date | venue | time | details |
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January 6, 2022 | Sowieso Weisestraße 24 12049 Berlin Germany |
8:30pm (doors: 8:00pm) | QLH (Quentin Tolimieri: organ; Luca Marini: drums; and Han-earl Park: guitar) with Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen (saxophone). [Details…] [Reserve seat…] |
January 7, 2022 | Secret Location* Berlin Germany * Contact me for details. |
9:00pm (doors: 8:00pm) | QLH (Quentin Tolimieri: organ; Luca Marini: drums; and Han-earl Park: guitar) with Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen (saxophone). Also performing: Dirar Kalash. [Details…] |
January 13, 2022 | Au Topsi Pohl Pohlstraße 64 10785 Berlin Germany |
8:00pm | QLH (Quentin Tolimieri: organ; Luca Marini: drums; and Han-earl Park: guitar). Also performing: Jasper Stadhouders (guitar) and Christian Marien (drums). [Au Topsi program…] |
January 14, 2022 | Petersburg Art Space Kaiserin Augusta Allee 101 10553 Berlin Germany |
8:00pm | QLH (Quentin Tolimieri: organ; Luca Marini: drums; and Han-earl Park: guitar) with |
Wiesbaden Germany |
Details to follow… |
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March 19, 2022 | Gosforth Civic Theatre Regent Farm Road Gosforth Newcastle NE3 3HD England |
7:00pm (doors: 6:30pm) | Han-earl Park (guitar). A solo performance, plus a discussion (with Corey Mwamba) as part of The Sound of Science. Also performing and presenting: Johnny Hunter’s Pale Blue Dot with Mark Hanslip, Seth Bennett, Gemma Bass, Aby Vulliamy and Michael Bardon. Presented by Jazz North East. Free but ticketed. [Details…] [Gosforth Civic Theatre page/tickets…] |
March 20, 2022 | Cafe OTO 18–22 Ashwin Street Dalston London E8 3DL England |
8:00pm | Han-earl Park (guitar), Lara Jones (saxophone) and Pat Thomas (keyboards). £12, £10 advance, £6 members. [Details…] [OTO page/tickets…] |
March 22, 2022 | Hyde Park Book Club 27–29 Headingley Lane Leeds LS6 1BL England |
8:00pm | Han-earl Park (guitar). Also performing: James Banner and Stephanie Lamprea. Presented by Fusebox. £5 (free to Leeds Conservatoire students). Details to follow… |
March 24, 2022 | Unit 44 44 Prussia Street Dublin Ireland |
7:00pm | Han-earl Park (guitar) plus Una Lee (voice and electronic) and rit. (voice and electronics). Presented by Northern Lights Project. [Details…] [Get tickets…] |
March 25, 2022 | Regional Cultural Centre Cove Hill, Port Road Gortlee Letterkenny Ireland |
7:00pm | Han-earl Park (guitar) plus Una Lee (voice and electronic) and rit. (voice and electronics). Presented by Northern Lights Project. [Details…] [Get tickets…] |
March 26, 2022 | Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin 37 Great James Street Derry BT48 7DF N. Ireland |
7:00pm | Han-earl Park (guitar) plus Una Lee (voice and electronic) and rit. (voice and electronics). Presented by Northern Lights Project. [Details…] [Get tickets…] |
March 27, 2022 | The Black Box 8–22 Hill Street Belfast BT1 2LA N. Ireland |
7:00pm | Han-earl Park (guitar) plus Una Lee (voice and electronic) and rit. (voice and electronics). Presented by Northern Lights Project. [Details…] [Get tickets…] |
Performance diary (Belfast, Berlin, Derry, Dublin, Letterkenny, Leeds, London, Münster, Newcastle, Wiesbaden) 102021
date | venue | time | details |
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December 19, 2021 | cuba cultur Achtermannstr. 10–12 48143 Münster Germany |
6:00pm | QLH (Quentin Tolimieri: organ; Luca Marini: drums; and [cuba program…] HAN-EARL PARK’S APPEARANCE CANCELLED. |
January 7, 2022 | KM28 Karl-Marx-Str. 28 12043 Berlin Germany |
TBA | QLH (Quentin Tolimieri: organ; Luca Marini: drums; and Han-earl Park: guitar) with Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen (saxophone). Details to follow… |
January 14, 2022 | Petersburg Art Space Kaiserin Augusta Allee 101 10553 Berlin Germany |
TBA | QLH (Quentin Tolimieri: organ; Luca Marini: drums; and Han-earl Park: guitar) with Catherine Sikora (saxophone). Details to follow… |
January 15, 2022 | TBA Wiesbaden Germany |
TBA | QLH (Quentin Tolimieri: organ; Luca Marini: drums; and Han-earl Park: guitar). Details to follow… |
March 19, 2022 | TBA Newcastle England |
TBA | Han-earl Park (guitar). Details to follow… |
March 20, 2022 | TBA London England |
TBA | Han-earl Park (guitar) plus. Details to follow… |
