Hearty Notes

HEARTY NOTES
Studio album by Casiopea
Released	August 24, 1994
Recorded	at Studio Jive, Tokyo and Audio Resource Honolulu, Honolulu 1994
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	42:48
Label	Alfa Records ALCA-5007
Producer	Casiopea
Casiopea chronology
Answers (1994) Hearty Notes (1994) Asian Dreamer (1994)

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Hearty Notes is Casiopea's nineteenth Studio Album, and the first one in which All 4 Members play Acoustic Instruments. This style is referenced on an acoustic version of their 1983 Classic , "Lookin' Up", featured on their 1994 album, "Asian Dreamer", and again on Casiopea's "Seasons" from their 1996 Album "Flowers".

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

Track listing

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Acoustic Guitars

Minoru Mukaiya - Acoustic Piano

Yoshihiro Naruse - Fretless Bass

Noriaki Kumagai - drums

Production

• Sound Produced - CASIOPEA
• Executive Producer: Yoshiaki Mizutani

• Recording Engineer - Hiroyuki Shimura (1,3,4,5,6,7,8,10), Ross Cockle (2,9)
• Mixing Engineer - Hiroyuki Shimura
• Mastering Engineer - Tohru Kotetsu
• Assistant Engineer - Masashi Yanagisawa(Studio Jive), Porter Miller

• Instruments Technician - Yasushi Horiuchi
• Basses Build Up Technician - Yoshiki Murayama

• Art Direction & Design - Shigekazu Tsujimori
• Digital Art & Design - Keiko Akiyama
• Photograph - Junichi Takahashi, Hiroshi Nameta, Shigekazu Tsujimori, Keiko Akiyama

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	August 24, 1994[2]	Alfa Records	CD	ALCA-5007
Japan	February 20, 2002[2]	Village Records	remastered CD	VRCL-2218	DSD, LP paper jacket
Japan	March 13, 2002[2]	Village Records	remastered CD	VRCL-2238	DSD
Japan	May 27, 2009[2]	Sony Music Direct	remastered CD	MHCL-20020	DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket

References