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March 22, 2011

performance diary 03-22-11 (Cork, Dublin)

upcoming performances
date	venue	time	details
March 30, 2011	Half Moon Theatre Half Moon Street Emmets Place Cork, Ireland	8:00pm	Performances by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)). Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from the UCC School of Music and the Cork Opera House. Tickets: €11 (€6) from the Cork Opera House. [Get tickets…] [Details…] [facebook event…]
March 31, 2011	Kevin Barry Room National Concert Hall Earlsfort Terrace Dublin 2, Ireland	8:30pm	Performances by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)), plus Paul G. Smyth (piano). Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from Note Productions and the National Concert Hall. Tickets: €12 (€10) from the National Concert Hall Box Office. [Get tickets…] [Details…] [facebook event…]
April 4, 2011	The Roundy Castle Street Cork, Ireland	9:00pm (doors: 8:45pm)	Performance by Catherine Sikora (saxophones), Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Jeffrey Weeter (drums and electronics). Admission: €10/5. [Details…] [facebook event…]

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March 21, 2011

reminder: Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (Cork and Dublin, 2011)

Next week (March 30 and March 31, 2011): Performances in Cork and Dublin, Ireland, by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward: drums, percussion and melodica; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Ian Smith: trumpet and flugelhorn). [Details…]

Cork, March 30, 2011: Performance by Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (and amplification by Alex Fi ennes) at the Half Moon Theatre (Cork Opera House, Emmet Place).
[performance diary entry] [facebook event page]
Tickets: €11 (€6) from corkoperahouse.ie or +353 (0)21 427 0022. [Get tickets…]
Dublin, March 31, 2011: Performance by Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, plus Paul G. Smyth, at the Kevin Barry Room (National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2).
[performance diary entry] [facebook event page]
Tickets: €12 (€10) from the National Concert Hall Box Office, tel: +353 (0)1 417 0000; fax: +353 (0)1 475 1507; email: info@nch.ie. [Get tickets…]

See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [Details about events/tour…]

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith will also speak on ‘Ankhrasmation: A Systemic Music Language for Creative Music’ as part of the UCC Music Research Seminar Series. The talk is free, open to the public, and takes place at the UCC Music Building (Sundays Well, Cork) at 2:00 pm on 30 March.

Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from UCC School of Music, Note Productions, the National Concert Hall and the Cork Opera House.

March 7, 2011

recording: Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park

Han-earl Park and Richard Barrett (original photos by Stephanie Hough and Luis Neuenhofer)

Recording this week at the Institute of Sonology (Den Haag, The Netherlands): Richar d Barrett (electronics) and Han-earl Park (guitar). Should be fun.

February 25, 2011November 3, 2021

Jazzwise: Mathilde 253

Daniel Spicer gives Mathilde 253 (SLAMCD 528) a thumbs up in the current issue of Jazzwise (issue 150, March 2011):

This new improvising group… draws disparate personalities into one eccentric orbit. Han-Earl Park, a guitarist of Korean descent, residing in Ireland, is as at home in underground Noise as he is dueting with free jazz heroes like Paul Dunmall. Trumpeter Ian Smith is a stalwart of the London improv scene and drummer Charles Hayward is best known for his work with seminal post-Punk experimenters This Heat. On these live recordings they generate a surprising amount of heat. Park uses pedals to smudge and smear chords or rolls out strange robotic grumblings, a technician playing electricity as much as the guitar. Smith has a high, taut attach, like a more tuneful version of Donald Ayler’s pure energy. And Hayward… makes a good fist of playing freely…. Veteran saxophonist Coxhill rounds it out to a quartet for two tunes, making this a very satisfying debut.

— Daniel Spicer (Jazzwise)

Mathilde 253’s eponymous debut CD (SLAMCD 528) available on SLAM Productions. [More info…] [All reviews…] [Get the CD…]

February 24, 2011

tickets available: Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (Cork and Dublin, 2011)

Tickets are now available for the performances in Cork and Dublin, Ireland, by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward: drums, percussion and melodica; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Ian Smith: trumpet and flugelhorn). [Details…]

Cork, March 30, 2011: Performance by Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith at the Half Moon Theatre (Cork Opera House, Emmet Place).
[performance diary entry] [facebook event page]
Tickets: €11 (€6) from corkoperahouse.ie or +353 (0)21 427 0022. [Get tickets…]
Dublin, March 31, 2011: Performance by Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, plus Paul G. Smyth, at the Kevin Barry Room (National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2).
[performance diary entry] [facebook event page]
Tickets: €12 (€10) from the National Concert Hall Box Office, tel: +353 (0)1 417 0000; fax: +353 (0)1 475 1507; email: info@nch.ie. [Get tickets…]

See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [Details about events/tour…]

Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from UCC School of Music, Note Productions, the National Concert Hall and the Cork Opera House.

February 23, 2011

thanks: Birmingham, Edinburgh and London*2

Thanks to all those hosting and organizing the performances: Mike Hurley and the rest of the Fizzle gang, Sibyl Madrigal of Boat-ting, Matthew Collings (who also sourced the tools for a mid-tour kluge repair of my amplifier), and the Lewisham Arthouse. Kudos to Reka Sanders, Joe Hope and Han-ter Park for putting a roof over this itinerant musician.

