Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

After Dinner

After Dinner / Live Editions

(ReR Megacorp, RéR ADCD1) (UK) (CD)

After Dinner

  1. After Dinner (5:23)
  2. Sepia-ture (1:41)
  3. An Accelerating Etude (4:13)
  4. Sonya-doll (3:03)
  5. Shovel & Little Lady (2:32)
  6. Cymbals at Dawn (4:27)
  7. Glass Tube (5:55)
  8. Dessert (3:35)
  9. Sepia-ture II (2:21)

Live Editions (1986 - 1990)

  1. A Walnut (4:05)
  2. Cymbals at Dawn (3:48)
  3. RE (4:00)
  4. Kitchen Life (3:32)
  5. Glass Tube (4:13)
  6. The Variation of "Would you like some mushroom?" (3:45)
  7. Ironclad Mermaid (4:12)
  8. After Dinner (5:07)
  9. The Room of Hair-Mobile (5:31)

All music and lyrics by Haco, except (8) by After Dinner, (12) by Tadahiko Yokogawa

After Dinner:
Haco: vocals, keyboards, tapes (3, 4)
Miyuki Komori: guitar (1, 6-8), drums (1, 2, 6, 7, 9), bass (2, 7, 9)
Yasushi Utsunomiya: synthesizer, voice (1, 6), glass tube, bass (7)
Tadahiko Yokogawa: bass (2, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16-18), violin (2, 9, 12), mandolin (10, 13), vocal (12)
Chaka: bass, percussion (1, 6)
Manabu Shimura: piano (1 ,6)
Kogaibou-Senkyu Okuda: tabla (8), yan-ch'in (15)
Masaaki Kawaguchi: snare drum (2, 9), surumondal (8)
Teppu Maeda: Indian pipe, voice (8)
Masaharu Ito: marching drums (6), soprano sax (9)
Seiichi Kuroda: tenor sax (9), bass (10, 11, 14, 17)
Kaname Nakagawa: alto sax (9)
Yukio Fujimoto: field work (5)
Toru Simura: field work (5)
Yoko Inui: field work (5)
Ayami Torii: field work (5)
Shinichiro Taniguchi: narration of B.B.R system
Ichiro Inoue: percussion (10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17), taiko (13, 16)
Mutsuhiko Izumi: guitar (10, 11, 14, 17)
Hideyuki Yamagata: drums (10, 11, 14, 17)
Yosuke Isshiki: piano (13, 16-18), percussion (17)
Takumi Fukushima: violin (13, 16, 18)
Masahiro Kitada: steel drum (15)
Naoki Yamada: prepared guitar (15)

Tracks 1-9 previously issued as After Dinner (1984)
Track 12 from RéR Quarterly Vol. I No. 4 (1986)
Tracks 10, 11, 14, 17 from Souvenir Cassette (1988)

After Dinner
Recorded and mixed at M.U.E. studio, 1981-1983
Engineered by Yasushi Utsunomiya, and Haco (3, 4)

Live Editions
Recorded live at Museum Square in Osaka, Japan on February 2, 1986 (12); Hosei University in Tokyo, Japan on April 11, 1987 (17); De Lindenberg in Nijmegen, the Netherlands on June 17, 1987 (14, 17); Melkweg in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on June 21, 1987 (17); I.C.A. in London, UK on June 24, 1987 (14, 17); Rote Fabrik in Zürich, Switzerland on June 28, 1987 (11, 14, 17); at the MIMI Festival in St. Rémy de Provence, France on July 2, 1987 (10, 17); Gradisca D'Isonzo in Gorizia, Italy on December 20, 1989 (18); Fri-Son in Fribourg, Switzerland on December 22, 1989 (13); and Xebec Hall in Kobe, Japan on April 28, 1990 (15, 16)
Direction and engineering: Yasushi Utsunomiya (10, 11, 14, 17) and Yoshihiro Kawasaki (13, 18)
Studio work: Haco (Souvenir Cassette-phase matrix surround mix)
Edited by After Dinner at Xebec studio in Kobe

Photography: Hideto Uchiike
Cover design: Takao Sugano
Produced by After Dinner

Released 1991