Konstrukt & Ken Vandermark ‎– Kozmik Bazaar LP
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Konstrukt & Ken Vandermark ‎– Kozmik Bazaar LP

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Turkish free jazzers Konstrukt continue their series of exciting collaborations with Ken Vandermark, one of the key figures of Chicago’s vivid jazz scene. 

After 2 critically acclaimed albums with the japanese avantgarde / noise icon Keiji Haino, Konstrukt return with a new inspiring collaborative mind: Ken Vandermark, who for three decades now has been a highly prolific musician in contemporary jazz and free improvisation. With various groups like NRG Ensemble, Spaceways Inc., The Vandermark 5, Made To Break or The Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet (to name just a few) and various spontaneous collaborations the saxophone / clarinet player has created an impressive catalogue and performed / recorded with the who-is-who of today’s jazz / improv scene.

In november 2018, Konstrukt (who themselves can look back on a long list of class a collaborators like Joe Mcphee, William Parker, Akira Sakata, Marshall Allen) met Vandermark in their homebase Istanbul for a recording session – a match made in heaven that all musicians involved are extremely happy with. The resulting album “Kozmik Bazaar” starts with a reference to Ornette Coleman before turning more and more into a psychedelic trip that goes way beyond the jazz idiom. But what else to expect from such a stellar constellation?

Notes

Korhan Futacı: alto saxophone, instant loops, vocal umut çağlar: electric guitar, synthesizer, gralla, guimbri apostolos sideris: double bass
Berkan Tilavel: drums, electronic percussion
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Ken Vandermark: tenor saxophone, clarinet
Recorded by Ozan Öner at Pür Recording Studio, Istanbul mixed by Korhan Futacı and Umut Cağlar
Mastered & cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, berlin
Cover painting “explosion” by Artur Trojanowski


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