Juno 3: Proxemics, cassette tape

cassette tape photo: Juno 3: Proxemics (BAF003) by Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas (artwork and photo copyright 2025 Han-earl Park)
© 2025 Han-earl Park

I’m happy to announce that, following a delay at the factory, I am now shipping the companion cassette tape to Proxemics (BAF003). It’s super limited edition, and the recording on cassette presents an, I think, fascinating, alternative perspective to the music of the album.

“So confounding and strange that simply listening to it makes you feel alive.”

— Antonio Poscic (The Quietus)

Masterminded by Berlin-based Korean-American improviser and guitarist Han-earl Park, Juno 3 is his trio with London-based experimental producer, saxophonist, and sound artist Lara Jones, and boundless experimentalist and pioneer of electroacoustics in free improvisation, Pat Thomas. Recorded at Cafe OTO, Proxemics (BAF003) captures the trio’s performance as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival’s outer left field. [Read the rest…]

Please note that this cassette release does not duplicate the digital album, but offers a complement to it. In contrast to the digital download album, the cassette album is the room mic recording of the second set only (corresponding to ‘Proxemics I–VI’). The cassette presents a vérité, ‘bootleg’-vibe documentation of the performance as heard by the audience on the night.

Thanks so, so much to everyone who ordered the tape—I truly appreciate your support, patience and understanding. I’m excited for you to hear the noise on tape!

[About this album…] [Get the download/order the cassette (Bandcamp)…]

Download: €8.
Cassette tape* plus download: €12 plus shipping.

cassette tape photo: Juno 3: Proxemics (BAF003) by Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas (artwork and photo copyright 2025 Han-earl Park)cassette tape photo: Juno 3: Proxemics (BAF003) by Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas (artwork and photo copyright 2025 Han-earl Park)cassette tape photo: Juno 3: Proxemics (BAF003) by Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas (artwork and photo copyright 2025 Han-earl Park)cassette tape photo: Juno 3: Proxemics (BAF003) by Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas (artwork and photo copyright 2025 Han-earl Park)cassette tape photo: Juno 3: Proxemics (BAF003) by Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas (artwork and photo copyright 2025 Han-earl Park)
Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community

Funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community.

Also by Juno 3

disc art (copyright 2023 Ramble Records)

Juno 3 (RAM-163CD) [details…]

Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar), Lara Jones (saxophone and electronics) and Pat Thomas (electronics).

Track listing: Orbital Dusk I (6:04), Orbital Dusk II (4:20), Orbital Dusk III (2:29), Orbital Dusk IV (6:03), Diel Vertical Migration I (6:31), Diel Vertical Migration II (4:38), Diel Vertical Migration III (4:33), Diel Vertical Migration IV (7:36), Metastability (7:24). Total duration: 49:36.

© and ℗ 2023 Ramble Records.

Han-earl Park at Kühlspot, Berlin

This Sunday (March 16, 2025), at 8:30pm (doors: 8pm): Han-earl Park (guitar) performs at Kühlspot Social Club (Lehderstraße 74–79, 13086 Berlin). Also performing are Sofia Borges (drums and percussion), Jonathan Aardestrup (double bass) and Lisa Ullén (piano).

See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [Kühlspot listing…] [Facebook event…]

Out on NEWJAiM Recordings

cover art (copyright 2021 NEWJAiM)

Of Life, Recombinant (NEWJAiM9) [details…]

Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar) with Anne Wellmer (voice on track 4).

Track listing: Game: Mutation (5:38); Naught Opportune (≥ 10:42); Are Variant (≥ 8:06); Of Life, Recombinant (≥ 29:22). Total duration ≥ 53:48.

© 2021 NEWJAiM Recordings.
℗ 2021 Han-earl Park.

Camila Nebbia and Han-earl Park at disfigured rivers, Berlin

This Thursday (March 6, 2025) at 8:00pm: Camila Nebbia (saxophone, effects and visuals), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Gianluca Elia (electronics) will be performing as part of disfigured rivers vol. 5 in Berlin (contact for venue details). Also performing are Tumulus (amplified saxophone), and Marina Cyrino (flute) and Ayşe Hatipoğlu (’cello).