March 22, 2022 | TBA Leeds England |
TBA | Han-earl Park (guitar). Details to follow… |
March 24, 2022 | TBA Dublin Ireland |
TBA | Han-earl Park (guitar). Details to follow… |
March 25, 2022 | TBA Letterkenny Ireland |
TBA | Han-earl Park (guitar). Details to follow… |
March 26, 2022 | TBA Derry N. Ireland |
TBA | Han-earl Park (guitar). Details to follow… |
March 27, 2022 | TBA Belfast N. Ireland |
TBA | Han-earl Park (guitar). Details to follow… |
STOP PRESS: QLH at Sowieso, Berlin
This coming Friday (October 1, 2021), at 8:30pm (doors: 8:00pm): QLH (Quentin Tolimieri: organ; Luca Marini: drums; and Han-earl Park: guitar) performs at Sowieso (Weisestraße 24, 12049 Berlin). [Reserve seat…]
See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [Sowieso calendar…] [Facebook event…]
Performance diary (Berlin) 092521
date | venue | time | details |
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October 1, 2021 | Sowieso Weisestraße 24 12049 Berlin Germany |
8:30pm (doors: 8:00pm) | QHL (Quentin Tolimieri: organ; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Luca Marini: drums). [Details…] [Sowieso calendar…] [Reserve seat…] |
STOP PRESS: The Names at Schillerpromenade, Berlin
This Friday (July 16, 2021), at 8:00pm: The Names (Heather Frasch: flute; Carina Khorkhordina: trumpet; Koen Nutters: upright bass; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Quentin Tolimieri: melodica), plus Duchamp & Wizard Ashdod, perform as part of the Keith Bar Open Air Music Series (Outside Keith Bar, Schillerpromenade 2, 12049 Berlin). Admission is free.
See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [echtzeitmusik calendar…]
Performance diary (Berlin) 071321
date | venue | time | details |
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July 16, 2021 | Outside Keith Bar Schillerpromenade 2 12049 Berlin Germany |
8:00pm | The Names (Heather Frasch: flute; Carina Khorkhordina: trumpet; Koen Nutters: upright bass; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Quentin Tolimieri: melodica) presented as part of the Keith Bar Open Air Music Series. Also performing: Duchamp & Wizard Ashdod. Free admission. [echtzeitmusik calendar…] |
Appearance cancelled: Birmingham, Cheltenham and London
I am sad to announce that I will unfortunately not be taking part in the events in Birmingham (March 17, 2020), Cheltenham (March 19), and London (March 21 and 22). All the events, however, are still taking place without me, so please support the fantastic community of local musicians and curators.
My warmest thanks to all the artists involved, big thanks to Jamie Dawson for again offering to lend me the use of his guitar amp, and special thanks to Tom Ward, Andrew Woodhead and Chris Cundy for inviting me to perform. I hope we can set up a rematch in the future.
performance diary (Birmingham, Cheltenham, London) 020520
date | venue | time | details |
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March 17, 2020 | The Lamp Tavern Barford Street Birmingham B5 6AH England |
7:30pm | [Fizzle page…] The event is still taking place, but Han-earl Park will no longer be taking part. |
March 19, 2020 | Smokey Joe’s 16 Bennington Street Cheltenham GL50 4ED England |
8:00pm | Chris Cundy (reeds) plus Admission: £5 at the door. The event is still taking place, but Han-earl Park will no longer be taking part. |
March 21, 2020 | waterintobeer Unit 2 Mantle Court 209–211 Mantle Road Brockley London SE4 2EW England |
7:00pm (doors: 6:30pm) | Tom Ward (saxophone) and [BRÅK page…] The event is still taking place, but Han-earl Park will no longer be taking part. |
March 22, 2020 | Hundred Years Gallery 13 Pearson Street London E2 8JD England |
4:00pm (doors: 3.30pm) | [100 Years Gallery page…] The event is still taking place, but Han-earl Park will no longer be taking part. |
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Un trio d’une radicalité absolue (reviews: Eris 136199)
A “control of noise”, “saturated electricity” and “fighting… with the underground”? or “free-wheeling” with experiments in sound injected with lyricism? or “electronic mayhem” with “a full bodied sound”? In among the reviews of Eris 136199’s performance at Jazz em Agosto, David Cristol, writing in Jazz Magazine, follows “a trio of an absolute radicality”, and concludes by discovering “art music!”
