Paradise of Replica
by After Dinner
- Type: Album
- Released: March 1989
- Label: Zero
- Country: Japan
- Length: 29:42
- Community rating: 3.57/5 from 5 ratings
Artists on this release: Takaaki Miyazaki, Takumi Fukushima, Shoichi Miyamoto, Tadahiko Yokogawa, Naoki Yamada, Masahiro Kitada, Yosuke Isshiki, Hideaki Yamagata, Ryo Okuda, Junji Naoe, Kazumi Matsumura, Izumi Yae
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Led by the distinctive vocals of Haco, 'Paradise of Replica' is a brilliantly complex and surreal masterpiece of Japanese art pop. After Dinner masterfully blends progressive pop instrumentation with traditional folk elements, creating an incredibly lush, eclectic, and uniquely quirky melodic experience.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, complex, melodic, rhythmic, experimental
Tracklist
Credits
- After Dinner - primary artist, arranged by, mixed by, recorded by
- Takao Sugano - design [art design]
- Rico Sonderegger - lacquer cut by
- Yoshihiro Kawasaki - mixed by
- Hideto Uchiike - photography by
- Yosuke Isshiki - piano, keyboards, percussion, piano [pin hammer]
- Masakazu Kinoshita - recorded by
- Hiroki Ohira - translated by
- Michie Nakatani - translated by
- Steve Davis - translated by
- Haco - vocals, written-by, lyrics by, producer, performer [volleyball], tape
- Masahiro Kitada - electronic drums, keyboards, drums, performer [soroba-tone], drums, guitar, percussion
- Ichiro Inoue - harp [indian], percussion, yang t'chin [yanch'in], glockenspiel
- Ryo Okuda - jew's harp, percussion, yang t'chin [yanch'in]
- Tadahiko Yokogawa - keyboards, bass, percussion, written-by [co-written], percussion, charango
- Junji Naoe - clarinet
- Shoichi Miyamoto - flute
- Masazaku Kinoshita - melodica [pianica]
- Izumi Yae - oboe
- Takaaki Miyazaki - tenor saxophone
- Seiichi Kuroda - performer [tung-siao], hichiriki, percussion
- Kazumi Matsumura - cello
- Hideaki Yamagata - drums, drums, tambourine
- Takumi Fukushima - violin
- Naoki Yamada - acoustic guitar