“A colorful, sometimes violent and revelatory listening experience that infuses modern aesthetics with the spirit of the ancient…. Ancient and primordial with ideas as open as the night sky….”
— John Morrison, Jazz Right Now
“Park… may just have the specter of drumming giant Rashied Ali guiding his hands. His fingers, palms and wrists tirelessly bounce, skitter, smear, stroke, strum, hammer-on, pull-off and thump his solid-body electric. Considering the rapidity of his technique, the effect is not simply percussive, but utterly drumkit-like and a liberated kit at that….”
— John Pietaro, The New York City Jazz Record
The improvising musician Han-earl Park has been described as “a musical philosopher” and “a delightful shape-shifter” (Brian Morton, Point of Departure) and as a guitarist who “utilize the totality of the guitar’s sonorities” (Stanley Zappa, The New York City Jazz Record). Park performs music that leaps seemingly effortlessly from No Wave skronk to interstellar guitarist-as-drummer virtuosity, from punk jazz energy to delicate broken-glass-shards-of-sound.
In 2021, NEWJAiM Recordings released Of Life, Recombinant, Park’s exploration of the solo guitar as smithereened and recomposed through the studio. Juno 3, his ensemble with Lara Jones and Pat Thomas, performed at the EFG London Jazz Festival in 2023. And, in 2024, Waveform Alphabet released Gonggong 225088, Park’s Berlin-based trio’s spaghetti junction of gentle noise.
Keywords: improvised music, jazz, free jazz, free improvisation, avant-rock, noise, avant-folk, avant-garde, experimental.
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Lineup: Han-earl Park (guitar).
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Artist website: www.busterandfriends.com
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