…ale, Scatter, and Nova), liner notes and artwork released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Please attribute the recordings to Han-earl Park and Franziska Schroeder, the liner notes to Áine Sheil, and the artwork to Han-earl Park. about the performers Improviser, guitarist and constructor Han-earl Park has been working within/from/around traditions of fuzzily idiomatic, on occasion experim…
…endipity and contradiction. Eris 136199 is the noisy, unruly complexity of composer, computer artist and guitarist Nick Didkovsky, the corporeal, cyborg virtuosity of constructor and guitarist Han-earl Park, and the no-nonsense melodic logic of composer and saxophonist Catherine Sikora. Together, Didkovsky, Park and Sikora forges an improvisative space where melody can be melody, noise can be noise, meter can be meter, metal becomes metal, bluegra…
…but who, perhaps, is there in the recordings in spirit.) [Bandcamp page…] [Download now…] Recommended price: €8+ Unlike previous download releases from busterandfriends.com, this one is hosted at Bandcamp, and available as a ‘name your price’ album. Although you can download the recording for free (name €0 as your price) with certain restrictions, please consider paying at least the recommended price. Your generosity will help support the performe…
…e. With the performers aiming to ‘trip up’ each other, the improvisation becomes a complex collective rhythmic structuring. Interrupting Continua: fractured accelerandi and decelerandi. A significant reengineering of Braxton’s ‘accordion time,’ in its simple form, performers alternately ramp up and ramp down the underlying pulse of their playing. When a performer perceives their pulse to lock with another performer’s, the performer jumps to anothe…
…Thanks so very much to Morgan and to The Sound Projector for the wonderful review. It’s the kind of review that would’ve persuaded me to go get the album right then and there 🙂 (Plus, I think “a kind of melding of prog-jazz and No-Wave” might be tied as my favorite description of the album.) [About this album…] [Get the CD/download (Bandcamp)…] [All reviews…] CD: €11 minimum (‘name your price’) plus shipping.*† Download: €8 minimum (‘name your pri…
…and Mathilde 253, for example) are also available as downloads. Also, see downloads page for download releases hosted at busterandfriends.com or hanearlpark.bandcamp.com. Two+ Bagatelles [more…] Performers: Han-earl Park (guitar). [Get it via Bandcamp…] © + ℗ 2019 The Vortex / Han-earl Park. artillery (VMDL11) [more…] Performers: Han-earl Park (guitar) and Richard Scott (electronics). [Get it via Bandcamp…] © + ℗ 2011. as sideman (selected) QLH O…
…s and deserves more than a quick listen….” [About this album…] [Get the CD/download (Bandcamp)…] [All reviews…] CD: €11 minimum (‘name your price’) plus shipping.*† Download: €8 minimum (‘name your price’).† * Limited edition glass-mastered CD. CD includes additional material (liner notes, artwork, etc.) not included in the download version of the album. *† Both digital and physical purchases give you streaming via the free Bandcamp app, and optio…
…b.ii, sohoaxpne giautr dmrus b.iii) and artwork released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Please attribute the album to Paul Dunmall, Han-earl Park and Mark Sanders, recording engineering to Chris Trent, and the artwork to Han-earl Park. note: above photomontage copyright respective photographers. about the performers For thirty years Paul Dunmall has carved out a reputation for himself…
…great improvisers. Sikora works in a broad range of settings, from highly complex composed music, to folk songs, to free improvisation. Regular collaborations include those with Eric Mingus, Brian Chase, Han-earl Park, Enrique Haneine, Christopher Culpo, Ursel Schlicht and Ross Hammond, as well as actively pursuing solo performance. Sikora has toured in the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico and Australia. She was a featured soloist in Eric Mi…
…136199 isn’t Lawrence Welk” on a T-shirt. [About this album…] [Get the CD/download (Bandcamp)…] [All reviews…] CD: €11 minimum (‘name your price’) plus shipping.*† Download: €8 minimum (‘name your price’).† * Limited edition glass-mastered CD. CD includes additional material (liner notes, artwork, etc.) not included in the download version of the album. *† Both digital and physical purchases give you streaming via the free Bandcamp app, and optio…
…y as an improviser, is spent in preparation; off-stage, in practice and in study. Testing things out, sometimes speculatively, sometimes with a particular goal in mind, sometimes creating studies to more clearly define a problem or problematic; these exercises and studies can help me hone in on a particular technique or strategy, they can help me discover better ways of getting from A-to-B…. But sometimes the creative detritus can be unplanned and…
……] — Ken Waxman (JazzWord) How’s your Italian? Romualdo Del Noce apprently compares us to the four musketeers: Ronzante, provocatorio, mai davvero eccessivo ma comunque sfuggente, il contributo di questi quattro moschettieri non è eccepibile sul piano del coinvolgimento, testimoniando un action-playing contemporaneamente colto, “palestrato” e pregno di flussi idiosincrasici. [Read the rest…] — Romualdo Del Noce (Jazz Convention) Mathilde 253’s epo…