See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [disfigured rivers (Instagram)…]

Out now on Waveform Alphabet

Gonggong 225088 cover art (copyright 2024 Han-earl Park)

Gonggong 225088 (wa008) [details…]

Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar), Yorgos Dimitriadis (percussion and electronics) and Camila Nebbia (saxophone).

Track listing: Autopoiesis I (≥ 10:14), Autopoiesis II (≥ 4:29), Niche Shift I (16:09), Niche Shift II (≥ 4:45), Niche Shift III (4:35), Niche Shift IV (≥ 12:52), Autopoiesis III (3:26), Autopoiesis IV (≥ 5:03), Autopoiesis V (≥ 3:17), Autopoiesis VI (3:37). Total duration ≥ 70:14.

© 2024 Han-earl Park. ℗ 2024 Waveform Alphabet.

updates

03-05-25: Gianluca Elia added to lineup.

Performance diary (Berlin) 022425

upcoming performances
date venue time details
March 6, 2025 Secret Location*
Berlin
Germany
8:00pm Camila Nebbia (saxophone, effects and visuals), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Gianluca Elia (electronics) as part of disfigured rivers vol. 5. Also performing: Tumulus (amplified saxophone), and Marina Cyrino (flute) and Ayşe Hatipoğlu (’cello). [Details…] * DM for venue details.
March 16, 2025 Kühlspot Social Club
Lehderstraße 74–79
13086 Berlin
Germany
8:30pm (doors: 8pm) Han-earl Park (guitar). Also performing: Sofia Borges (drums and percussion), Jonathan Aardestrup (double bass) and Lisa Ullén (piano). [Details…]
[Kühlspot calendar…] [Facebook event…]
April 29, 2025 Richten25
Gerichtstraße 25
13347 Berlin
Germany
8:00pm (doors: 7pm) Kaffe Matthews (live sampling alchemical electronics) and Han-earl Park (guitar). Also performing: Matthias Müller (trombone), Matthias Muche (trombone) and Jeb Bishop (trombone). Details to follow…
July 2025 TBA TBA Juno 3 (Han-earl Park: guitar; Lara Jones: saxophone and electronics; and Pat Thomas: electronics) returns!
Details to follow…

Continue reading “Performance diary (Berlin) 022425”

Out now! Juno 3: Proxemics (BAF003)

Elastic, doxastic collisions—
  hold two thoughts, both true.

Proxemics (BAF003), the latest album from Juno 3 (Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas), is out today! The digital download is available now with the companion cassette tape* to begin shipping on February 15. As I wrote:

I love, love, love this recording, and the camaraderie of the artists (and helpers and supporters behind-the-scenes) involved in its making. If the trio’s first performance in the spring of 2022, caught between lockdowns and post-pandemic ‘normality,’ was about that strange sense of cautious relief and optimism, then this later performance was something altogether more strident, brash, at times harsh and ugly, confrontational and combative. What I hear is Lara punching you unremittingly in the mid-rage gut; Pat throwing down beats of glitchy robotic wasps, and of impossible danceability; and my struggles with an unfamiliar guitar (a silver rocker) that wants to make it all a little too easy.

During the mix, I came to realize this unapologetically unrefined music was probably unreleasable, but I also came to love it more for being delicate as a slab of granite. Listen to it, and think of us. Enjoy. [Read the rest…]

Download the album, and revel in those buzzing, ugly fusions, microsurround pops and spikes, and queasily in tune warbles and waves.

[About this album…] [Get the download/order the cassette (Bandcamp)…]

Download: €8.
Cassette tape* plus download: €12 plus shipping.

Note on the cassette tape


* The cassette tape release does not duplicate the digital album, but offers a complement to it. In contrast to the digital download album, the cassette album is the room mic recording of the second set only (corresponding to ‘Proxemics I–VI’). The cassette presents a vérité, ‘bootleg’-vibe documentation of the performance as heard by the audience on the night.

Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community

Funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community.

Also by Juno 3

disc art (copyright 2023 Ramble Records)

Juno 3 (RAM-163CD) [details…]

Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar), Lara Jones (saxophone and electronics) and Pat Thomas (electronics).