Pour la dernière soirée, le directeur artistique Rui Neves nous a réservé un trio d’une radicalité absolue, proposition courageuse voire casse-gueule dans le contexte d’une salle de plusieurs centaines de places…. Et même pour les spectateurs aguerris, il s’est agi sans nul doute du concert le plus difficile d’accès du festival, présentant peu de repères auxquels se raccrocher. Il faut ici saluer la grande majorité des spectateurs, déterminés à suivre les musiciens dans leur recherche ou idée fixe, voir où le voyage va les mener. Le son est magnifiquement restitué. Park joue beaucoup de l’accordage de la main gauche, dans le registre de la basse. Les guitaristes dessinent des paysages métalliques, via un jeu non conventionnel, selon leurs propres codes, multipliant les dissonances…. Catherine Sikora est une révélation, son jeu oblique, sensible et lumineux offrant un contrepoint idéal aux élucubrations crépusculaires de ses partenaires. Le ténor adopte une approche décidément tonale et mélodique, et néanmoins exploratoire. D’un bout à l’autre un set sans concession aucune, dont on ressort essoré, mais ravi que de telles expériences soient tentées. Art music! [Read the rest…]
Meanwhile, Erik Ellestad, reviewing Eris’ most recent album, sketches a verisimilar portrait of the trio (Han-earl Park “functioning as the de facto rhythm section in Eris 136199”; Catherine Sikora’s “unvarnished and unapologetic sound… while at the same time maintaining a core of melodicism”, and Nick Didkovsky expressing “digitally warped washes of static-like sound and angry slashes of melody”):
It is 50-plus minutes of riveting music making from three fantastic and fascinating musicians. I’ve been listening avidly to Eris 136199 all week on my commute and have looked forward to it every day. Wondering what new thing I will discover in Sikora’s technique while at the same time trying to pay attention and tease out which guitarist is playing what.
Obviously, Eris 136199 isn’t Lawrence Welk, however, there is something in the players expressiveness and in their interactions which prevents it from being too harsh or overwhelming.
Rough enough to keep it exciting, yet tender enough to keep you coming back. [Read the rest…]
I think I might want “Eris 136199 isn’t Lawrence Welk” on a T-shirt.
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Han-earl Park at Hošek Contemporary, Berlin
Tomorrow (Sunday, September 15, 2019) at 5:30pm (doors at 5:00pm): Han-earl Park (guitar) performs as part of Improvised & Experimental No. 73 at Hošek Contemporary (MS Heimatland, close to Fisherinsel 3, 10179 Berlin). Also on the program are Simona Blahutová (sound installation), Gloria Damijan (toy piano), and Johnny Chang (viola). Suggested donation: €5–10.
See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [Hošek page…] [Facebook event…]
Thanks: Eris 136199 (London, Lisbon and Dublin, August 2019)
First, my thanks as always to those who came to listen and witness musicking in real-time collisions. It was great to see so many old friends and new faces; to hear from so many of how you made your way into this music. My heartfelt thanks to you for embarking on the journey with us!
I am so very grateful to all our hosts: a big, big, big thanks to Jazz em Agosto for making all this possible. My deepest gratitude to Rui Neves for first inviting this unruly trio to perform at the festival, and to his unerring belief in the necessity of difficult music. Thanks also to the super-professional sound and stage team; to Petra Cvelbar for the awesome photography; to João Brilhante for all the media work; and to the unshakable patience and enthusiasm of Inês Nunes who got this trio from A-to-B and back again (I expect big things in all your future endeavors).
Warmest thanks everyone at The Vortex for their generosity and enthusiasm—what a true community! In particular, thanks to the amazing Kathianne Hingwan for her kindness and generosity, to Kim Macari for the invitation to perform, and to our fantastic sound engineer Ali Ward for the faster-than-light energy. (And of course Nutmeg for greeting the band!)
Thanks to everyone behind the scenes at the Dublin event: to Note Productions (to Matthew Nolan for putting together the program), and to Improvise Music Company (to Aoife Concannon, Adam Nolan, Kenneth Killeen, and, in particular for the Question & Answer, to Caitríona O’Mahony). Thanks also to Zeropunkt (Fergus Cullen, Jamie Davis and Damien Lennon) for graciously sharing the stage with us.
