Charles Hayward

MONKEY PUZZLE TRIO

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A long term slowly evolving music project featuring This Heat drummer/lynchpin Charles Hayward, Pinski Zoo and Crackle bassist Nick Doyne-Ditmas and the words, voice and textures of avant-vocalist Viv Corringham, whose music walks a tightrope between song, improvisation and sound-as-sound.

Their debut album ‘White World’ – released on forward thinking indie label Slowfoot – lays down the blueprint for their sound: music driven by the restless energy, invention and power of Hayward’s drumming and underpinned by the languid and exploratory double bass playing of Nick Doyne-Ditmas, to which Viv Corringham adds, with the aid ofa loop pedal, her unique collage of words and sounds…

“We are making new song forms based on live improvisation. Every song is created in the actual moment of performance. I arrive at each gig with a fresh stack of lyrics and choose which one to use as the song starts to unfold. The words I write come from everyday things: one half of a mobile conversation overheard on the bus, a list of contents read on a minidisk cover, someone talking about home, or a partly remembered story that comes to mind. I spend a lot of my time wandering around and recording the sounds I hear. Some of these sounds have found their way into the songs.” [V.C]

Together they create a distinctive sound world which is exhilarating and immersive and relies on the sensitivity and experience of all three musicians.

WEBSITE: www.slowfoot.co.uk
MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/monkeypuzzletrio

Artist – MONKEY PUZZLE TRIO
Title – WHITE WORLD
Format – CD album + Download
Cat.no – SLOCD012
Label – Slowfoot Records
Distributor – Kudos
Release date – 20th SEPTEMBER 2010
Barcode – 5060039070134
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ABOUT : Alexis Taylor (from Hot Chip), John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack), Pat Thomas and Charles Hayward.
We'll be playing at The ICA LONDON as part of the 'Calling Out Of Context' on NOVEMBER 21st.





"UNTITLED / UNMIXED" filmed by Lewis Hayward

unedited film of recording session for future release.
[ALEXIS TAYLOR/JOHN COXON/PAT THOMAS/CHARLES HAYWARD]





FREQ: 'It was an amazing outpouring of energy; it’s contagious.
CH: 'That’s the idea of it.'




CHARLES HAYWARD
(Photo: courtesy of the Wire Magazine)



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CLEAR FRAME
NEW RELEASE 2008 :
CLEAR FRAME is Lol COXHILL, Charles HAYWARD, Hugh HOPPER, Orphy ROBINSON
with special-guest-cornet ROBERT WYATT

→ More about CLEAR FRAME (press release)
→ More about CONTINUITY... label






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ALBERT NEWTON
Charles Hayward (drums), Harry Beckett (trumpet),
Pat Thomas (keyboards) and John Edwards (double bass)

Albert Newton, Bar Sonic, Deptford 08.03.08 from nearer dark on Vimeo.



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MASSACRE !
2008, JUN. 22 ATERFORUM FEST. Ferrara IT
2008, FEB. 22 SONS D'HIVER FEST. Creteil FR / Maison des Arts de C.
(please see details in the live box)


[ Fred Frith, Charles Hayward, Bill Lawsell ]
photos © Didier Adam



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Charles Hayward: A cynical careerist narrative



[ Charles Hayward live, 2006 ] photo © Mark Pilkington..


Charles Hayward
is known as the pioneering drummer with This Heat
[‘OUT OF COLD STORAGE box’ cd recently released]
and Camberwell Now,
an ever growing list of solo concerts and cds
[most recent release ‘Abracadabra Information’ on Locus Solus label],
special collaborative performances,
and is in Massacre with Bill Laswell and Fred Frith.


Committed to song ‘but the shapes have to change’,
his current one-man show is an intoxicating mix of
percussive attack, swirling electronics and lyrical fragment collage.


[Jean-Herve Peron/Faust]
'He sweats, there is saliva coming out of his mouth,
and he looks ugly and beautiful at the same time and he is there.’
[Sound Projector]
‘Telepathic magic……. Hayward is
one of the most life-affirming people who stalks this dark globe.’
[Freq.co.uk]
‘Awesome.’


Biography



Charles Hayward (born 1951)
is an English drummer and was a
founder member of the experimental rock group THIS HEAT.

