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CHARLES HAYWARD ! www.charleshayward.org | official website 1.1 | 2009

This is Charles Hayward of This Heat, Camberwell Now, 'Jumpcuts + Crossfades', Clear Frame, Albert Newton, Massacre, Quiet Sun, Keep the dog...

CHARLES HAYWARD'S DISCOGRAPHY
CHARLES HAYWARD, THIS HEAT, CAMBERWELL NOW, ABOUT
CLEAR FRAME, MASSACRE, QUIET SUN, KEEP THE DOG,....
Collaboration with Heiner Goebbels, Phil Manzanera, La1919, Raincoats,
Lora Logic, Coil, Les Batteries, Everything but the girl...
[ Last update: January 30, 2009 ]
 

>| ABOUT
/ Alexis Taylor, John Coxon, Pat Thomas, Charles Hayward /

 
HAYWARD/COXON/ THOMAS/TAYLOR
(2009)
 
 
!. Degraw
2. Forgacs
3. Payne
4. Relph
 
 
 
LOL
COXHILL
A. TAYLOR
 
J. COXON
 
P. THOMAS
C. HAYWARD

HAYWARD/COXON/THOMAS/TAYLOR
' ABOUT '
[ 2009, Treader | trd015 | 4 tracks | CD | tt: 42'30'' ] About : Alexis Taylor (from Hot Chip), John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack), Pat Thomas and Charles Hayward. Information to be updated. Please see the review of the Wire Magazine :
 

>| CLEAR FRAME
/ Lol Coxill, Charles Hayward, Hugh Hopper, Orphy Robinson (special-guest Robert Wyatt) /
Continuity / Rèr megacorp

 
CLEAR FRAME
(December 2007)
 
 
1.Clean Slate
2.Tin Plate
3.Noise Gate
4.Void Crate
, 5.High Rate
6.Better Late
7.Paperweight
8.Figure Eight
 
 
 
LOL
COXHILL
 
CHARLES
HAYWARD
 
HUGH
HOPPER
 
ORPHY
ROBINSON
 
Special-guest:
 
ROBERT
WYATT

CLEAR FRAME
' CLEAR FRAME '
[ 2007, Continuity | TINU001 | 8 tracks | CD ] www.rermegacorp.com
 
" An all-star line-up convened and recorded for a BBC radio project, subsequently radically reworked by Hugh Hopper. These are clear, defined and shapely improvisations, music rather than noise based, invoking the best of the '70s rock- improvisational approaches; genre-free and structurally-minded. Robert appears in an unfamiliar role, playing trumpet throughout, and everyone is on top form. A rarity in these times, this is deep rooted music that grows with listening." (Chris Cutler/Rèr).
 
(BBC review by Nick Reynols) "Clear Frame showcases some of the finest players of the avant-garde of British jazz and improv. Saxophonist Lol Coxhill, Charles Hayward (drummer with pioneering This Heat), Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine) on bass and percussionist Orphy Robinson, with special guest national treasure Robert Wyatt on cornet. How do you judge improvised music? Firstly, on the tones and techniques of the individual players. Are they original and inventive? Do they make sounds you've never heard before? Secondly, are they listening to each other? Does the whole thing add up to something or is it just...bits? This album passes both these tests and more. It's a wonderful piece of group improvisation. Hugh Hopper is brilliant throughout, providing little licks, riffs and mutating half melodies, which hold the whole sound together. And when Hopper and Hayward lock into a groove (for example Tin Plate) they're very funky in a deliciously fractured way. The other outstanding presence is Robinson. He brings a clean, fresh approach to this kind of music, his steel pan and vibraphone playing showing real originality especially when contrasted with bursts of noise and distortion (Noise Gate). The complaint about this set is that at times Robinson is simply not loud enough. Coxhill's sax and Wyatt's cornet squeak and bleat but also combine in sombre, lyrical flurries. Clear Frame is 52 minutes long but whizzes by. Edgy and atmospheric but never bloated or heavy handed, it's really, really good. Highly recommended."
Source: → [EN] Review : BBC (Nick Reynols)
 
"Featuring the all-star cast of Charles Hayward, Hugh Hopper, Lol Coxhill and Orphy Robinson (vibraphone, steel drums), with guest Robert Wyatt on cornet. Eight strong pieces in a rock-inflected, improvisation-empowered, loose - but not too loose - free-associating open style that has become as rare as hen's teeth today. Clearframe refers back to time when free jazz, rock and all the experimental fringes were converging in search of a polyglot musical language eschewing the exclusions and rules that hedged their different genres about; and all the participants here (except Orphy Robinson - too young) were part of that project and have been shifting genres and evading labels ever since. To my ears, this record returns to unfinished business and does so at the highest level. These chaps know their way around. Clearframe offers a rare opportunity to listen to masters at work in an almost non-existent field. And it's great to hear Lol in full flight. " (Chris Cutler/Rèr)."

