Konstrukt feat. Thurston Moore - Turkish Belly

 

Certain musical rendevous just have to happen sooner or later. Konstrukt with Thurston Moore is one of those. Improvising free jazz soaked Istanbul ensemble and a legend of NYC no wave scene and later Sonic Youth member, both busy with multiple collaborative work met last year before epidemics broke out and shut down everything for a while. 

"Turkish belly" has a temperature of punk and the consistency of free improv - a persistence worth having when you experiment with instruments and form of music. Jazz and experimental rock music that come here together and something of a natural development are stinging, biting and scratching coming into wave form of ebbs and flows. A good example of what a live improv should sound like when it's done honestly.

Korhan Futacı: alto sax, flute, voice, loops

Umut Çağlar: electric guitar, synthesizer

Apostolos Sideris: electric bass, upright bass

Berkan Tilavel: drums

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Thurston Moore: electric guitar

Recorded live at SalonIKSV (21.02.2020), Istanbul.

Mixed by Kıvılcım Konca.

Mastered + vinyl cut by Helmut Erler at D&M, Berlin.

Artwork concept by Umut Çağlar

layout by kaidoh

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