Euphony (Casiopea album)

Euphony

Studio album by Casiopea

Released

April 25, 1988

Recorded

at Studio Jive, Tokyo. from January 7 to February 5, 1988.

Length

40:55

Polydor K.K. / AURA 28MX-2549

Issei Noro, Shunsuke Miyazumi

Casiopea chronology

Platinum
(1987)

Euphony
(1988)

Casiopea World Live '88
(1988)

Singles from Euphony

"Bayside Express/Taiyo-Fu H10P-30002"
Released: April 25, 1988

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Euphony is the eighteenth album released by the jazz fusion group Casiopea in 1988.

Contents

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

Track listing

Side A
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Taiyo-Fu" (The Wind From The Sun)	Issei Noro	4:13
2.	"Shadow Man"	Issei Noro	4:07
3.	"Super Sonic Movement"	Issei Noro	4:24
4.	"Inishie" (Old Times)	Minoru Mukaiya	3:44
5.	"Bayside Express"	Issei Noro	4:54

Side B
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Sentimental Avenue"	Issei Noro	3:25
2.	"Solid Swing"	Akira Jimbo	1:58
3.	"Hacker"	Minoru Mukaiya	3:25
4.	"Pure Green"	Issei Noro	4:10
5.	"Red Zone"	Tetsuo Sakurai	3:07
6.	"Mei-Mu" (Shallow Dreams)	Issei Noro	3:58

Re-released in 2009 with "Halle" (live version) added to the track listing.

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Electric guitar (YAMAHA ISSEI MODEL, G10 Guitar MIDI Controller with TX802 & D-50, RX-5), Acoustic guitar (D'AGOSTINO GUITAR)

Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards (YAMAHA KX-88, DX-7, TX-816, TX-16W, QX-3, RX-5, EMULATOR II, KORG DSM-1, Acoustic Piano, ROLAND D-50 & D-550, DYNACORD ADD-one, OBERHEIM EXPANDER)

Tetsuo Sakurai - Electric Bass (YAMAHA BB-5000 & 5000 W/PIEZO PICK UP. STUD Bass, BB-3000 fretless)

Akira Jimbo - Drums (YAMAHA YD-9000 & 6000 Series, ZILDJAN CYMBALS & Hooper Drum)

Production

Producer - Issei Noro, Shunsuke Miyazumi
Executive Producer - Katsuki Hagiwara, Shinichi Toyama
Director - Koichi Nakagawa

Recording & Mixing Engineers - Koji Sugimori
Mastering Engineers - Mitsuharu Kobayashi
Digital Editing Engineer - Kazumi Sugiura
Assistant Engineers - Hiroyuki Shimura, Yuji Kuraishi, Masashi Kudo

Production management - Masato Arai
Management - Fumiaki Takahashi, Katsuhiro Maruichi, Hisashi Aratake
Equipment Co-Ordinator - Hideji "Mahka" Uekusa

Art Director - Masami Akiyama
Photograph - Osamu Yabushita
Stylist - Reiko Ohishi
Hair & Make - Tadamichi Hiwatashi
Visual Supervisor - Masahiro Tomioka

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	note
Japan	April 25, 1988^[2]	Polydor K.K. / AURA	stereo LP	28MX-2549	30 cm
Japan	April 25, 1988^[2]	Polydor K.K. / AURA	CD	H33P-20241
Japan	July 1, 1992^[2]	Polydor K.K. / AURA	CD	POCH-1222
Japan	June 24, 2009^[2]	Universal Music LLC / AURA	remastered CD	UPCY-6539	SHM-CD

References

^ Allmusic review
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Yahoo!Music Casiopea EUPHONY". Yahoo!Music. Yahoo Japan Corporation. http://music.yahoo.co.jp/shop/c/10/28mx2549/1/. Retrieved 2009-08-01.