>| CHARLES HAYWARD
/ solo and collaboration releases under his name /

 
CHARLES HAYWARD
1. Out of order
2.Beside

CHARLES HAYWARD
' OUT OF ORDER c/w BESIDE '
[ 2008, Dotdotdot | 2 tracks | 45rpm ]
 
Release: 2008, June 1st. "Finally some news here. We have 2 more 7 inch singles on the way, due for release next month (May 2008). As before they are super-limited editions on coloured vinyl, so you'll have to be quick and get your orders in now to reserve copies. Singles are by Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now) and The New Blockaders. You can buy anything off the website through paypal to phegarty@french.ucc.ie. E-mail to this address for orders too. Contact: info@dotdotdotmusic.com. 3 SEMINARY VILLAS, BLACKPOOL, CORK, IRELAND." http://www.dotdotdotmusic.com/

 
1. Toytown (5:31)
2. My madness (8:19)
3. Shadowplay (4:35)
4. Abracadabra
information (9:06)
5. Silo 2 3 (11:11)
6. Time is spiral (10:32)

CHARLES HAYWARD
ABRACADABRA INFORMATION
[ 2004, Locus solus | CAT#LSR005, CD
" Charles with 6 new, studio recorded, extended songs - for drums, tape, melodica, keyboards and voice, featuring John Edwards contrabass on one piece, a grim salute to London. It drives and drones, with Charles' precise and focussed drums keeping it all on track. This is Charles, as known, and on form. Nicely packaged, Japanese release. " (from Rèr website).
 
http://www.locus-solus.co.jp/

CHARLES HAYWARD / MICHAEL PRIME (Split LP)
S/T [ 2000, Raft | CAT#Raft112, LP 12'' ]
[SIDE 1] CHARLES HAYWARD "wash.rinse.spin" [SIDE 2] MICHAEL PRIME "osculation"
"duet between Indesit 1131 Omega washing machine and charles hayward (melodicas, percussion, keyboards) recorded, stereo, february '97 in charles' kitchen. Edited, multi-tracked and mixed march '97 at the reservoir. Engineer: nick doyne ditmas." (from These website). http://www.theserecords.com/files/raft112.html/

CHARLES HAYWARD
' NEAR + FAR - Live in Japan vol.3 '
[ 1999, Locus solus | CAT#LSR003, CD ]
This Echo / New World Order, Who Decides? / Ghost Voices / Accidents + Emergencies / Near + Far / Eye Was Ear / Seven Full Days / That Distant Light
"Tracks 1-4 are from his solo performances, songs that weren't able to be released on Escape From Europe. Tracks 5-7 are new songs composed in the studio by remixing and overdubbing sessions with Tatsuya Yoshida, Yoshihide Otomo, Kazuhisa Uchihashi. Track 8 features Hayward singing with a melodica, recorded in a temple garden by Tatsuya Yoshida. (...) Recorded April 1996." (from Forced Exposure website).
http://www.locus-solus.co.jp/

CHARLES HAYWARD
' DOUBLE AGENT(S) - Live in Japan vol.2 '
[ 1998, Locus solus | CAT#LSR002, CD ]
/ Split Personalities / Neurological Focus Shift / Crisis on Earth Two / Parallel Universe / Crisis on Earth Three / The Most Dangerous Earth of All
"Very exciting live improvisations with Tatsuya Yoshida (drums & voice), Yoshihide Otomo (turntables, CD player & sampler), Keiji Haino (guitar & voice), and Peter Brotzmann (tenor saxophone & clarinets). Recorded April, 1996. " (from Forced Exposure website).
http://www.locus-solus.co.jp/

CHARLES HAYWARD > NÛS > DAVID SHEA
' ' S/T ' (BARI LIVE SESSIONS) '
[ 1996, Sub rosa | CAT#QUANTUM204, CD ]
/ The New World Order, who decides? / Accidents & Emergencies / Bo Bones
http://www.subrosa.net

CHARLES HAYWARD / NICK DOYNE-DITMAS
' MY SECRET ALPHABET '
[ 1993, SubRosa | CAT#SR59, CD ]
Hilly Fields / Unearthing Fossil Fuels / November Building / Slow Air / Seventy Two, Trade White / Rumour Is Mobile / Slim Pickens / My Secret Alphabet / Thick Skin, Paper Thin / Outcomelt
"This cd is born from a collaboration between Charles Hayward (founder of This Heat & The Camberwell Now) and multi-instrumentist Nick Doyne-Ditmas. After Survive the Gesture (songs), Skew-Whiff (tribute to Mark Rothko) & Switch on War (music from the armchair theatre of war), this release reunites the song writing, the improvised music and sonic researches in a more positive way to look at the world. Songs and soundfields, a résumé of Charles' universe. WHAT HAYWARD SAYS: "What interested me is the way certain shapes, figures and textures would reappear in completely different context as if made of different material. It was like a long line, a series of very strong moments that all seemed to relate to each other. It's like breaking a dream but also keeping the dream going. The shapes are there but you can't understand why they are there. That was a big influence for me in terms of constructing the record as a long and winding shape. The lyrics make a lot of sense in a linear way first and as the record develops it becomes more and more like snapshots and you can't really work out what you are focusing on." This album offers a wide variety of musical landscapes that ranges from clear pop songs (Hilly Fields, Unearthing Fossil Fuels, My Secret Alphabet....) to ambient instrumental pieces.. " (from SubRosa website).
http://www.subrosa.net

CHARLES HAYWARD / NICK DOYNE-DITMAS
V/A : ' CHAOS IN EXPANSION '
[ 1993, SubRosa | CAT#_, CD ]
CHARLES HAYWARD / NICK DOYNE-DITMA/ Where Is Chaos Now / Chaotic Scales After Ligeti's Lontano / Baby Food / Une Fenetre De Connaissance
V/A: 4 tracks by Hayward/Doyne-Ditmas and Coil.
http://www.subrosa.net

