Kozmik Bazaar, by Konstrukt + Ken Vandermark

Kozmik Bazaar

by Konstrukt + Ken Vandermark

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Rick Mathis The Turkish improvisational group Konstrukt is joined by creative music master Ken Vandermark on what is absolutely one of my favorite albums to come out this year! Creative juices flow all through this music!!! 😎

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	1.	Diggin That Harmolody 05:01
	2.	Semazen 05:22
	3.	East of West, West of East 05:44
	4.	Ex-cess 02:29
	5.	Bammm! 04:43
	6.	Cocoon 07:15

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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. “Kozmik Bazaar” is available as 180gr LP and DL.

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: PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE, HAMID DRAKE, FRED ANDERSON, PAUL LYTTON, JOE MORRIS THE EX, AXEL DÖRNER, MATS GUSTAFSSON, JOE
MCPHEE, ZU, PETER BRÖTZMANN, PAUL LOVENS, LASSE
MARHAUG, YAKUZA, KEVIN DRUMM, and many more.

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, EVAN PARKER, THURSTON MOORE or ALEXANDER HAWKINS) 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?

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released September 27, 2019

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 Çağlar
Mastered & cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin
Cover painting “Explosion” by Artur Trojanowski

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