Track listing: Orbital Dusk I (6:04), Orbital Dusk II (4:20), Orbital Dusk III (2:29), Orbital Dusk IV (6:03), Diel Vertical Migration I (6:31), Diel Vertical Migration II (4:38), Diel Vertical Migration III (4:33), Diel Vertical Migration IV (7:36), Metastability (7:24). Total duration: 49:36.

© and ℗ 2023 Ramble Records.

Han-earl Park at Richten25, Berlin

This Saturday (January 4, 2025) at 8:00pm (doors: 7pm): I’ll be playing a solo set at Richten25 (Gerichtstraße 25, 13347 Berlin). Also performing solo sets are Almut Kühne (voice), and Alexander Markvart (various).

See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [Facebook event…]

Out on NEWJAiM Recordings

cover art (copyright 2021 NEWJAiM)

Of Life, Recombinant (NEWJAiM9) [details…]

Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar) with Anne Wellmer (voice on track 4).

Track listing: Game: Mutation (5:38); Naught Opportune (≥ 10:42); Are Variant (≥ 8:06); Of Life, Recombinant (≥ 29:22). Total duration ≥ 53:48.

© 2021 NEWJAiM Recordings.
℗ 2021 Han-earl Park.

Performance diary (Berlin) 121924

upcoming performances
date venue time details
January 4, 2025 Richten25
Gerichtstraße 25
13347 Berlin
Germany
8:00pm (doors: 7pm) Han-earl Park (guitar). Also performing: Almut Kühne (voice), and Alexander Markvart (various). [Details…]
[Facebook event…]

Continue reading “Performance diary (Berlin) 121924”

Proxemics (BAF003)

Proxemics (BAF003) (copyright 2025 Han-earl Park)
Proxemics (BAF003) © 2025 Han-earl Park

Proxemics (BAF003), Juno 3’s latest album is out now! with the digital download available as of January 15, 2025, and the companion cassette tape* shipping as of March 21. Masterminded by Berlin-based Korean-American improviser and guitarist Han-earl Park, Juno 3 is his trio with London-based experimental producer, saxophonist, and sound artist Lara Jones, and boundless experimentalist and pioneer of electroacoustics in free improvisation, Pat Thomas. Recorded at Cafe OTO, Proxemics (BAF003) captures the trio’s performance as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival’s outer left field.

I love, love, love this recording, and the camaraderie of the artists (and helpers and supporters behind-the-scenes) involved in its making. If the trio’s first performance in the spring of 2022, caught between lockdowns and post-pandemic ‘normality,’ was about that strange sense of cautious relief and optimism, then this later performance was something altogether more strident, brash, at times harsh and ugly, confrontational and combative. What I hear is Lara punching you unremittingly in the mid-rage gut; Pat throwing down beats of glitchy robotic wasps, and of impossible danceability; and my struggles with an unfamiliar guitar (a silver rocker) that wants to make it all a little too easy.

During the mix, I came to realize this unapologetically unrefined music was probably unreleasable, but I also came to love it more for being delicate as a slab of granite. Listen to it, and think of us. Enjoy.

[Get the download/cassette (Bandcamp)…]

Download: €8.
Cassette tape* plus download: €12 plus shipping.

cassette tape photo: Juno 3: Proxemics (BAF003) by Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas (artwork and photo copyright 2025 Han-earl Park)cassette tape photo: Juno 3: Proxemics (BAF003) by Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas (artwork and photo copyright 2025 Han-earl Park)cassette tape photo: Juno 3: Proxemics (BAF003) by Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas (artwork and photo copyright 2025 Han-earl Park)cassette tape photo: Juno 3: Proxemics (BAF003) by Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas (artwork and photo copyright 2025 Han-earl Park)cassette tape photo: Juno 3: Proxemics (BAF003) by Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas (artwork and photo copyright 2025 Han-earl Park)

Description

So confounding and strange that simply listening to it makes you feel alive.

— Antonio Poscic (The Quietus)

These spiky yet nuanced confrontations have their own profound logic, relying on messy, punchy, and unsettling conversational interplay that avoid comforting veins and familiar dynamics and transform it into compelling interplay that offers a subversive, resistant kind of empathy and compassion.