CHARLES HAYWARD
' SWITCH ON WAR '
[ 1991, SubRosa | CAT#SR40, CD ]
/ Crying Shame / Strong-Arm Dead-Line / Pinpoint / Sweetheart / Never Before
"13 years later, post-Gulf War 2 and the situation seems even worse, more far reaching, the stalemate re-configured and therefore more convenient for certain interests, the hypocrisy of our politicians and "free" media even more shameless and blatant, what is really happening even less clear and yet staring us in the face. Perhaps now is as good a time as any to listen again. MUSIC FOR THE ARMCHAIR THEATRE OF WAR. A UNIQUE AND ENTERTAINING SOUVENIR. FOR YOU TO TREASURE AND KEEP. Switch on War a dream state synthesis of nights watching live TV coverage of the 1st Gulf War, the reduction of colours to an electron midnight blue, the long periods of nothing really happening, the contrasting landscapes, (the desert, the city at night, the newsroom), the sudden hurtling through space, through a doorway, a camera on the nose of a missile, the bearing of silent witness slowly turning into complicity and mute acquiescence. At the back of the mind the thought that all this would soon be reduced to snapshot memories, archive, newsreel, history. Originally devised as a performance for the Club Integral, in South London, at the height of the military activity, 'Switch on War' was a harsh and brutal response to the media coverage of the conflict informed by a grotesque and disconcerting anti-music aesthetic heavily influenced by the disorientating, overloaded sound world of Space Invaders arcades. The CD version was recorded binaurally some weeks later, live in a disused morgue, as the war came to its stalemate close. By this time the anger had a bleak streak of sadness, a distorted expressionist requiem. This CD had the life expectancy of a magazine article or some such, no more than a year and it would be archive, a mere souvenir." (from Subrosa.net).
→ [EN] Review : DUSTED magazine (Alexander Provan)
→ [EN] Review : POSTEVERYTHING

CHARLES HAYWARD
' SKEW WHIFF - A tribute to Mark Rothko '
[ 1990, SubRosa | CAT#SR33, CD ]
/ The Actor merges with the Crowd / Cold Blue Sun / Smell of Metal / Lopside / Thames Water Authority
"These five recent compositions of Charles Hayward were inspired by the last paintings of Mark Rothko - haunted by the relationship between dark and colored masses - and the rush of feeling, both physical and spiritual. that they generate the composer is revealed here in all his blinding dephts. Skew-whiff remains nonetheless an unceasing homage to Greenwich, the ancient maritime spirit, white cliffs and open seas. A tribute to the black and slow waters of the Thames.. " (from Subrosa.net).
→ [IT] Review : ALTRE MUSICHE (Andrea Coralli)

CHARLES HAYWARD
' SURVIVE THE GESTURE '
[ 1987, Ink LP + CD SubRosa, CAT#SR70 ]
/ Make Believe / Let's Pretend / North Southwark / Pretend To Believe / Crystal Palace / This Misunderstanding / You And Me / Time And Motion / That Distant Light / Australia
"HISTORY : After the dissolution of the extraordinary and mythical THIS HEAT and the split of the uncomprehended THE CAMBERWELL NOW, Charles Hayward, the frontman of these groups, composer, singer, drummer (one of England's most extraodinary), keyboardist... finally records his first solo album (...) FROM XTC TO ROBERT WYATT : Back in 1988 Charles presented a collection of songs in the finest English vein (from XTC to Robert Wyatt). Long time out of stock, SURVIVE THE GESTURE was digitally remastered and is now issued on Sub Rosa (...) A PURE EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE : Nobody will be able to resist Australia, the final song of the album, which Charles thinks of his friend who has set out to try his fortune on another continent and sings ..... And now he sleeps through our days, ..... Dreamtime while we work ..... And he spends Chrismas Day in the sunshine.... " (from Subrosa.net).
→ [EN] Review : POSTEVERYTHING

>| THIS HEAT
/ Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward, Gareth Williams /
http://www.thisheat.org

THIS HEAT
' OUTSIDE OF COLD STORAGE '
Complete recordings remastered with bonus tracks
[ 2006, This is - Rèr | 6 CDS BOX SET + ltd edition bonus cd ]
"The complete official lifetime releases of This Heat: This Heat | Deceit | Health and Efficiency | Made Available | Repeat re-mastered and re-packaged, with a substantial (48 page) book of interviews, recollections, information, documents and photographs in a sturdy box, PLUS a new CD of concert recordings '1980/81' !
 
 
CD1 'Blue & Yellow' [this is#1] :
/ Testcard / Horizontal Hold / Not Waving / Water / Twilight Furniture / 24 Track Loop / Diet of Worms / Music like Escaping Gas / Rainforest / The Fall of Saigon / Testcard
 
CD2 'Deceit' [this is#2] :
/ Sleep / Paper Hats / Triumph / S.P.Q.R. / Cenotaph / Shrink Wrap / Radio Prague / Makeshift Swahili / Independence / A New Kind of Water
 
CD3 'Health & Efficiency' [this is#3] :
/ health and efficiency / graphic - varispeed (45rpm)
 
CD4 'Made Available (John Peel sessions '77)' [this is#4] :
/ Horizontal Hold / Not Waving / The Fall of Saigon / Rimp Romp Ramp / Makeshift / Sitting / Basement Boy / Blither
 
CD5 'Repeat' [this is#5] :
/ Repeat / Metal / Graphic - Varispeed
 
CD6 'Live 80/81' [this is#6] :
/ Horizontal Hold / Paper Hats / S.P.Q.R. / Triumph / Aerial Photography / The Rough with the Smooth / Makeshift Swahili / Music like Escaping Gas / A New Kind of Water / Twilight Furniture / Health and Efficiency (Compiled from gigs in Tilburg, Nijmegen, Arhus, Apeldoorn, Vienna and Rheims between April 1980 and June 1981 and structured around the set-list used on tour in the Netherlands, December 1980)
 
