VINYL FORMAT. Hello is quite an apt name for the new HALF JAPANESE album considering it has been 4 years since their last album. It hasn't been a complete absence since their driving force and principle songwriter JAD FAIR has released a dozen albums in that time under different monikers or together with different bands, such as JAD FAIR & YO LA TENGO, ADULT RODEO, JAD & JASON, STROBE, JAD & KRAMER and soon there will even be a JAD FAIR & TEENAGE FANCLUB release. The last two HALF JAPANESE albums came out in 1997 one of which was entitled Bonehead and released on Alternative Tentacles. JAD FAIR is an international ambassador of rock'n'roll. He really doesn't have a "home" since he is continually travelling around playing live in various line-ups or recording with friends in Switzerland, Canada, Portugal, Scotland, Spain (We will be releasing at least one of those latest collaborations in mid-2001). His main band, HALF JAPANESE that he formed with his brother David over 20 years is continually