Live in Japan (Slapp Happy album)

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Live in Japan
Live album by Slapp Happy
Released	2001
Recorded	Japan, 2000
Genre	Avant-progressive rock
Length	55:21
Label	FMN Records (Japan)
Producer(s)	Anthony Moore
Slapp Happy chronology
Ça Va (1998)	Live in Japan (2001)	–

Live in Japan is a 2001 live album by German/British avant-garde pop group Slapp Happy, recorded in Tokyo, Sapporo and Kyoto, Japan in May 2000. They performed without any backing musicians and played all the instruments themselves. Material for this album was drawn from four of their studio albums, Sort Of, Slapp Happy/Acnalbasac Noom, Desperate Straights and Ça Va.

A limited bonus single "Carolie" was released with the album in Japan only.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 2.1 Production 3 External links

[edit] Track listing

1. "King of Straw" (Blegvad/Gregson) – 3:17
2. "Slow Moon's Rose" (Moore) – 3:52
3. "Michelangelo" (Blegvad/Moore) – 2:47
4. "Riding Tigers" (Blegvad) – 2:00
5. "Small Hands of Stone" (Blegvad/Moore) – 3:23
6. "Haiku" (Blegvad/Moore) – 3:58
7. "Is it You?" (Krause/Moore) – 5:26
8. "Casablanca Moon" ((Blegvad/Moore) – 3:05
9. "Moon Lovers" (Krause/Latham) – 2:51
10. "Strayed" (Blegvad) – 2:13
11. "A Little Something" (Blegvad) – 3:51
12. "I'm All Alone" (Moore) – 3:49
13. "The Unborn Byron" (Blegvad/Moore) – 2:50
14. "Scattered for Life" (Blegvad) – 3:37
15. "Who's Gonna Help Me Now?" (Blegvad/Moore) – 3:16
16. "Let's Travel Light" (Blegvad) – 4:54

Bonus single

1. "Carolie" (Moore) – 5:24

[edit] Personnel

• Anthony Moore – keyboards, guitar, vocals, harmonica, shaker
• Peter Blegvad – guitar, vocals, percussion, harmonica
• Dagmar Krause – vocals, percussion, keyboards, harmonica

[edit] Production

Recorded live in May 2000 at Star Pine's Cafe in Tokyo, at Bessie Hall in Sapporo and at Seibu Auditorium in Kyoto.

• Anthony Moore – edited, mixed and mastered
• Peter Blegvad – art direction and lettering on the disk
• Kazuhiro Nishiwaki – illustration and lettering on the cover
• Toshi Ota – photography

[edit] External links

• Air Structures. Slapp Happy.

v • d • e Slapp Happy
Peter Blegvad  •  Dagmar Krause  •  Anthony Moore
Discography
Sort Of (1972)  •  Slapp Happy (1974)  •  Acnalbasac Noom (1980)  •  Ça Va (1998)  •  Live in Japan (2001)
with Henry Cow:  Desperate Straights (1975)  •  In Praise of Learning (1975)
Related bands
Faust  •  Henry Cow