Bonus CD
'Nivelles' [ltd edition] : / Nivelles
 
 
 
Please visit 'Outside of cold storage' page at
http://www.rermegacorp.com
http://www.rerusa.com
 
 
 
Please find hereunder the original This Heat discography :

THIS HEAT
' S/T ' (aka= 'the Blue and Yellow')
Originally released in 1979 by Piano, LP (#this1)
Rèr CD 2006 remastered (available)
(First CD rerelease by These Records, 1991 deleted)
/ Testcard / Horizontal Hold / Not Waving / Water / Twilight Furniture / 24 Track Loop / Diet of Worms / Music like Escaping Gas / Rainforest / The Fall of Saigon / Testcard
"This Heat, the first record, (The Blue and Yellow ) was a landmark release. It tore up the book and laid new rules for band composition and performance. The music was without precedent; the musicians uncompromising; the recordings hammeringly intense and the sound deep, radical, and rich. This was music stripped back to the bone but never simplified. And over time it has also proved itself prescient; there are musical innovations here that anticipate genres that would take another 15 years to reappear." (from this heat official page at MySpace).
http://www.rermegacorp.com
http://www.rerusa.com

THIS HEAT
' Health & Efficiency '
Originally released in 1980 by Piano/Rough trade, 12'' (#this1201)
Rèr CD 2006 remastered (available)
(First CD3'' rerelease by These Records, 1991 deleted)
/ health and efficiency / graphic - varispeed
http://www.rermegacorp.com
http://www.rerusa.com

THIS HEAT
' DECEIT '
Originally released in 1981 by Rough trade, LP (#rough26)
Rèr CD 2006 remastered (available)
(First CD rerelease by These Records, 1992 deleted)
/ Sleep / Paper Hats / Triumph / S.P.Q.R. / Cenotaph / Shrink Wrap / Radio Prague / Makeshift Swahili / Independence / A New Kind of Water
http://www.rermegacorp.com
http://www.rerusa.com

THIS HEAT featuring Mario Boyer Diekuuroh
' S/T '
(split MC : side1: This Heat / side2: Albert Marcoeur)
Originally released in 1981 by Tago Mago, MC (#tagomago4753)
/ side1: This Heat featuring Mario Boyer Diekuuroh
/ side2: Albert Marcoeur 'Deux lions au soleil'
"Various cassette recordings, 1977-78.
Camberwell, Cold Storage, and live.
(Stereo recordings)"

THIS HEAT
' REPEAT '
Originally recorded in 1978
Rèr CD 2006 remastered (available)
(First release by These Records, CD, 1993 deleted)
/ Repeat / Metal / Graphic-Varispeed
http://www.rermegacorp.com
http://www.rerusa.com

THIS HEAT
' MADE AVAILABLE - John Peel sessions, 1977 '
Originally recorded in 1977
Rèr CD 2006 remastered (available) with new artwork
(First release by These Records, CD, 1996 deleted)
/ Horizontal Hold / Not Waving / The Fall of Saigon / Rimp Romp Ramp / Makeshift / Sitting / Basement Boy / Blither
http://www.rermegacorp.com
http://www.rerusa.com

THIS HEAT
' LIVE 80/81 '
Originally recorded in 1980/81*
First release by This is/Rèr, CD 2006
This is only available with 'Outside cold storage' boxset.
/ Horizontal Hold / Paper Hats / S.P.Q.R. / Triumph / Aerial Photography / The Rough with the Smooth / Makeshift Swahili / Music like Escaping Gas / A New Kind of Water / Twilight Furniture / Health and Efficiency
* Compiled from gigs in Tilburg, Nijmegen, Arhus, Apeldoorn, Vienna and Rheims between April 1980 and June 1981 and structured around the set-list used on tour in the Netherlands, December 1980
http://www.rermegacorp.com
http://www.rerusa.com

>| CAMBERWELL NOW
/ Charles Hayward, Trefor Goronwy, Stephen Rickard /
http://www.myspace.com/camberwellnownow

CAMBERWELL NOW
' ALL'S WELL '
Complete works remastered [ 2007, Ad Hoc / Rèr, CD digipak ]
First release by RecRec, CD 1992, #RecDec1015 (deleted)
/ Cutty Sark / Pearl Divers / Spirit of Dunkirk / Resplash / Daddy Needs a Throne / Working Nights / Sitcom / Wheat Futures / Speculative Fiction / Green Lantern / The Ghost Trade / Greenfingers / Mystery of the Fence / Know How / Element Unknown
"After the demise of This Heat, Charles Hayward continued to work with Trefor Goronwy, bassist from the last manifestation of the group, the two of them joining forces with Steve Rickard who, for the new band, designed the cassette 'switchboard' a kind of proto-sampler - but that's not the half of it (Steve's article fully explaining the device is reprinted in the new, expanded booklet that comes with the CD). Musically, Camberwell both followed and departed from the style of This Heat. Formally and gesturally there are common elements, but there is far greater transparency and the sound palette is quite different: the music is more placed than grown, as the slow accumulation and evolution of material in This Heat gives way to a more immediate and orderly development of the material in Camberwell Now. The songs - nostalgic, scary, quietly desperate - peer into the future to find harbour but confront only fragments of ruin. Debris and disturbance eat away at the root and corrode each shiny surface (this is mostly the musical work of the cassette switchboard). The juxtaposition of powerful, virtuosic playing and the eerie, often unidentifiable keenings, chords and constant motion of the cassettes is one of the things that make Camberwell Now so expressive of its time - when the whole social and political fabric of a no-longer-great Britain was unravelling. This definitive edition collects the entire released output of the group together (two EPs and an LP) newly re-mastered by the band and repackaged with full notes, lyrics, additional photographs and artwork" (from Rèr website).
http://www.rermegacorp.com
http://www.rerusa.com

