North Hangook Falling

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North Hangook Falling
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Studio album by Mike Park
Released August 23, 2005
Recorded January 2005
Genre Acoustic, Indie rock
Length38:45
Label Asian Man Records/Sub City Records
Producer Mike Park
Mike Park chronology
For the Love of Music
(2003)
North Hangook Falling
(2005)
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North Hangook Falling is the second solo album by Mike Park. The title translates to "North Korea Falling" in English. The album was recorded in a week in January 2005 at a total cost of $2,800. The album is predominantly acoustic in feel, though there is some use of electric instrumentation.

Mike Park Korean American musician and activist

Mike Park is a Korean American musician and progressive activist. His musical ventures include Skankin' Pickle for whom he both played the saxophone and sang, The Chinkees, The Bruce Lee Band, and Ogikubo Station, as well as an acoustic solo project under his own name. After his time with Skankin' Pickle he went on to found Asian Man Records, a label which he has run out of his garage in California since 1996 with only help from his parents and friends. Asian Man Records supports mostly ska and punk bands. Park will support any band as long as it is "anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-prejudice". Park has used Asian Man Records to release his own music, in addition to providing a start for smaller bands to allow them to grow, including Less Than Jake, Alkaline Trio, and The Lawrence Arms. In 1999 he formed the Plea for Peace Foundation an organization whose aim is "to promote the ideas of peace through the power of music", something which Park has been trying to do with his own bands and with the help of other groups.

Track listing

  1. "Is It Safe For Me To Go Outside?" – 2:46
  2. "Keeping This Seat Warm" – 2:35
  3. "Born To Kill" – 2:47
  4. "Crazed Man" – 3:13
  5. "Asian Prodigy" – 3:43
  6. "Kiss Me Baby, I'm Always Here For You" – 4:17
  7. "Korea Is So Far Away" – 3:32
  8. "I Can Hear The Whisperings" – 2:48
  9. "Dear Canada" – 3:04
  10. "When Is The Moment That You'll Sing?" – 2:58
  11. "North Hangook Falling" – 4:25
  12. "Blue Marble" (live) – 2:30

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