Improvised Music from Japan / Discography
After Dinner

Paradise of Replica / Paradise of Remixes

(Detector, MP-24) (USA) (CD)
(ReR Megacorp, ReR AD2) (UK) (CD)
(Bad News Records, BN-143) (Japan) (CD)

Paradise of Replica

  1. Paradise of Replica (3:28)
  2. A Walnut (4:27)
  3. Kitchen Life I (2:06)
  4. Motercycle (1:19)
  5. Kitchen Life II (1:22)
  6. Ironclad Mermaid (4:42)
  7. Dancing Twins (0:58)
  8. KA-NO-PU-SU-NO-HA-KO (7:51)
  9. I'll Just Go Birdwatching (3:13)

Paradise of Remixes

  1. Akai Kutsu no Ningyo (Red-Shoed Mermaid) / Pascal Plantinga (7:50)
  2. Paradaisu (Imada Kuufuku) / Terre Thaemlitz (10:06)
  3. A/B-ing the Bird / Skist (6:32)
  4. Reflector / Joshua McKay (5:41)

After Dinner:
Haco: vocals, volley ball (7), tapes (8)
Yosuke Isshiki: keyboards, pin-hammer piano (5), percussion (2, 3, 6, 8)
Masahiro Kitada: rhythm box and keyboards (1, 5), soroba-tone (2), drums (2, 3), guitars (3), toms (6)
Tadahiko Yokogawa: keyboards (1), electric bass (6, 8), percussion (8, 9), charango (9)

Ichiro Inoue: percussion (1, 3, 6), indian harp (1), yanch'in (1), glockenspiel (2)
Ryo Okuda: yanch'in (1), jew's harp (1), percussion (1, 8)
Seiichi Kuroda: tung-siao (4), hichiriki (7, 8), percussion (8)
Hideaki Yamagata: drums (6, 8), tambourine (8)
Takumi Fukushima: violin (6-9)
Naoki Yamada: acoustic guitars (8)
Masakazu Kinoshita: pianica (2)
Junji Naoe: clarinet (2)
Kazumi Matsumura: cello (6-9)
Takaaki Miyazaki: tenor sax (2, 4, 7)
Shoichi Miyamoto: flute (2, 4)
Izumi Yae: oboe (2, 7, 8)

"Paradise of Replica"

Music and words by Haco (1-7, 9), and music by Tadahiko Yokogawa and words by Haco (8)
Arranged by After Dinner
Pre-recorded by Haco and Yosuke Isshiki
Recorded by Masakazu Kinoshita and After Dinner at Studio 8 in Ashiya, June-September 1989
Mixed by Yoshihiro Kawasaki and After Dinner at Hermes Studio and Xebec Studio

"Paradise of Remixes"

Track 10:
Remixed by Pascal Plantinga
Recorded at Ata Tak in Düsseldorf, 2000
Engineered by Kurt Dahlke

Track 11:
Additional editing and production by Terre Thaemlitz, courtesy of Comatonse Recordings, 2000
Recorded at Meow in Oakland

Track 12:
Remixed by Skist (haruna ito and Samm Bennett)
Recorded at Polarity in Tokyo, 2000
Stereo field rearrangement by Haco

Track 13:
Remixed by Joshua McKay from Macha
Drums by Keith Crutchfield
Technical assistance: Dan Geller
Mastered by Glenn Schick in Atlanta, 2000



Mastered by Haco at Mescalina, and Tetsuya Kotani at Omega Sound in 2000
Art Direction: MGX
Photography: Hideto Uchiike

Released January 2001