Koen Park is the work of Ian D Hawgood. Working between his small apartment in Tokyo and his mum's garage in south London, he makes washed out electro-hip-hop-pop-folk-shoegaze music, singing into his laptop mic or OD-2. He plays drum machines, samplers, glockenspiels, broken and warped guitars, various old keyboards, circuit-bent stuff, an atari or two, an omnichord, drums like a kid, field recordings, and runs it all through a bunch of distortion pedals, into his old, slightly broken Fostex cassette four-track and eventually through to his computer.
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Reviewer:brian'sworld - - July 20, 2008 Subject: Pop? Its pop. By an ambient/classical composer. And its seriously fucking good. The other review sums it up really well, except that Grey Night Clouds (Experimedia) is a brilliant piece of early electronica/ambient. 'Nowhere Home' reminded me how good, fun and heart-warming melodic electronica could be and I prefer this to his recent 3" 8485 release.
Reviewer:junbuggy - - June 19, 2008 Subject: grainy hazy tape hissy love i can't get enough of hawgood's work at the moment. he takes his massive ambient work into the koen park world with aplomb - i can't think of anyone who has controlled very dirty keyboard sounds like him since Boards of Canada. OK, so its not the same tone at all but the point is this guy isn't one of those fakers (how many BOCites are there? - too many!) its genuine and very different as well - he even manages to bring in some weird guitar bits and even some singing. oh, and 'the nowhere community' is one of the best tunes since the shoegazers dropped their guitars and balls. imagine boc, with early ride, my bloody valentine and john fahey in one body, then pop it up a bit (where it loses its edge to be honest) and you are left with a muddled but nonetheless quite genius album. much better than the drab 'grey night clouds' release.
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