CAMBERWELL NOW
' GREENFINGERS '
[ 1987, RecRec/Ink Records | CAT#RecRec15, 12'' ]
/ Greenfingers / Mystery of the Fence / Know How / Element Unknown
Tracks available on All's well cd

CAMBERWELL NOW
' THE GHOST TRADE '
[ 1986, RecRec/Ink Records | CAT#RecRec10, LP ]
/ Working Nights / Sitcom / Wheat Futures / Speculative Fiction / Green Lantern / The Ghost Trade
Tracks available on All's well cd

CAMBERWELL NOW
' MERIDIAN '
[ 1983, Duplicate | 12'' ]
/ Cutty Sark / Trade Winds / Pearl Divers / Spirit of Dunkirk / Splash
Tracks available on All's well cd (1-4)

>| MASSACRE
/ Fred Frith, Bill Laswell, Charles Hayward /
http://www.fredfrith.com

MASSACRE
' LONELY HEART '
[ 2007, Tzadik | 58:06 | CAT#7619, CD ]
/ 1. Send / 2. Step / 3. In / 4. Gracias a la Vida / 5. Return
"Together since 1980, Massacre is one of the world's classic cutting edge rock guitar trios. Opening for Metallica on the stage of the Roskilde Rock festival in front of an audience of 10,000 metal heads, they break out like never before. Here Frith puts down his brushes and chains and whips out some of the greatest flatout guitar fireworks he has ever performed. Three masters of rock improvisation kick out the jams in one of the greatest performances of their nearly thirty year existence. Astonishing and exhilarating." (from Tzadik website).
http://www.tzadik.com

MASSACRE
' MELTDOWN '
[ 2001, Tzadik | 67:39 | CAT#7606, CD ]
/ 1. Up for It / 2. Song for Che / 3. Closing Circles and Loose End / 4. Hover / 5. For Food and Scatter / 6. Figure Out / 7. The Empire Strikes Back / 8 .Over
"A blistering live performance by one of the greatest instrumental rock trios ever. Fred Frith, Bill Laswell and Charles Hayward have each been responsible for some of the greatest concerts in new music in the last twenty years, and collectively they take rock improvisation to ecstatic new heights. Beautifully recorded by longtime Laswell associate Oz Fritz at Robert Wyatt's Meltdown Festival in London, 2001, Meltdown is one of the most exciting recordings by this dynamic supergroup..." (from Tzadik website).
http://www.tzadik.com

MASSACRE
' FUNNY VALENTINE '
[ 1998, Tzadik | 60:26 | CAT#7601, CD ]
"A legendary meeting of three contemporary masters: Fred Frith, Bill Laswell, and Charles Hayward. From Material, Arcana and Praxis, Henry Cow, Skeleton Crew, Keep The Dog and This Heat, these three geniuses have been involved in some of the greatest underground bands of the past several decades. Collaborating together for the first time, this is a dream project that takes the classic rock trio format to never-before-explored territories. An important document of improvisational rock at its most convulsive..." (from Tzadik website).
http://www.tzadik.com

>| KEEP THE DOG
/ Fred Frith, René Lussier, Jean Derome, Zeena Parkins, Bob Ostertag, Charles Hayward /
http://www.fredfrith.com

KEEP THE DOG
' THAT HOUSE WE LIVED IN '
[ 2003, Fred records | 1h36mn | 2xCD ]
DISC 1 / Revelation - Bones / Rock and a Hard Place / Hola, On Danse! / Foot in Hole / Fanfare / Lizard's Tail / Suspended / Quick Sign / Propaganda Suite / Walking Song / Some Clouds Do ___ DISC 2 / The Same Eye - Fives No Legs - Slow Bones / That Home We Lived In (Keep the Dog) - Candy Machine / The Trace / True Love (instrumental version) / Instant Party / Small Mercy II / Norrgården Nyvla / Year of the Monkey - Dark as a Match / Domaine de Langendreer
"Keep the Dog was a United States-based experimental rock touring band from New York City formed in 1989 by English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. The sextet was conceived as a review band for performing selections of Frith's extensive repertoire of compositions from the previous 15 years. The band lineup was Frith, René Lussier, Jean Derome, Zeena Parkins, Bob Ostertag and Kevin Norton. Later Charles Hayward replaced Norton. The group existed until mid-1991, performing live in Europe, North America and the former Soviet Union. A double CD, That House We Lived In, from their final 1991 European tour, was released in 2003." (from Wikipedia).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_the_Dog

>| QUIET SUN
/ Phil Manzanera, Bill Mc Cormick, Dave Jarrett, Charles Hayward and featuring Brian Eno /