He also played with Mal Dean's Amazing Band, Radar FavouritesDolphin Logic, and gigged and recorded with Phil Manzanera in the group Quiet Sun project as well as a short stint with Gong

In 1976, Hayward and fellow Radar Favourites and Dolphin Logic member, Charles BULLEN began practising with bassist Gareth WILLIAMS under the name This Heat. They began to experiment with tape loops, found sounds and keyboards on several sessions (recorded from 1976 to 1978, but not released until 1979). Finally, in 1979, This Heat released their self-titled debut album. 1981's Deceit marked the final new album from This Heat, Williams leaving just after its release. While Bullen began working as a studio engineer, Hayward did sessions for Lora Logic, the Raincoats and Everything But the Girl before forming CAMBERWELL NOW with bassist Trefor Goronwy and tape manipulator Stephen Rickard. The trio released several albums through the Swiss Recommended label. When Camberwell Now disbanded in 1987 Hayward embarked on a solo career which has continued to the present day. He debuted with Survive the Gesture (1987), Skew-whiff (1989) Switch on War (1991) and My Secret Alphabet (with Nick Doyne-Ditmas) in 1993. In 1998, he joined Massacre with Fred Frith and Bill Laswell.


Charles Hayward at the Old Blue Last, UK - 7/11/06


Throughout the 90's up to the present he has initiated a bewildering array of events and performances , including the widely acclaimed series Accidents + Emergencies at the Albany Theatre, Out of Body Orchestra (too much sound, not enough space, not enough time), music made from the sound of the new LABAN dance centre being built which was choreographed for the official opening, music for a circus (part of the National Theatre's 'Art of Regeneration' initiative), the full-on installation/performance Anti-Clockwise (with Ashleigh Marsh and David Aylward) for multiple strobes, maze structure of diverse textures, 2 drummers, synthesizers and your nervous system. Recent developements include the Continuity evenings as part of Camberwell Arts.


As well as his solo performance, Charles is currently involved in 3 other central projects:

***** SHAPE MORETON *****
with Charles HAYWARD, Ashleigh MARSH, Nick DOYNE-DITMAS, Rob MILLS, Chris CORNETTO. "the first fully-fledged group project that This Heat and Camberwell Now drummer/lynchpin Charles Hayward has put together for nearly twenty years..."
***** ALBERT NEWTON *****
with Harry Beckett, John Edwards and Pat Thomas has been playing since its first performance at Accidents and Emergencies in the mid-90's, essential players in the improv scene play a revolutionary extended quantum-funk that is a celebration of creative telepathy.
***** CLEAR FRAME *****
with Lol Coxhill, Hugh Hopper and Orphy Robinson is soon to release its first CD (with special guest Robert Wyatt on cornet) on the new imprint CONTINUITY....


Charles HAYWARD
"Abracadabra Information"
(album, Locus Solus 2004 / LSR005)



Links

CONTINUITY / Camberwell Arts

Discography

http://www.squidco.com/rer/Hayward.Charles.html

Interviews

EN http://www.freq.org.uk/hayward.html
IT http://www.altremusiche.it/sx/testi/interv/hayward.htm
EN http://www.furious.com/perfect/charleshayward.html

More
(This Heat, Camberwell Now, Massacre, Quiet Sun...)

EN http://www.furious.com/perfect/thisheat.html
EN http://www.fantompowa.net/Three Key Sound/ty_this_heat.htm
EN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_(Fred_Frith_band)
EN http://www.manzanera.com/QuietSun1.htm

Labels

CONTINUITY
THIS IS!
Recommended Records
Locus Solus
Sub Rosa


THIS HEAT 'Out of Cold Storage'..
(box set, 2006 - This is / ReR)




***** THE COMPLETE OFFICIAL *****
***** LIFETIME RELEASED OF THIS HEAT *****
This Heat | Deceit | Health and Efficiency
Made Available | Repeat | Live 80/81*
re-mastered and re-packaged,
with a substantial (48pp) book of
interviews, recollections, information,
documents and photographs in a sturdy box,
PLUS * a new CD of concert recordings...
[ Released by ThisIs! / RèR ]




Charles Hayward






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THIS HEAT
"OUT OF COLD STORAGE"





The complete official lifetime releases of This Heat:
This Heat, Deceit, Health and Efficiency,
Made Available and Repeat
re-mastered and re-packaged,
with a substantial (48pp) book of interviews,
recollections, information, documents
and photographs in a sturdy box,
PLUS a new CD of concert recordings...
[Released by ThisIs! / RèR]


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