Big thanks to Paul Dunmall and Mark Sanders for the high-energy, musical workout, to Owen Green for introducing me to the musical (and comical) applications of a cardboard box, to Pat Thomas for his skill and wit, to Lol Coxhill for being the inimitable Lol Coxhill, and to the rest of Mathilde 253—to Charles Hayward and Ian Smith—for pushing and pulling into ever more fascinating musical spaces.

Last but not least, thanks to all who came to listen/watch.

February 23, 2011November 3, 2021

more CD reviews: Mathilde 253

After some glowing reviews (including one from Brian Morton in Signal to Noise [read it…] and another from Guillaume Belhomme in Le son du grisli [read it…]), Mathilde 253 has got a couple of more careful, measured responses:

…A bustling, talkative seventy-four minutes made up of angular, Baileyesque electric guitar, some fantastic drum splashes mixed with occasional bursts of less traditional percussive sounds such as the small metallic chimes heard in the opening seconds of the album, and the chattery, conversational style of the trumpet and horn. …The playing here is very fine, a tightly woven mass of sounds with no one real dominating voice but each musician expressive and energetic. The music is all about the conversation, but a real heart-on-the-sleeve collision course of a conversation, but nevertheless the result of the musicians listening to one another and responding. The addition of Coxhill’s softer soprano on the last two pieces do slow the music a little, but the jazz credentials remain. If the music’s progression is a little less choppy then melody and hints at standardised rhythm creep in, but the improvised discussion carries on, perhaps the words are less heated but the debate remains of interest. [Read the rest…]

— Richard Pinnell (The Watchful Ear)

My favorite tracks are the last two, in which the group is joined by saxophone legend Lol Coxhill. The four minute guitar/sax duet at the beginning of Track 6 is inspired; the two really seem to be conversing with one another. [Read the rest…]

— Max Level (KFJC 89.7 FM)

Mathilde 253’s eponymous debut CD (SLAMCD 528) available on SLAM Productions. [More info…] [All reviews…] [Get the CD…]

February 20, 2011

reminder: Mathilde 253 with Lol Coxhill at Boat-ting

Mathilde 253 (Han-earl Park, Charles Hayward and Ian Smith), Cafe OTO, London, April 18, 2010 — Mathilde 253 (Cafe OTO, London, April 18, 2010). Photo © 2010 Seán Kelly

Tomorrow night (Saturday, February 21, 2011), at 8:00pm: Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)) perform with Lol Coxhill (saxophone) plus Sharon Gal (voice), Alex Ward (guitar) and Steve Noble (drums); Red Start (Noel Taylor (clarinet), Benedict Taylor (viola) and Noura Sanatian (violin)); and Sibylline Sisters (Sibyl Madrigal (poetry), Aromorel Weston (voice) and Kay Grant (voice)) presented by Boat-ting. The event takes place at Bar & Co. (Temple Pier, Embankment, London WC2R, England). Admission is £6/4. [Performance diary entry…] [Boat-ting page…]

February 19, 2011

tonight: Mathilde 253 with Pat Thomas plus Zolan Quobble

Tonight (Saturday, February 19, 2011), at 8:00pm: Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)) perform with Pat Thomas (synthesizer) plus Zolan Quobble (spoken word) at the Lewisham Arthouse (140 Lewisham Way, London SE14, England). Admission is £5. [Details…]

February 16, 2011

performance: Han-earl Park, Matthew Collings, Owen Green (Edinburgh, 2011)

This Friday (February 18, 2011) at 8:00pm: experimental music performances by Han-earl Park, Matthew Collings and Owen Green. The event takes place at St Cecilia’s Hall (Niddry Street, Cowgate, Edinburgh EH1, Scotland). Recommended donation: £2. [performance diary entry] [facebook event page]

February 14, 2011

reminder: Paul Dunmall, Han-earl Park and Mark Sanders at Fizzle

Paul Dunmall, Han-earl Park and Mark Sanders (original photos: HeP by Stephanie Hough; and MS by Andrew Putler)

Tomorrow night (Tuesday, February 15, 2011), at 9:00pm: Performance by Paul Dunmall (saxophones), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Mark Sanders (drums) presented by Fizzle. The event takes place at The Lamp Tavern (Barford Street, Birmingham B5, England). Admission is £5. [Details…]

February 11, 2011

flyer: Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (Cork and Dublin, 2011)

Flyers now released for the performances in Cork and Dublin, Ireland, by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward: drums, percussion and melodica; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Ian Smith: trumpet and flugelhorn).

Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith 2011 flyer (copyright 2011 Han-earl Park and unknown photographer) click to download PDF… — flyer © 2011 Han-earl Park and unknown photographer (click to download PDF…)

Performances are as follows:

Cork, March 30, 2011: Performance by Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith at the Half Moon Theatre (Cork Opera House, Emmet Place).
Tickets: €11 (€6) from the Cork Opera House. [Get tickets…]
[performance diary entry] [facebook event page]
Dublin, March 31, 2011: Performance by Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, plus Paul G. Smyth, at the Kevin Barry Room (National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2).
Tickets: €12 (€10) from the National Concert Hall Box Office. [Get tickets…]
[performance diary entry] [facebook event page]

See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [Details about events/tour…]

Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from UCC School of Music, Note Productions, the National Concert Hall and the Cork Opera House.