QUIET SUN
' MAINSTREAM '
[ 1975 LP, Antilles, Island | 1997 CD, Expression records | tt: 39'23'' ]
First cd rerelease by E'G japan (deleted)
/ Sol Caliente / Trumpets with Motherhood / Bargain Classics / R.F.D. / Mummy was an asteroid, Daddy was a small non-stick kitchen utensil / Trot / Rongwrong
"Having originated from a college band by the name of Pooh and the Ostrich Feather, Quiet Sun was formed in 1970 after MacCormick had made friends with Robert Wyatt, the son of a friend of his mother's. The band integrated jazz elements and sparkling keyboard sounds into their complex music - similar to Soft Machine - but Manzanera's energetic guitar made their music very different from the Softs' who had not been using any guitar on their regular albums before the 1975 release of Bundles (if you don't count bass guitar), but had used reeds as the main other melody instruments aside of keyboards. Quiet Sun split up in 1972, Manzanera to Roxy Music, MacCormick to Matching Mole, Hayward to This Heat, and Jarrett began to teach mathematics.
In 1975, Manzanera booked a studio for 26 days to record his album Diamond Head and got Quiet Sun together again to record an album from their old composed material in the studio at the same time. This first and only album of theirs, with participation of Brian Eno and the late Ian MacCormick, titled Mainstream was critically acclaimed and became the New Musical Express' album of the month. You may find one of Quiet Sun's songs on Robert Wyatt's Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard, under the name of "Team Spirit", and other few on the already mentioned Diamond Head." (from Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Sun
please see also hereunder (Collaboration) :
PHIL MANZANERA 'Diamon Head' featuring Charles Hayward

The Manzanera Archives
' Rare One '
[ 2000 CD, Expression records | #EXPCD2 ]
includes: / Quiet Sun: RFD (Mainstream Sessions) 2:27 / Quiet Sun: Years of the Quiet Sun (Original Demo) 10:32 / Quiet Sun: Corazon y Alma (Warner Brothers Demo) 10:23 / Quiet Sun: RFD (Warner Brothers Demo) 6:14
"A delve into the Manzanera archives to reveal unreleased Quiet Sun tracks. 1977 era 801 from the radio plus many other unheard diamonds". (from manzanera.com)
http://www.manzanera.com/QuietSun1.htm

>| COLLABORATION
/ Nick Doyne-Ditmas, Phil Manzanera, Percy Howard, La1919, Raincoats, Heiner Goebels, Les Batteries, The Hat Shoes, Coil, Lora Logic, Everything but the girl, Percy Howard... /

PHIL MANZANERA
' Firebird V 11 '
[ 2008 CD, Expression Records ]
PHIL MANZANERA : Gibson Firebird V11 Guitar ,Vocals
CHARLES HAYWARD : Slingerland drums, Vocals
YARON STAVI : Bass Guitar, Acoustic Bass, Vocals
LESZEK MOZDZER : Piano, Synths, Vocals.
/ Fortunately I Had One With Me (W MacCormick) / Cartagena (Manzanera) / FIREeBIRed (Mozdzer) / Mexican Hat (Manzanera/Hayward/Mozdzer/Stavi) / Firebird V11 (Manzanera) / A Few Minutes (Stavi) / After Magritte (Hayward)
"Firebird V11 is a studio album by Phil Manzanera, guitarist of rock band Roxy Music.[1]. It's title is inspired by a guitar of the same name, made by Gibson, a guitar with which Manzanera has had a long career with" (Wikipedia)
http://www.firebirdv11.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebird_V11
http://www.manzanera.com/

HUGH HOPPER / SIMON PICARD / STEVE FRANKLIN / CHARLES HAYWARD
' Numero D'Vol '
[ 2007 CD, Moon June ]
HUGH HOPPER : bass guitar
SIMON PICARD : tenor sax
STEVE FRANKLIN : keyboards
CHARLES HAYWARD : drums
/ Numero d'vol / On The Spot / Earwigs Enter / Free Bee / Get That Tap / Bootz / Shovelfeet / Bees Knees Man / Straight Away / Twilight / Some Other Time
"(...) It's to be hoped that Hopper manages to keep this band together for further recording projects. The fact that this whole program is credited to all four members of the band suggests it's a highly cooperative effort. Fair enough if so. It's high time such values were repeatedly celebrated in these times of unscrupulous individualism (...)"
(Extract from → [EN] Review : All About Jazz (Nick Jones)
http://www.hugh-hopper.com
http://burningshed.co.uk/hopper/

PERCY HOWARD'S MERIDIEM
' A Pleasant Fiction '
[ 2004 CD, Necessary Angel / PH6764 ]
PERCY HOWARD / BILL LASWELL / VERNON REID / CHARLES HAYWARD / HAROUN SERANG / BUCKETHEAD / JARBOE / ERALDO BERNOCCHI / RICKY CARTER / EDO CASTRO / MATT DONNER / DK DYSON / JOHN ETTINGER / KRIS FORCE / ROBERT RICH / HAPPY RHODES / STEVE SULLIVAN / JILL TRACY
/ The Girl on the Back of the Motorcycle / Melting / Chase the Blues Away / The East / Brilliant Ending / A Pleasant Fiction / Can I Get a Witness ? / Carlotta / Where You Stand / Give Me Everything
Recorded at Orange Music Sound, West Orange, New Jersey, USA, 2003
http://www.gutsofdarkness.com/god/objet.php?objet=4923
http://www.matson.it/

NICK DOYNE-DITMAS
' Pan Integral '
[ 1999 CD, Ndodi recors | album | #_ ]
Charles Hayward plays drums on
/ Potential / Dust of Ages / November
http://www.citymusicservices.co.uk/tutors/music-tutors-ditmas.html

PERCY HOWARD'S MERIDIEM
' Incidental Seduction '
[ 1999 CD, Materiali Sonori / MASO CD 90109 ]
PERCY HOWARD / ERALDO BERNOCCHI / KEEN BURNS / JOHN ETTINGER / TREY GUNN / CHARLES HAYWARD / LEONARD LA RUE / BILL LASWELL / KALI LAVEY / VICTORIA LLOYD / VERNON REID / STEVE SULLIVAN
/ Filligree / Trastevere / Aperture / Thirst / Succubus / Lapis / Under the Wonderment / Seraph's Song / Infelice e Tu Credevi... / Everywhere / Float
Recorded at Enharmonic Studios et Chris Ross Studios, Sacramento, Californie / Orange Music Sound, West Orange, New Jersey, USA, 1998
http://www.gutsofdarkness.com/god/objet.php?objet=4923
http://www.matson.it/