Kudos, Sean Woodlock, mastermind behind Hackney Road Studios for the smoothest, quickest, most professional of setups, and for creating the most musically, technically, logistically and acoustically satisfying studio recording experience I’ve ever had. Truly, if anyone needs a recording, hit Sean up. (And thanks to Colin Webster for recommending the studio.)
Thanks to Laurent Carrier and everyone Colore for handling all the paperwork, and to the tireless Lee Paterson who helped negotiate the details, and guided this musician carefully through the whole paperwork process. You were just above-and-beyond, Lee! (And thanks to Ingrid Laubrock for introducing me to Lee, and to Alex Hawkins and Charles Hayward for BTS consultations.)
Kudos to Paul Acquaro and everyone at Free Jazz, to Mike Borella at Avant Music News, to Dave Foxall at a Jazz Noise, and Tim Owen of _____on Sound for their continued support, and help getting the word out about our music and these performances.
Last, but certainly not least, thanks go to my travel companions, both in musical and geographical space (and in hypothetical lived simulations and dream states). A big thanks to Catherine for the big note, the moments of harmonic serendipity, and the unexpectedly expected interjections; and to Nick for the super-critical noise, the human-controlled virtual reverb chamber, and for the dreamy soundscapes (or is that the sound dreamscapes). Thank you both for observing and noting the synchronicity in our travels (of foxes, of tango, of almost forgotten ancestors, of frozen assets). As we discussed on multiple occasions on the tour, the ensemble is the composition, and it was a pleasure to study this composition more fully with each performance: experiencing the music of changes from energetic play of weight and light (Vortex, London), high-risk explorations of the outer reaches of idiom (Hackney Road, London), games of serendipity and of disjunction (Lisbon), and music of counterpoint and real harmony (Dublin).
By Eris 136199
Eris 136199 (BAF001) [details…]
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar), Catherine Sikora (saxophone) and Nick Didkovsky (guitar).
Track listing: Therianthropy I (≥ 3:43), Therianthropy II (8:56), Therianthropy III (3:55), Therianthropy IV (6:30), Adaptive Radiation I (6:44), Adaptive Radiation II (8:48), Adaptive Radiation III (5:54), Universal Greebly (10:58), Hypnagogia I (8:03), Hypnagogia II (4:45). Total duration ≥ 68:25.
© + ℗ 2018 Han-earl Park.
Anomic Aphasia (SLAMCD 559) [details…]
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar), Catherine Sikora (tenor and soprano saxophones), Nick Didkovsky (guitar; tracks 1 and 5), and Josh Sinton (baritone saxophone and bass clarinet; tracks 2–4).
Track listing: Monopod (27:19), Pleonasm (Metis 9) (17:08), Flying Rods (Metis 9) (7:41), Hydraphon (7:34), StopCock (10:54). Total duration: 70:33.
© 2015 Han-earl Park. ℗ 2015 SLAM Productions.
Tonight: Eris 136199 at Fumbally Stables, Dublin
Tonight (Monday, August 12, 2019), at 8:00pm: the final date of the micro-tour, Eris 136199 (Han-earl Park: guitar; Catherine Sikora: saxophones; and Nick Didkovsky: guitar), presented by Improvised Music Company in association with Note Productions, performs at The Fumbally Stables (Fumbally Lane, Dublin 8). [Get tickets…]
By Eris 136199
Eris 136199 (BAF001) [details…]
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar), Catherine Sikora (saxophone) and Nick Didkovsky (guitar).
Track listing: Therianthropy I (≥ 3:43), Therianthropy II (8:56), Therianthropy III (3:55), Therianthropy IV (6:30), Adaptive Radiation I (6:44), Adaptive Radiation II (8:48), Adaptive Radiation III (5:54), Universal Greebly (10:58), Hypnagogia I (8:03), Hypnagogia II (4:45). Total duration ≥ 68:25.
© + ℗ 2018 Han-earl Park.
Anomic Aphasia (SLAMCD 559) [details…]
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar), Catherine Sikora (tenor and soprano saxophones), Nick Didkovsky (guitar; tracks 1 and 5), and Josh Sinton (baritone saxophone and bass clarinet; tracks 2–4).
Track listing: Monopod (27:19), Pleonasm (Metis 9) (17:08), Flying Rods (Metis 9) (7:41), Hydraphon (7:34), StopCock (10:54). Total duration: 70:33.
© 2015 Han-earl Park. ℗ 2015 SLAM Productions.