A Philosophy Warping, Little by Little That Way Lies a Quagmire cover

A Philosophy Warping, Little by Little That Way Lies a Quagmire

Released

Konstrukt are an avant-garde quartet from Turkey who have collaborated with a wide range of free music luminaries including saxophonists Peter Brötzmann, Evan Parker, Akira Sakata, Marshall Allen and Joe McPhee; bassist William Parker; guitarist Thurston Moore; and many others, both live and on record. In 2016, they invited Keiji Haino to Istanbul for a recording session and a concert, yielding a studio album and a live album, both bearing the same title. On this, the studio document, they draw him into a surprisingly repetitive, groove-oriented soundworld. The opening track, divided into three sections, has an almost Krautrock feel, with looping percussion, echoplexed voices, sax solos, and Haino alternately crooning or shouting. The second piece, another three-part suite, is less structured and more explosive, with Haino’s face-scraping guitar at the center of the storm.

Phil Freeman

Suggestions
Hamada cover

Hamada

Nils Petter Molvær
Live At Downtown Music Gallery cover

Live At Downtown Music Gallery

Keiji Haino, Loren Connors
On the Corner cover

On the Corner

Miles Davis
Halo cover

Halo

Bill Laswell, Andy Hawkins, Azonic
Old and New Dreams cover

Old and New Dreams

Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell, Dewey Redman, Don Cherry
Live in Vilnius cover

Live in Vilnius

David S. Ware Quartet
Dragon’s Head cover

Dragon’s Head

Mary Halvorson