PERCY HOWARD / FRED FRITH / BILL LASWELL / CHARLES HAYWARD
' Meridiem '
[ 1998 CD, Materiali Sonori / MASO CD 90098 ]
PERCY HOWARD : vocals / FRED FRITH : guitar, radio, organ, violin / BILL LASWELL : bass, fuzz bass / CHARLES HAYWARD : drums, percussion, cowbell, wurlitzer
/ The 7th / Mingle / Interference / Frozen / Iurodivii / Votive Rhythm / Lunarsa / Anaesthesia / Crucible
Recorded and mixed by Oz Fritz (Jan 18 – 22, 1998)
Produced by Percy Howard III
http://www.sacreddub.com/discography/meridiem
http://www.matson.it/

Jeremy Peyton Jones / REGULAR MUSIC II
' North South East West '
[ 1998 CD, New Tone | NT 6748 - 58 minutes ]
Jeremy Peyton Jones / Charles Hayward / Bron Szerszynski / Helen Ottaway / Jonathan Parry / Sarah Homer / Mary Phillips / David Powell / Maria Lamburn / Jocelyn Pook
/ Idyllic Rhythms / Hyppolyte And Aricie / The Fourth Door (Dub) / Neapolitan Sixth (Part 1) / Neapolitan Sixth (Part 3) / The Third Dream / The Fourth Door
"Associated in the mid-80s with Lost Jockey and the Michael Nyman Band, Regular Music's recorded output has been extremely sparse. So far as I know, their self-titled album from 1985 remains out-of-print. It's easy to accuse composer Peyton Jones' music of being derivative. The opening Wardances and Wardances II on this album, with simple, interlocking vocal rhythms, sounds so similar to Meredith Monk's singing, for example, that you'd swear it was Monk if you weren't told otherwise. A lot of the other music here sounds like a cross between Michael Nyman and Philip Glass (the text on the title track reminds me of Einstein On The Beach). The two Purcell Manoeuvres featured even adopt the familiar Nyman tactic of appropriating another composer's music and extensively reworking it (Nyman used Purcell himself on The Draughtsman's Contract). It would perhaps be unfair to say that Peyton Jones is just a plagiarist or a clone: just that there's a great deal commonality of interest and style. Certainly, if you enjoy the music of any of the other composers mentioned, you'll enjoy North South East West too."
Source: → [EN] Review : EST magazine
http://www.felmay.it/main.php?ricerca=North+South+East+West&id=8119

LA1919
' Jouer, Spielen, To play '
[ 1994 CD, Materiali Sonori | #____ ]
Luciano Margorani, Piero Chianura, Roberto Zorzi, Chris Cutler, Charles Hayward
/ Hanno Seppellito L'Uomo Sbagliato / Sheffield Wednesday / Fate Fagotto! / Storie del Dormiveglia / Quaquaqua... Singing Ducks / Donne Kamikaze / Un Mondo Invisibile / Red Wire / The Drumming Talk
Recorded in april 1991 and may 1992, Italy.
http://www.matson.it/

THE HAT SHOES
' Differently Desperate '
[ 1991 LP, RecRec Music / RecDec41 ]
BILL GILONIS, CATHERINE JAUNIAUX, CHARLES HAYWARD, TOM CORA and guest appearances by Tim Hodgkinson, David Thomas, Rick Brown, Hahn Rowe, Stuart Jones, Ian Hill, Tito Pueblo, Amos, Chris Cochrane...
/ Dolores / Birdless / The Woman Of Chermovitzy / Love Conversation / Tom-Ta-Kati-È-La Coté / Battre Des Paupières / Differently Desperate / Sugar Sugar / Tchakoh / Skinny Moon / Experts / Saddest Train Ride / The Pigeons, Mr. McKenzie / Hátong
http://www.discogs.com/Hat-Shoes-Differently-Desperate/release/1222811

COIL
' Loves Secret Domain '
[ 1991 CD, Waxtrax | album | #_ ]
Charles Hayward plays drums on
/ Things Happen / Love's Secret Domain
http://brainwashed.com/coil/

HEINER GOEBBELS
' SHADOW/Landscape with Argonauts '
with words by Edgar Allan Poe and Heiner Müller
[ 1990 CD, ECM | ECM#1480 ]
Sussan Deihim, René Lussier, Charles Hayward, Christos Govetas, Heiner Goebbels
Landscape / Ye who read / Shall I speak of me / 2 Dollar / I my sea voyage / The year has been a year of terror / The stars are cold signposts / Over some flasks / From an unknown catastrophe / A dead weight / Yet we laughed / No arrival no parking / Or the hapless landing / And lo / In the back the swine / And then did we
Recorded February, September and October 1990
http://www.heinergoebbels.com/
ECM label

HEINER GOEBBELS
' Der Mann im Fahrstuhl (The Man in the Elevator) '
[ 1988 CD, ECM | tt: 42:64 | ECM#1369 ]
Arto Lindsay, Ernst Stötzner, Don Cherry, Fred Frith, Charles Hayward, George Lewis, Ned Rothenberg, Heiner Goebbels, and based on a text by Heiner Müller
( Recorded march 1988 )
"This legendary staged concert was originally created for the first Frankfurt Art-Rock-Festival in 1987; between its premiere and 1990 it has been performed in Kassel - Opera, Strasbourg - Festival Musica, Zurich - Taktlos Festival, Vienna - Wiener Festwochen, Brussel - Kaaitheater, Leipzig - Jazz Festival, Berlin - Tempodrom, New York - Next Wave Festival, Frankfurt - Experimenta." (from www.heinergoebbels.com)
http://www.heinergoebbels.com/
page at ECM label

