The “intense exchange between these two gifted improvisers.” Bruce Lee Gallanter of Downtown Music Gallery reviews Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park’s ‘Numbers’ (CS 201 cd): Featuring Richard Barrett on electronics and Han-earl Park on guitar. Richard Barrett is a UK composer as well as an improvising electronic musician who plays in Furt, Forch and with [...]
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reminder: Han-earl Park at the Downtown Music Gallery, New York
This Sunday (April 1, 2012), at 7:00 pm: a solo set by Han-earl Park (“Solo Electric Guitar from World Traveling Improviser” according to Bruce Lee Gallanter), preceded at 6:00 pm by an ‘April Fool’s Day Mystery Set’ (“Mysterious UK Trumpeter & JOSH SINTON – Baritone Sax”), at the Downtown Music Gallery (13 Monroe Street, New [...]
thanks: McMullen-Park (DMG) and Park-Sikora (Brecht Forum), New York
A quick note of thanks to all involved in the first two performances of 2012. Thanks to Bruce Lee Gallanter and Manny ‘Lunch’ Maris at the Downtown Music Gallery for the open invite, for hosting the performance, and for their support over the years. Seriously, go to the DMG and get yourself a record (maybe [...]
CD reviews: io 0.0.1 beta++
First set of reviews of the CD ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) including Beppe Colli’s take in which the “flesh-and-blood musicians” (Han-earl Park, Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder) demonstrate “excellent rapport” and “a good dose of telepathy”, while the machine musician (io 0.0.1 beta++) “works as a valuable stimulus for its fellow musicians”: Closing track [...]
Downtown Music Gallery: Paul Dunmall and Han-earl Park, ‘Boolean Transforms’
Bruce Lee Gallanter (Downtown Music Gallery) takes some time to say some nice things about ‘Boolean Transforms’ by Paul Dunmall and myself [more info on this recording…]. The intensity & close-knit interaction has increased to a near boil, simmering hotter and hotter…. [The] more I hear the more the sympathetic counter-balance comes closer and even [...]
Downtown Music Gallery: Dunmall-Park-Sanders-Smith
Bruce Lee Gallanter of the Downtown Music Gallery has some nice things to say about the Park-Dunmall-Sanders-Smith CD [More info on this recording…]. Here’s, for example, is his take on the Park-Sanders duet: Careful, crafty and well-played with that restrained yet fractured guitar that sounds so good. Han-Earl sound seems to be in between Derek [...]





