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Konstrukt

korhan futacı,doruk gönentür,berke can özcan,barlas tan özemek

hard ride

KONSTRUKT & MARSHALL ALLEN
LIVE AT SANT’ANNA ARRESI JAZZ FESTIVAL / LP 
(8mm Records, Portugal)

SIDE A: 01. Introduction / Ateş | 02. Bulut | 
SIDE B: 01. Anakara | 02. Toprak

Korhan Futacı / tenor and alto saxophones, mouthpiece, voice, flutes
Umut Caglar / micromoog, electric organ, electric guitar, percussion, zurna, flutes
Özün Usta / double bass, djembe, cura
Korhan Arguden / drums, old k zildjian cymbals 
special appearance on side two
Marshall Allen / alto saxophone, crumar-steiner evi, casio pocket organ

Recorded live at Sant'anna Arresi Jazz Festival, august 30th, 2013, Sardinia, Italy
Saturn calls, Sant'anna Responds: Ai confini tra sardegna e jazz 2013, 
"for the legacy of Sun Ra & His Arkestra..."

Konstrukt & Marshall Allen - Toprak (from "Live At Sant'Anna Arresi Festival" LP)

Konstrukt & Joe McPhee - Babylon "The First Meeting of Istanbul" 
(Roaratorio Records, USA)

Side A 
Flyswatter (10:32)
Simple Questions / Complex Answers (11:10)

Side B 
Involution (12:20)
Tek’e (10:27)

Joe McPhee: tenor saxophone, pocket trumpet
Korhan Futacı: tenor & alto saxophones, voice, moog theremin
Umut Çaglar: micromoog, electric organ, guitar
Özün Usta: acoustic & upright basses, cura
Korhan Argüden: drums, old k zildjian cymbals

Recorded live at Babylon - Istanbul (March 18th, 2014)
by Ozan Murat (babylon)
Mixed & mastered by Korhan Futacı
Artwork by Umut Çaglar
Special thanks: Ahmet Uluğ (Babylon)

// rest in peace, Mehmet Uluğ //

Konstrukt & Joe McPhee - Involution (from "Babylon" LP)

Live at "Tarcento Jazz" 2014

Korhan Futacı: alto saxophone, flute, zurna, voice, percussion
Umut Çağlar: electric guitar, farfisa organ, tape echo, flute, zurna, percussion
Özün Usta: double bass, percussion
Korhan Argüden: drums, old k zildjian cymbals

Live multi-channel recording at Tarcento Jazz 2014, in Udine, Italy by Giulio Moratti (July 18th, 2014); Mixed & Mastered by Korhan Futacı

Special thanks to HYBRIDA Family (Alessandro Franco, Francesco Tollis, Giulia Spanghero, Federico Pelliccione, Massimiliano Piccardi, Roger Foschia), Ulaş Şalgam (Shalgam Management) and Hans Falb (JazzGalerie - Konfrontationen)

Konstrukt - excerpt from "Live at Tarcento Jazz" LP

KONSTRUKT & WILLIAM PARKER
Live At NHKM - ISTANBUL (September 12th, 2014)

Korhan Futacı: soprano, alto & tenor saxophones, flute,voice
Umut Çağlar: guitar, moog, zurna, bamboo flute, percussion
Özün Usta: double bass, djembe, percussion
Korhan Argüden: drums, old k zildjian cymbals

+ William Parker: double bass, gralla*

Recorded live in Istanbul, Turkey (September 12th, 2014)
At Nazım Hikmet Kültür Merkezi, Kadıköy

* William Parker plays gralla on this part of the concert, a spanish double reed instrument...


