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Konstrukt & Peter Br?tzmann: The Message: Live At Kargart

By Mark Corroto
February 6, 2016
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Konstrukt & Peter Brötzmann: The Message: Live At Kargart

Breathe, just keep breathing, you tell yourself as the latest offering from the free jazz saviors spins on the turntable. Pressed in an edition of just 200 LPs, The Message: Live At Kargart is a treasure of sound. Actually it is more than just sound, it is an independent self-contained space craft carrying music from a future. A time once prophesied by the likes of

John Coltrane

saxophone
1926 - 1967

" data-original-title="" title="">John Coltrane &

Rashied Ali

drums
1935 - 2009

" data-original-title="" title="">Rashied Ali,

Frank Lowe

saxophone, tenor
1943 - 2003

" data-original-title="" title="">Frank Lowe,

Sunny Murray

drums
1937 - 2017

" data-original-title="" title="">Sunny Murray,

Art Ensemble Of Chicago

band / ensemble / orchestra

" data-original-title="" title="">Art Ensemble Of Chicago, and

Sun Ra

piano
1914 - 1993

" data-original-title="" title="">Sun Ra. Built upon the persistence of rhythm, this live concert captured in Istanbul, February 2014, reunites the Turkish free jazz collective with the legendary saxophonist

Peter Brötzmann

woodwinds
1941 - 2023

" data-original-title="" title="">Peter Br?tzmann.

This release follows two recordings Konstrukt made with the seventy-something free jazz pioneer, Eklisia Sunday (Not Two, 2013) and Dolunay (Re:konstruKt, 2011). The outfit has also worked with

Evan Parker

saxophone, soprano
b.1944

" data-original-title="" title="">Evan Parker,

Joe McPhee

woodwinds
b.1939

" data-original-title="" title="">Joe McPhee,

William Parker

bass
b.1952

" data-original-title="" title="">William Parker, and

Marshall Allen

saxophone, alto
b.1924

" data-original-title="" title="">Marshall Allen.

Each new performance finds the collective expanding their musical dominion and lexicon. Here they build each part upon the tenor saxophone, or clarinet and taragato of Brotzmann. The music is a cloverleaf of differing levels of expression. A merger of Eastern sound with American blues, bathed in expansive guitar and African rhythm. Eyes closed, the vibe of

Miles Davis

trumpet
1926 - 1991

" data-original-title="" title="">Miles Davis' electric period bubbles up, then the spirit of

Albert Ayler

saxophone, tenor
1936 - 1970

" data-original-title="" title="">Albert Ayler's march invades. Each part is fused by ?z��n Usat's weighty pulse and the collective's demand for a percussive drive or some electric wizardry.

"Part III" opens with the blues. Br?tzmann revisits his appetite, maybe nostalgia, for the New World's greatest contribution to music. He tears huge swaths of tenor before being joined by percussion and Korhan Futaci's tenor. The piece operates like an exorcism for the soul of Robert Johnson. This is legendary music my friends.

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Track Listing

Side A: Part I; Side B: Part II; Side C: Part III; Side D: Part IV.

Personnel

Konstrukt

various

Peter Br?tzmann: tenor saxophone, clarinet, tarogato; Korhan Futaci: tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, percussion; Umut ?aglar: electric guitar, synthesizer micromoog, violin, kalimba, percussion; ?z��n Usat: double bass, acoustic bass, djembe, percussion; Korhan Arg��den: drums, old K Zildjian cymbals.

Album information

Title: The Message: Live At Kargart | Year Released: 2016 | Record Label: Holidays Records

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