Down Upbeat

Down Upbeat
Studio album by Casiopea
Released	October 25, 1984
Recorded	secret sound studio, New York from July 24 to August 4, 1984
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	38:30
Label	Alfa Records ALR-28063
Producer	Shunsuke Miyazumi, Issei Noro
Casiopea chronology
The Soundgraphy (1984) Down Upbeat (1984) Halle (1985)
Singles from Down Upbeat
"Zoom/Down Upbeat ALR-12002" Released: January 25, 1985

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Down Upbeat is twelvth album by Casiopea, recorded and released in 1984.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Production 4 Release history 5 References

Track listing

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Electric guitar (YAMAHA SG-2000 Fretless)

Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards (YAMAHA DX-1, DX-7, ROLAND VP-330)

Tetsuo Sakurai - Electric Bass (YAMAHA BB-3000 5-strings, BB-2000)

Akira Jimbo - Drums (YAMAHA YD-9000RG, Simmons SDS-5, Zildjan Symbals, AMDECK PCK-100)

• Digital drum percussion programming by Issei Noro and Minoru Mukaiya

Production

• Produced by Shunsuke Miyazumi and Issei Noro
• Engineered by Rik Pekkonen
• Assisted by Warren Bruleigh
• Mastered by Bernie Grundman

• Digital Technicians - John Butherford, David Satz
• Project Co-ordinators - Jay Durgain, Edward Leaman

• Designer - Kaoru Watanabe, Hiroyasu Yoshioka, Katsunori Hironaka
• Photographer - Yukio Ichikawa

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	October 25, 1984	Alfa Records	stereo LP	ALR-28063	30cm
Japan	October 25, 1984	Alfa Records	CD	38XA-25
Japan	January 25, 1987	Alfa Records	CD	32XA-119
Japan	March 21, 1992[2]	Alfa Records	CD	ALCA-282
Japan	August 31, 1994[2]	Alfa Records	CD	ALCA-9012
Japan	August 29, 1998[2]	Alfa Records	CD	ALCA-9207
Japan	January 23, 2002[2]	Village Records	remastered CD	VRCL-2212	DSD, LP paper jacket
Japan	February 14, 2002[2]	Village Records	remastered CD	VRCL-2232	DSD
Japan	May 27, 2009[2]	Sony Music Direct	remastered CD	MHCL-20014	DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket

References