LES BATTERIES
' Noisy Champs '
[ 1986 LP, Ayaa ]
CHARLES HAYWARD, GUIGOU CHENEVIER, RICK BROWN
/ Noisy Champs / Sunday And Dimanche / Identity Parade / Polar / Post-Polar / Dernier Solo Avant L'Autoroute / White Elegance / The Letter / Dernier Rendez-Vous Au Gord / Flintstone / Maksymenko / 3 Hommes Et Un Mouchoir / 3 Legs For 2 Birds / Supply And Demand / Stop Those Ideas
"Recorded and mixed at Sunrise Studio, Kirchberg, except track A7, recorded 9th February 1986 in Wiesbaden, the cymbals on track B4, recorded October 1984 in Stockholm, and track A3 mixed at Master Studio, St. Gallen" (Discogs)
http://www.discogs.com/Les-Batteries-Noisy-Champs/release/794372/

REGULAR MUSIC
' s / t '
[ 1985 LP, Rough Trade | #____ ]
Jeremy Peyton Jones / Charles Hayward / Bron Szerszynski / Helen Ottaway / Jonathan Parry / Sarah Homer / Mary Phillips / David Powell / Maria Lamburn / Jocelyn Pook
/ Idyllic Rhythms / Hyppolyte And Aricie / The Fourth Door (Dub) / Neapolitan Sixth (Part 1) / Neapolitan Sixth (Part 3) / The Third Dream / The Fourth Door
Recorded at Falkoner Studio, Jan. - March 1985
http://www.discogs.com/Regular-Music-Regular-Music/release/720277

EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL
' Eden '
[ 1984 LP, Rough trade | #_ ]
/ _____
"Their first album was released in 1984 in the UK as Eden. 1984 also saw the UK release of singles "Mine", and "Native Land". Their first UK hit single, "Each and Every One", had a jazzy sound, and E.B.T.G. was considered part of the jazz/pop movement known as sophisti-pop that included other British acts like Sade, Matt Bianco, and The Style Council, on whose Café Bleu album they guested. E.B.T.G. and Sade both worked with producer Robin Millar and engineers Ben Rogan and Mike Pela for their debut albums." (from Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_but_the_girl

EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL
' Everything but the girl '
[ 1984 LP, Sire/Blanco Y Negro | #1-25212 ]
/ _____
"Although Eden was released in the UK, a different recording, Everything But the Girl, was released in the United States. The U.S. release contained about half the tracks from 'Eden', along with some different tracks, including 'Mine' and 'Native Land'. The U.S. release balanced the bossa nova stylings of the British version with a more folk rock aesthetic, helping to establish the group's eclectic musicality." (from Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_but_the_girl

LORA LOGIC
' Pedigree Charm '
[ 1982 LP, Rough trade | #_ ]
/ Brute Fury / Horrible Party / Stop Halt / Wonderful Offer / Martian Man / Hiss and Shake / Pedigree Charm / go to orangaural / Crystal Gazing
http://members.iglou.com/artbear/logic.html
http://www.furious.com/Perfect/essentiallogic.html

The RAINCOATS
' Odyshape '
[ 1981 LP, Rough trade | album]
Charles Hayward plays drums on
/ Family Treet / Only Loved at Night / Baby Song / Go Away
"in 1980 (...) the band began recording their second album Odyshape, and toured Europe and the east coast of the USA. Guest musicians on Odyshape included Robert Wyatt, This Heat's Charles Hayward and Richard Dudanski." (from Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raincoats

801
' 801 Live '
[ 1976 LP, Polydor 2302 044 | album, live ]
!!!!! N.B. ! Charles Hayward does NOT play here BUT his composition "RONGWRONG" (originally released by QUIET SUN) is performed by 801 as #4 of Side 1. This recording is quite famous : the webmaster takes the responsability to think that this is an important information. Hereunder the complete track-listing:
A1: Lagrima (Manzanera) / A2: T.N.K. (Tomorrow Never Knows) (Lennon / McCartney) / A3: East Of Asteroid (MacCormick , Manzanera) / A4: RONGWRONG (Charles Hayward) / A5: Sombre Reptiles (Eno) / B1: Baby's On Fire (Eno) / B2: Diamond Head (Manzanera) / B3: Miss Shapiro (Eno, Manzanera) / B4: You Really Got Me (Davies) / B5: Third Uncle (Eno)
http://www.manzanera.com/801LivePR.htm#Press
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/801_(band)
http://www.discogs.com/801-801-Live/release/365832

PHIL MANZANERA
' Diamond Head '
[ 1975 LP Atco - E'G CD / #EGCD19 | tt:42'25'']
Charles Hayward plays percussion
/ Frontera / Diamond Head / Big Day / The Flex / Same Time Next Week / Miss Shapiro / East of Echo / Lagrima / Alma
"Diamond Head' was Phil's first solo project. Recorded in 1974 and 1975, it was released to widespread critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic in early summer 1975. Featuring several Roxy colleagues, the ubiquitous Brian Eno, his previous band 'Quiet Sun' and a host of top British musicians, 'Diamond Head' is a classic mixture of great songs and top performances. " (from www.manzanera.com)
http://www.manzanera.com/diamondhead.htm
http://www.manzanera.com/diamondhead2.htm  
 
 

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