Review Summary: Southern comfort fucking sucks.
A Philosophy Warping, Little by Little That Way Lies a Quagmire; try and say it as fast as you can several times without making a mistake. Like your attempt at properly saying the full title a la the good old-fashioned tongue twister, this new studio collaboration between Turkish avant-garde jazzsters Konstrukt and legendary Japanese free improvisation guitarist Keiji Haino is quite the handful. A recording that encapsulates two chaotic freeform compositions, “All Things Will Be Reduced to Equal” and “The Darkness of Plus and The Paleness of Minus Drag Each To An Identical Distance And Reanalyse Blending In Some Pain”, the forty-minute LP shows the two factions flexing their improvisational muscles, letting loose unto the world some utterly manic playing and frightening howling for extra measure, as provided by Haino. A jazz blueprint is present on
Philosophy Warping, guiding the needle-sharp guitar and shrieking saxophone amidst other overblown instrumentation, shrieked vocalizations, belching electronica, blazing hot percussion, and other curios to be found within this record.
Philosophy Warping daringly warps the boundaries between jazz, electronics, and noise – a record that will perhaps be forgotten outside the collaborator’s separate fanbases, but a record that manages to push the limits of the genres it delves into nonetheless.
