Live in Japan (Slapp Happy album)

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Live in Japan
Live in Japan cover
Live album by Slapp Happy
Released 2001
Recorded Japan, 2000
Genre Avant-progressive rock
Length 55:21
Label FMN (Japan)
Producer 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

[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

[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

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