After Dinner

After Dinner was formed in 1981 by Haco, a vocalist who wrote both the lyrics and music. The group had a fluid line-up with members from many varied musical backgrounds brought together according to each recording or live performance project. Their collective backgrounds encompass new wave, Japanese traditional, contemporary music, and avant-garde rock.

In 1982, German national radio selected the band’s first single (EP), After Dinner / Cymbals at Dawn (Kagero Records, Japan) and placed it on their permanent playlist. In 1983, The album (LP), Glass Tube (Kang-Gang, Japan), was released domestically, and distributed abroad where it received much attention in the European and American “free music” scenes. Sounds, the British music paper, described the record as a unique fusion of Japanese traditional music and electronics “with the delicious voice of Haco holding things together.” In 1984, the band made their foreign debut with the album (LP), After Dinner (Recommended Records, UK). In 1987, the group was invited to perform at France’s Mimi Festival, and did their first European tour. The band’s concert at ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) received the unanimous praise of music publications such as NME, LAM, and Melody Maker, which commented that After Dinner was helping to “reverse Japan’s massive importation of Western mega-pop.

Paradise of Replica

1. Paradise of Replica (3:26)
2. A Walnut (4:27)
3. Kitchen Life I (2:05)
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 (7:50)
9. I'll just go birdwatching (3:14) 

After Dinner / Live Editions

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)

10. A Walnut (4:05)
11. Cymbals at Dawn (3:48)
12. RE (4:00)
13. Kitchen Life (3:32)
14. Glass Tube (4:13)
15. The Variation of "Would you like some mushroom?" (3:45)
16. Ironclad Mermaid (4:12)
17. After Dinner (5:07)
18. The Room of Hair-Mobile (5:31)

Glass Tube

1. Sepia-ture I (1:37)
2. An Accelerating Etude (4:12)
3. Soknya-doll (3:04)
4. Shovel & Little Lady (2:35)
5. Désert (2:06)
6. Glass Tube (5:51)
7. Dessért (2:47)
8. Sepia-ture II (2:27)
9. The Room of Hair-mobile [bonus track] (3:17)

Disc 2 (miniCD)

1. After Dinner (5:20)
2. Cymbals at Dawn (4:20)

Paradise of Replica + After Dinner / Live Editions + Glass Tube