Konstrukt & William Parker - excerpt from "Live at NHKM" 2xLP

ISRC: GBMYF1400057
CAT NO: LEX103
Release Date: 
Label: Lex Records

Toronto jazz/hip-hop band BADBADNOTGOOD and Staten Island rap champ Ghostface Killah and have completed a full collaborative album together.  Entitled Sour Soul, the record will be released [add release date] on Lex Records.  Hear lead track, Gunshowers featuring Elzhi (formerly of Slum Village), here: [add SC and/or YT link]  
 
Sour Soul is inspired by 1960s and 70s music - taking inspiration from the recording techniques and production of that era, and eschewing sampling in favour of live instrumentation, BBNG with producer Frank Dukes have created a dramatic, cinematic musical staging for Ghostface’s vivid storytelling.

Sour Soul

Gunshowers (feat. Elzhi)



"Promises" is from Travis Bretzer's new album 'Waxing Romantic', available in LP / CD / Digital formats on February 24(US) and February 23(UK-EU).

www.mexicansummer.com


Travis Bretzer - Promises

ARTIST: BABA COMMANDANT AND THE MANDINGO BAND
TITLE: Juguya
LABEL: SUBLIME FREQUENCIES
FORMAT: LP
CAT#: SF 097LP
RELEASE: February 17, 2015

Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band are a contemporary group from Burkina Faso. Coming from Bobo-Dioulasso, the group is steeped in the Mandingue musical traditions of their ancestral legacy. The enigmatic lead singer Baba Commandant (Mamadou Sanou) is an original and eccentric character who is well respected in the Burkinabé musical community. A sort of punk Faso Dan Fani activist for traditional Mandingo music, Baba continues to redefine the boundaries between traditional and modern. In 1981, he joined the Koule Dafourou troupe as a dancer. Later, he embarked on his current musical direction as a singer, first in Dounia and then in the Afromandingo Band. His current band -- when he's not playing with the now-famous Burkinabé musician Victor Démé -- is the Mandingo Band. At present, he is a practitioner of the Afrobeat style, drawing inspiration from the golden era of Nigerian music. Fela Kuti/Africa 70 and King Sunny Adé are big influences, as is the legendary Malian growler Moussa Doumbia. Baba Commandant plays the ngoni, the instrument of the Donso (the traditional hunters in this region of Burkina Faso and Mali). His audience comprises multiple generations and strata of Burkinabé society; he accordingly adapts his repertoire to his surroundings, which range from cabaret Sundays in Bobo-Dioulasso to the sound systems of Ouagadougou. Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band are a formidable force steeped in Ouagadougou's DIY underground musical culture. Juguya is their sound. Limited edition LP housed in a Stoughton tip-on sleeve.

A1. Tilé
A2. Djanfa
A3. Waso
A4. Folon
B1. Ntijiguimorola
B2. I Kanafo
B3. Siguisso
B4. Juguya

- Sublime Frequencies presents its first release from Burkina Faso: a set of bracing Mandingo rock from contemporary Burkinabé group Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band.
- Enigmatic lead singer Baba Commandant (Mamadou Sanou) draws inspiration from Fela Kuti/Africa 70, King Sunny Adé, and Moussa Doumbia to craft a modern DIY Afrobeat sound with the ngoni, the traditional instrument of Burkinabé and Malian hunters.
- Juguya's release precedes a European tour planned for the spring of 2015.
- Limited edition LP housed in a Stoughton tip-on sleeve.


PREORDER

BABA COMMANDANT AND THE MANDINGO BAND: Juguya (taken from the Juguya LP (Sublime Frequencies))

A Place To Bury Strangers - “We’ve Come So Far” from ‘Transfixiation’ out February 17th, 2015 on Dead Oceans

On Tour Soon: http://aptbs.tumblr.com/2015ustourdates

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A Place To Bury Strangers - “We’ve Come So Far” from ‘Transfixiation’ out February 17th, 2015 on Dead Oceans

A Place To Bury Strangers - "We've Come So Far"

Oren Ambarchi 
'Live Knots' (PAN 53)
2xLP/CD/DL

Live Knots, Oren Ambarchi’s first release for PAN, presents two live realizations of ‘Knots’, the epic centrepiece of his Audience of One (Touch, 2012) release. Built on the interplay between Ambarchi’s swirling, guitar harmonics and the metronomic pulse and shifting accents of Joe Talia’s DeJohnette-esque drumming, the piece merges the organic push and pull of free improvisation with an overarching compositional framework.