— Eyal Hareuveni (salt peanuts*)

☆☆☆☆½

— António Branco (jazz.pt)

Masterminded by Berlin-based Korean-American improviser and guitarist Han-earl Park, Juno 3 is his trio with London-based experimental producer, saxophonist, and sound artist Lara Jones, and boundless experimentalist and pioneer of electroacoustics in free improvisation, Pat Thomas. Recorded at Cafe OTO, Proxemics (BAF003) captures the trio’s performance as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival’s outer left field. Proxemics is the follow-up to the eponymous Juno 3 (RAM-163CD, 2023) described as having “wonderful energy, constant motion, and roiling in noise. And immense amount of grit and power” (Corey Mwamba, Freeness, BBC Radio 3).

Elastic, doxastic collisions—
  hold two thoughts, both true.

The music was recorded with efficiency (and with a boldly creative live-mix) by Kevin Shoemaker, and mixed and mastered for release by Han-earl Park. If the trio’s previous album was an expansive and joyous flow of intergalactic urban transit, then Proxemics is altogether something more prickly, difficult, and at peace with its confrontational nature.

Recommended reading: N. K. Jemisin. The City We Became (Orbit, 2020).

Personnel

Han-earl Park (guitar), Lara Jones (saxophone and electronics) and Pat Thomas (electronics).

Track listing

Derealization I (4:07), Derealization II (4:57), Derealization III (3:52), Derealization IV (6:19), Derealization V (5:55), Derealization VI (3:47), Proxemics I (5:05), Proxemics II (3:54), Proxemics III (6:10), Proxemics IV (7:15), Proxemics V (6:10), Proxemics VI: Rumble (5:13). Total duration: 62:44.

Cassette tape: Proxemics A (18:11), Proxemics B (17:27). Total duration: 35:37.*

Recording details

Music by Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas.

Recorded live November 13, 2023, Cafe OTO, London.

Recorded/live mix by Kevin Shoemaker. Mixed and mastered by Han-earl Park.
Design and artwork by Han-earl Park.

Thanks to On Yee Lo, Fielding Hope and everyone at Cafe OTO, Wesley Stephenson of Jazz North East, Corey Mwamba of Out Front! and a very special thanks to Alex Ward for the loan of his guitar. The performance was presented as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival, and with funding from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community.

© + ℗ 2025 Han-earl Park.

Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community

Funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community.

Note on the cassette tape


* The cassette tape release does not duplicate the digital album, but offers a complement to it. In contrast to the digital download album, the cassette album is the room mic recording of the second set only (corresponding to ‘Proxemics I–VI’). The cassette presents a vérité, ‘bootleg’-vibe documentation of the performance as heard by the audience on the night.

Also by Juno 3

disc art (copyright 2023 Ramble Records)

Juno 3 (RAM-163CD) [details…]

Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar), Lara Jones (saxophone and electronics) and Pat Thomas (electronics).

Track listing: Orbital Dusk I (6:04), Orbital Dusk II (4:20), Orbital Dusk III (2:29), Orbital Dusk IV (6:03), Diel Vertical Migration I (6:31), Diel Vertical Migration II (4:38), Diel Vertical Migration III (4:33), Diel Vertical Migration IV (7:36), Metastability (7:24). Total duration: 49:36.

© and ℗ 2023 Ramble Records.

updates

03-21-25: cassette tape begins shipping.
01-15-25: released!
01-06-25: add video playlist.
02-06-25: added reviews.
02-15-25: cassette delivery delayed. If you’ve already ordered the tape, you should have got an email from me about the delay. If not, please drop me a message.

Coming soon! Juno 3: Proxemics

Coming soon! Proxemics (BAF003), the new album by Juno 3 (Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas). Proxemics (BAF003) will be available as a full-length, digital download album, and a limited edition companion cassette tape.

The music is strident, brash, at times harsh and ugly, confrontational and combative—it’s unlike anything else I’ve been a part of—and I’m very excited to share it with you, and very, very curious to know what you make of it. More soon!

