After Dinner

"The Japanese avant-garde pop band strove to create a “sacred ambiance” on their second album, fusing unconventional arrangements with bouncing volleyballs and an eyes-wide air of wonder."
“It’s rare that art-pop matches its extravagance with such alluring modesty. In doing so, Paradise of Replica feels like encountering cinematic spectacles in miniature.”
—Joshua Minsoo Kim (Pitchfork, September 30, 2022)
pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/after-dinner-paradise-of-replica/
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paru le 16 septembre 2022

Personnel:

Haco: all vocals, volley ball (7), tapes (8)
Yosuke Isshiki: all pianos and 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), bass (6, 8), percussion (8, 9), charango (9)

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

Music and words by Haco (1-7, 9), and music by Tadahiko Yokogawa and words by Haco (8) © 1989 [JASRAC]
Arranged and produced by After Dinner
Pre-recorded by Haco and Yosuke Isshiki
Recorded at Studio 8 by/with Masakazu Kinoshita, 1989
Mixed by/with Yoshihiro Kawasaki at Xebec, and Hermes Studio, 1989
Remastered by Haco at Mescalina, and Tetsuya Kotani at Omega Sound, 2000
Translations by Christopher Stephens and Haco

Art direction: Takao Sugano
Photographs: Hideto Uchiike

In the memory of Daniel Waldner (RecRec Music)

Originally released in 1989 as an LP/CD on RecRec Music (CH) /Zero Records (JP), and re-released as a CD edition on ReR Megacorp (UK) /Detector (US) /Bad News (JP) in 2001.
*Vinyl reissue LP is out on Aguirre Records (Belgium), under license from Tribal Market /Haco, in September, 2022.