness unavailable elsewhere including a great ambient piece called “Stretchy Penis,” an hour-long takeover of WPHS, and guest appearances from collaborators.

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Zelda and the Unibrows – Greens

“Greens,” the second Zelda and the Unibrows album, stands as two one-act plays: “Happy Tape,” a charming suite of original music scored to the voices found on a thrift-store cassette circa 1978, and “The Inconceivable Excursions of Captain Spacerocket In The 24th Century,” a rather noisy space opera of sorts.

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Zelda and the Unibrows – Neves-eatnouT

Neves-eatnouT is the 2001 debut album by Zelda and the Unibrows. This “trendy teenage basement opera” made its way through college radio in the U.S. and on CBC-2 in Canada, and inspired many introverted art videos.

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