‘Tokyo Knots’ presents the complete recording of a duo performance of the piece by Ambarchi and Talia recorded at Tokyo’s legendary SuperDeluxe in March 2013. The performance builds gently on the foundation of Talia’s insistent ride cymbal and the shifting tonal bed of Ambarchi’s rich overtone-drenched guitar, eventually going into a free rock free fall of buzzsaw harmonics and crashing drums. From within the maelstrom, Talia picks up a pulsing motorik rhythm that leads the piece back to where it began, with the addition of the shuddering, elastic tones of a hand-played spring reverb unit.

‘Krakow Knots’, recorded live at Unsound Festival in Krakow in 2013, works with the same basic structure but stretches it out to nearly twice the length and adds strings played by the Sinfonietta Cracovia, led by Eyvind Kang on viola. The strings expand the piece’s textural range with lush chordal blocks, uneasy dissonances and occasional Ligeti-esque swarms of micro-activity, the swelling string tones intensifying the ecstatic nature of the piece as it moves towards its mid-point crescendo in which Ambarchi unleashes a particularly malicious continuum of stuttering harmonic fuzz. The strings then enter with a series of swelling chords, announcing the piece’s final movement, and reaffirming the uniqueness of the tonal and compositional language that Ambarchi has patiently developed over the last two decades, in which the influence of post-minimal composers such as Alvin Curran, Gavin Bryars and David Behrman can be felt alongside the inspiration of raw free jazz, harsh noise and academic psychoacoustics. The final moments of the performance pit Talia and Crys Cole’s amplified objects and spring reverb textures against a field of gently gliding string glissandi before the audience erupts in much-deserved applause.

– Francis Plagne

http://p-a-n.org/

Oren Ambarchi 'Live Knots' Unsound Krakow excerpt (PAN 53)

Dancin' in The Dark

Konstrukt – Molto Bene
 
SIDE A
Mercan                      (08:23)  
Alarm                         (05:53)
SIDE B
ToiToi                         (14:09)
Anjio                          (03:01)
 
Korhan Futacı: alto & tenor saxophones, gralla, flutes, voice, instant loops
Umut Çağlar: electric guitar, micromoog, electric piano, zurna, gralla, flutes, tape echo, rhythmbox
Barlas Tan Özemek: electric bass, bass synth
Berke Can Özcan: drums, electric drum module, percussion
 
Recorded and mixed at OutsideInside Studio, Montebelluna, Italy (August 4th & 5th, 2015) by Matt Bordin. Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering Studio in Chicago, USA. Artwork by Canedicoda.

Alarm (from "Molto Bene" LP/CD)

Konstrukt + Alexander Hawkins / Alan Wilkinson / Daniel Spicer

Korhan Futacı: reeds, flutes
Umut Çağlar: guitar, reeds, percussion
Barlas Tan Özemek: electric bass
Ediz Hafızoğlu: drums, cymbals, percusiion, hang drum

Alexander Hawkins: acoustic piano
Alan Wilkinson: bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
Daniel Spicer: pocket trumpet, reeds, flutes, percussion

Recorded live at Cafe Oto, London/UK (September 12th, 2016) by Shaun Crook.

coming as 2xLP/CD (Omlott) & DL (Otoroku)

Excerpt from "L.O.T.U.S." w/ Alexander Hawkins, Alan Wilkinson, Daniel Spicer

Konstrukt & Keiji Haino
コンストラクト ＆ 灰野敬二
A Philosophy Warping, Little By Little That Way Lies A Quagmire LP
少しずつ曲がっている哲学　その先には湿地がある
Karl Records (DE) coming on December 1st, 2017!

Korhan Futacı:  saxophones, reeds, vocal
Umut Çağlar: synthesizers, reeds, flutes
Berkan Tilavel: electric drums, cymbal
Erdem Göymen: drums, percussion
+
Keiji Haino: electric guitar, vocal, electronics
 
Recorded by Ozan Öner  at Pür Recording Studio, on December 19th, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey. Mixed by Ozan Öner in Istanbul.
Mastering by Rashad Becker in Berlin.

