Korean-American, Berlin-based experimental guitarist, improviser Han-earl Park (박한얼) is a kind of mad scientist or sonic philosopher who explores and conceptualizes the totality of the electric guitar sonorities anew. Park keeps developing an idiosyncratic new lexicon and syntax for the electric guitar that seeks ‘inconveniences’ – or “weird sounds”, and resists easy resolution. Park has studied with Wadada Leo Smith, Richard Barrett, and Anette Krebs, and collaborated with innovative improvisers such as Catherine Sikora, Nick Didkovsky, Pat Thomas, and Camila Nebbia.
uᴉɐƃ∀ ʍǝN sI plO sI ʇɐɥM (What Is Old Is New Again), as its upside-down title suggests, is a series of eighteen irreverent, raw, and immediate, one-take free improvised studies, recorded between January 2024 and February 2026. These #onetakestudies demand, first of all, from
