Caglar Umut Emek

KONSTRUKT has been founded in 2008 in Istanbul, Turkey. The major breakthrough for the band was to record with Brötzmann the same year.
Recently, the band has been garnering attention not only at home in Turkey but in European improvised music circles. They have recorded with Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Akira Sakata, Marshall Allen, Evan Parker, Alfred Harth, Eugene Chadbourne, Alexander Hawkins, Okay Temiz, Hüseyin Ertunç and performed at various prestigious international festivals/clubs as Babylon Istanbul, Akbank Jazz Festival (Turkey), Saalfelden Jazz Festival & Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf (Austria), Krakow Jazz Autumn & Jazztopad (Poland), Sant'Anna Arresi Jazz Festival & Tarcento Jazz, Villa Ada Roma, Castelfranco (Italy), Radialsystem (Germany), Cafe Oto & Islington Mill (UK, Jazz Im Goethe Garten (Portugal).