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Thanks to On Yee Lo, Fielding Hope and everyone at Cafe OTO, Wesley Stephenson of Jazz North East, Corey Mwamba of Out Front! and a very special thanks to Alex Ward for the loan of his guitar. The performance was presented as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival, and with funding from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community.

Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community

Funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community.

Also by Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas

disc art (copyright 2023 Ramble Records)

Juno 3 (RAM-163CD) [details…]

Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar), Lara Jones (saxophone and electronics) and Pat Thomas (electronics).

Track listing: Orbital Dusk I (6:04), Orbital Dusk II (4:20), Orbital Dusk III (2:29), Orbital Dusk IV (6:03), Diel Vertical Migration I (6:31), Diel Vertical Migration II (4:38), Diel Vertical Migration III (4:33), Diel Vertical Migration IV (7:36), Metastability (7:24). Total duration: 49:36.

© and ℗ 2023 Ramble Records.

Gonggong 225088 at Kühlspot, Berlin

Next week (Tuesday, November 19, 2024), at 8:30pm (doors: 8pm): Dream a little noisy, sweetly disquieting dream with Gonggong 225088 as Han-earl Park (guitar), Yorgos Dimitriadis (percussion and electronics) and Camila Nebbia (saxophone) perform at Kühlspot Social Club (Lehderstraße 74–79, 13086 Berlin).

Blue-green iridescence
(Crunch and more scatter)
A vacuum of warning

Here be dragons.

It’s been a while since Gonggong played in the trio’s hometown, and it’s been longer since we’ve had an opportunity to really stretch out (we’ll be playing two complete sets at Kühlspot). It’s always a joy to be performing with Camila and Yorgos, and I am super excited to see where the music takes us (and where we take the music). One of the many things I love about this group is how everyone is inviting the others to occupy spaces by actively creating constantly shifting gaps and cracks in the arrangement and moment-by-moment composition.

See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [Kühlspot listing…] [Facebook event…]

Out now on Waveform Alphabet

Gonggong 225088 cover art (copyright 2024 Han-earl Park)

Gonggong 225088 (wa008) [details…]

Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar), Yorgos Dimitriadis (percussion and electronics) and Camila Nebbia (saxophone).

Track listing: Autopoiesis I (≥ 10:14), Autopoiesis II (≥ 4:29), Niche Shift I (16:09), Niche Shift II (≥ 4:45), Niche Shift III (4:35), Niche Shift IV (≥ 12:52), Autopoiesis III (3:26), Autopoiesis IV (≥ 5:03), Autopoiesis V (≥ 3:17), Autopoiesis VI (3:37). Total duration ≥ 70:14.

© 2024 Han-earl Park. ℗ 2024 Waveform Alphabet.

Pre-order: Thoughts of Trio

Thoughts Of Trio cover art (copyright 2024 Aidan Baker)
Thoughts Of Trio (ACU 1080 / C344) © 2024 Aidan Baker

Thoughts Of Trio by Aidan Baker, Han-earl Park and Katharina Schmidt is now available to pre-order from attenuation circuit (CD/digital) and Cruel Nature Records (cassette/digital).

The Names at PAS and Richten25, Berlin

The Names returns to Berlin this month! The Names (Heather Frasch: flute; Carina Khorkhordina: trumpet; Koen Nutters: upright bass; Han-earl Park: guitar; Quentin Tolimieri: melodica; and Gert-Jan Prins: percussion) will be performing:

See the performance diary for up-to-date info.

Out on Waveform Alphabet

The Names: The Alte Münze Sessions (cover artwork)

The Alte Münze Sessions [details…]

Personnel: Heather Frasch (flute), Carina Khorkhordina (trumpet), Koen Nutters (upright bass), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Quentin Tolimieri (bass and soprano melodicas). Melodies, harmonies, and basic arrangements by Koen Nutters.

Track listing: GEL (George E. Lewis) 6:20, QT (Quentin Tolimieri) 10:08, AYD (Angela Davis) 6:20, GMGS (Germaine Sijstermans) 14:15. Total duration 37:03.

© + ℗ 2023 Waveform Alphabet.