Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Charles Hayward

Near + Far

Live in Japan Volume Three

(Locus Solus, LSR 003) (Japan) (CD)

  1. This Echo (4:14)
  2. New World Order, Who Decides? (6:59)
  3. Ghost Voices (11:51)
  4. Accidents + Emergencies (9:17)
  5. Near + Far (4:46)
  6. Eye Was Ear (3:51)
  7. Seven Full Days (5:59)
  8. That Distant Light (4:21)

Charles Hayward: drums, voice, tapes, melodica, bell

Jin Harada (6): bass, guitar
Makoto Nomura (6): piano
Akira Toyonaga (6): guitar
Kazuhisa Uchihashi (6): guitar
Yoshihide Otomo (7): turntables, CD player, sampler, guitar
Tatsuya Yoshida (7): drums, keyboard, voice, guitar

All music and words by Charles Hayward, except track 6 (music by Harada, Hayward, Nomura, Toyonaga, and Uchihashi) and track 7 (music by Hayward, Otomo, and Yoshida)

Recorded live by Kohei Amano at Show Boat in Koenji, Tokyo on April 27, 1996 (1, 5, 7), and at La Mama in Shibuya, Tokyo on April 28 (6) and 29 (2-4), 1996; and by Tatsuya Yoshida in Koenji temple, Tokyo on April 28, 1996 (8)
Vocals and samples for tracks 5 and 6 recorded by Nick Doyne-Ditmas at the Reservoir in July 1997
Mixed by Dominique Brethes at Wolf Studios in London, September 1997

Cover by Charles Hayward and Sue Lawes
Drawings by Charles, Lesley & Lewis
Photos by Lesley Evans and Eiji Hirayama
Produced by Charles Hayward
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Keiichi Fukushima

Released 1999