Throwback! What would become #juno3: Proxemics.
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“Nautiloid capsule tumbles
across field lines.
An impracticably agile,
graceful derailment.”
Recorded four years ago today!
Listen to the rest > busterandfriends.com/ram-163cd
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“Top 16 Albums of 2025” — Free Jazz / Top 10 Albums — Sammy Stein, Free Jazz / — Gregg Miller, Free Jazz / — Lee Rice Epstein, Free Jazz/But does it swing? / — Antonio Poscic, The Wire/Research Music / Also: one-three-hundred-and-fiftieth of Thurston Moore’s 2025 list
Han-earl Park, Pat Thomas and Lara Jones. Photo © 2025 Ryoko Akama.
I’m honored to have worked with Lara and Pat on this album Proxemics (you will not find a nicer bunch of trouble-makers), and very proud of the noise we achieved. #juno3
#juno3: Proxemics makes one-three-hundred-and-fiftieth of Thurston Moore’s 2025 list.
Anna Högberg Attack - Ensammseglaren (Fonstret) / Ava Mendoza, gabby fluke mogul, Carolina Perez - Mama Killa (Burning Ambulance) / Camila Nebbia, Kit Downes, Andrew Lisle - Exhaust (Relative Pitch) / Ebaugh Crane Presley - Detergent (scatterArchive) / Han-earl Park, Lara Jones, Pat Thomas - Juno 3: Proxemics (Buster and Friends) / Isaiah Collier, William Hooker, William Parker - The Ancients (Eremite) / Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio - Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) / Joëlle Léandre & Evan Parker - Long Bright Summer (RogueArt) / Paal Nilssen-Love Circus with The Ex Guitars - Turn Thy Loose (PNL) / Rodrigo Amado The Bridge - Further Beyond (Trost) / Sophie Agnel – Learning (OTORUKO) / Sophie Agnel / John Butcher - Rare (Les Disques VICTO) / Sven-Åke Johansson, Pierre Borel, Seymour Wright, Joel Grip - Two Days at Café OTO (OTOROKU) / The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters - self-titled (Corbett vs. Dempsey) / Tim Berne - Yikes Too (Screwgun / Out Of Your Head) / Wadada Leo Smith & Sylvie Courvoisier - Angel Falls (Intakt Records)
Very happy to see #juno3 in Free Jazz’ Top 16 of the year. www.freejazzblog.org/2025/12/free...
2025 in Youtubified Review
Most watched: youtube.com/shorts/Xgk5e...
Most commented: youtu.be/u0SQ7bumrxQ
Most thumbs down: youtube.com/shorts/7Vzqy...
#juno3 #onetakestudy #spliceimprov
cont.
“Park’s one of the most compelling, noisy, and simultaneously humorous and challenging guitarists around… Jones and Thomas are wonderfully simpatico… This is just a radically exciting album…” #juno3
A behind-the-scenes, partial mix breakdown of #juno3: Proxemics.
[aside][aside] Talking of mixing strategies and crossovers, I might post up a breakdown of #juno3 Proxemics if there’s interest… [/aside][/aside]
“I pause here to note that, as the Asian-Black-Queer trio, #juno3 might be the very definition of DEI.”
Partly in reponse to the statement: “There’s a whole lot of shit (one of them being DEI) that is being focused on that has very little if anything to do with the music itself.”
Lara and Pat are doing some of the most exciting work right now in enrolling electronic and digital techniques into improvised musics. And their determination to steamroller the borders between club and concert spaces, between the spontaneous and composed, is truly inspiring. #juno3
Juno 3: Proxemics cassette
The #juno3 Proxemics cassette is back in stock.
If you want to experience the alt. vérité, ‘bootleg’-vibe recording of the performance, this might be a good time to order your copy as international shipping will be going up soon.
hanearlpark.bandcamp.com/album/juno-3...
Flash back: mixing what would become Proxemics. #juno3
Artist-musician, Graham Dunning invited me a few months ago to put together a mix for his radio show on NTS Radio. You can listen to that episode now! #gonggong225088 #juno3
“Tue 5 Aug | 01:00 “London “Han-earl Park Guest Mix “Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone “nts.live”
Episode 228 of Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone broadcasts on Monday night / Tuesday morning 5th August 2025, from 1am to 3am (uk time). The first hour of the show features a guest mix from improvising musician Han-earl Park.
NTS.live/1
ntslive.co.uk/shows/fractalmeat
#juno3 #gonggong225088
icymi: “Integrated, yet audacious, swashbuckling yet provocative.” — Sammy Stein, Free Jazz
#juno3
See you in few hours! #juno3
Very happy to find #juno3: Proxemics on @alteranthony.bsky.social’s list, and honored to be represented in such a varied landscape of noise.*
20.07.2025: #juno3 performs at RAMP Festival, Ireland!
#juno3 is @hanearlpark.bsky.social @larajonesmusic.bsky.social and Pat Thomas.
For festival details, check out @nolightsproject.bsky.social
ℹ️ busterandfriends.com/performances
So, if you’ve been wanting to enjoy the collectively written liner notes of #eris136199 Peculiar Velocities, or the alternative, vérité, ‘bootleg’-vibe of the #juno3 Proxemics cassette, now’s the time!
Eris 136199: Peculiar Velocities compact disc with packaging including liner notes
Juno 3: Proxemics cassette
Save on shipping!
I am aiming to absorb the increases in international shipping for as long as possible, but prices will, unfortunately, be going up by the end of summer.
#eris136199 #juno3 #sirene1009
#juno3 returns! I’m performing with @larajonesmusic.bsky.social and Pat Thomas in July as part of RAMP festival, Rathmullan, Ireland.
Details: www.northernlightsproject.org/events/ramp-...
“So jarring that it takes the listener somewhere else, only to be brought back to the present by a snippet of melody or harmonic progressions before another clash of sounds impacts the brain….
“Integrated, yet audacious, swashbuckling yet provocative.” — @freejazzblog.bsky.social
#juno3
Photo of cassette tape album Juno 3: Proxemics by Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas.
I’m happy to announce that, following a delay at the factory, I am now shipping the companion cassette tape to #juno3: Proxemics.
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!