Konstrukt wishes to thank: 
IKSV Salon, Pür Recording Studio, Erce Akaşlıoğlu, Burak Gürpınar, Ozan Öner, Necati Tüfenk (KOD), Zülal Kalkandelen, Ela  Akalın (Translator), Alp Egemen

konstrukt-music.com

A Philosophy Warping, Little By Little That Way Lies A Quagmire

w/ Keiji Haino - The Darkness Of +(Plus) And The Paleness Of –(Minus)... Pt.2

KONSTRUKT
Moroccan Sundown

Korhan Futacı: alto saxophone, kaval; 
Işık Üstündağ: trumpet
Umut Çağlar: guimbri, zurna, gralla, bamboo flutes, percussion; 
Apostolos Sideris: double bass; 
Berkan Tilavel: electronic percussion, cymbal, snare; 
Erdem Göymen: drums, bendir

Recorded by Sinan Sakızlı & Can Aykal at Hayyam Stüdyoları, Istanbul on June 12th, 2017. Mixed and mastered by Korhan Futacı & Umut Çağlar in Riva, Istanbul.

to be released from Holidays Records - April 2108
http://holidaysrecords.it

Oryantal EP.

Konstrukt - Moroccan Sundown (from "Oryantal E.P.")

American Barricade

Konstrukt & Keiji Haino
コンストラクト ＆ 灰野敬二
A Philosophy Warping, Little By Little That Way Lies A Quagmire LP (Live)
少しずつ曲がっている哲学　その先には湿地がある
Karl Records (DE) coming on August 2018!

Korhan Futacı: saxophones, reeds, vocal
Umut Çağlar: synthesizers, reeds, flutes
Berkan Tilavel: electric drums, cymbal
Erdem Göymen: drums, percussion
+
Keiji Haino: electric guitar, vocal, electronics

Recorded live at SalonIKSV by Deniz Sağdıç in Istanbul, Turkey (December 21st, 2016). 
Mixed by Umut Çağlar in Istanbul.
Mastering by Rashad Becker in Berlin.

Konstrukt wishes to thank: 
IKSV Salon, Pür Recording Studio, Erce Akaşlıoğlu, Burak Gürpınar, Ozan Öner, Necati Tüfenk (KOD), Zülal Kalkandelen, Ela Akalın (Translator), Alp Egemen

konstrukt-music.com

Konstrukt & Keiji Haino - excerpt from "A Philosophy Warping... LP" (Live)

Electric Guitar : BARLAS TAN ÖZEMEK
Baritone Saxophone : KORHAN FUTACI
Drums : BERKE CAN ÖZCAN

Klitoristanbul

KONSTRUKT feat. MARHALL ALLEN / HÜSEYİN ERTUNÇ / BARLAS TAN ÖZEMEK
Vibrations Of The Day

1. Through The Asteroids (06.31) 
2. Space Jungle (08.47) 
3. Milkyway (06.63) 
4. March Of The Aliens (11.01) 
5. Supernova (07.01) 
6. The Emperor (03.52)  
7. Sunflower (08.58) 
8. Neptune (10.13) 
9. Spirits (07.54) 

marshall allen / alto sax
korhan futacı / tenor & soprano saxes, voice
umut çaglar / guitar, guitar synth
barlas tan özemek / guitar
hüseyin ertunç / percussion, drums, vibraphones, flute
özün usta / percussion, drums, vibraphones
korhan argüden / drums 

recorded by korhan futacı & barlas tan özemek at atölye, çiftehavuzlar (Istanbul, 30.09.2010)  
mixed by barlas tan özemek & korhan futacı  /
mastering by barlas tan özemek at atölye
artwork by deniz alnıtemiz

Konstrukt / Allen / Ertunç / Özemek - March Of The Aliens (from "Vibrations Of The Day" CD & 2xLP)

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