Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Charles Hayward

Double Agent(s)

Live in Japan Volume Two

(Locus Solus, LSR 002) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Split Personalities (13:09)
  2. Neurological Focus Shift (4:35)
  3. Crisis on Earth Two (12:28)
  4. Parallel Universe (11:58)
  5. Crisis on Earth Three (19:07)
  6. The Most Dangerous Earth of All (8:52)

Charles Hayward: drums, voice, tapes, melodica, whistles, percussion

Peter Brötzmann (4-6): tenor sax, clarinets
Keiji Haino (1, 5, 6): guitar, voice
Yoshihide Otomo (3): turntables, CD player, sampler
Tatsuya Yoshida (2): drums, voice

Recorded live by Kohei Amano at La Mama in Shibuya, Tokyo on April 29, 1996 (1, 4-6), and at Show Boat in Koenji, Tokyo on April 27, 1996 (2, 3)
Mixed by Dominique Brethes at Wolf Studios in London, September 1996
Produced by Charles Hayward
Cover by Charles Hayward and Sue Lawes
Drawings: Charles, Lesley, Lewis and Merlin Hayward
Photos by Lesley Evans and Eiji Hirayama
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Atsushi Sasaki and Charles Hayward (translation by Haruna Ito)

Released 1998