Sandara Park releases 'rePRISM', preps Japan mini-album with Sony/Avex veteran as advisor

Sandara Park released rePRISM, a single album with two tracks. One reimagines her existing solo song FESTIVAL with a band arrangement. The other is 손톱 (Sonmop), a new song where she wrote the lyrics and co-composed the music.

A follow-up mini-album is in the works for Japan, centered on band-driven sound and tailored to that market.

Taniguchi Hajime (タニグチ ハジメ) is joining as official advisor to ARADNAS, overseeing her Japanese music activities. He spent years at Sony Music and Avex handling international business, strategy, intellectual property, and music publishing. He was representative director of Avex Music Publishing, chairman of the Japan Music Publishers Association, and director of JASRAC.

When Taniguchi first heard 손톱, he said: "Behind the familiar name, I felt there was a voice that hasn't been heard enough yet." What caught his ear wasn't her past success but "the direction of music being created now." He specifically noted her hands-on approach to songwriting and her work developing new live material with Japanese band collaborators.