Platinum (Casiopea album)

Platinum is the seventeenth album released by the jazz fusion group Casiopea in 1987. The album featured a cover of "Bridge Over Troubled Water"--a song originally written by Paul Simon.

1 Track listing
- 1.1 LP(28MX-2544) Track listing
- 1.2 CD(UPCY-6538) Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Production
4 Release history
5 References

Track listing

LP(28MX-2544) Track listing

Side A
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Access"	-	Issei Noro	3:49
2.	"Akasha"	Tetsuo Sakurai	Issei Noro	4:05
3.	"Magnetic Vibration"	-	Tetsuo Sakurai	4:24
4.	"Me Espere"	Djavan	Akira Jimbo	3:19
5.	"Do-Loo-Doo?"	-	Issei Noro	3:56

Side B
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Get Back To That Good Thing"	Andy Heermans, Tommy Mandel	Andy Heermans, Tommy Mandel	4:01
2.	"Princess Moon"	-	Issei Noro	4:21
3.	"Sunset Rhapsody"	-	Minoru Mukaiya, Issei Noro	3:19
4.	"SUNCA" (賛歌)	-	Issei Noro	4:38
5.	"Bridge Over Troubled Water"	Paul Simon	Paul Simon	4:09

CD(UPCY-6538) Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Access"	-	Issei Noro	3:49
2.	"Akasha"	Tetsuo Sakurai	Issei Noro	4:05
3.	"Magnetic Vibration"	-	Tetsuo Sakurai	4:24
4.	"Me Espere"	Djavan	Akira Jimbo	3:19
5.	"Do-Loo-Doo?"	-	Issei Noro	3:56
6.	"Get Back To That Good Thing"	Andy Heermans, Tommy Mandel	Andy Heermans, Tommy Mandel	4:01
7.	"Princess Moon"	-	Issei Noro	4:21
8.	"Sunset Rhapsody"	-	Minoru Mukaiya, Issei Noro	3:19
9.	"Believe in Yourself" (CD Bonus track)	JESSIE	Yukou Kusunoki	4:38
10.	"SUNCA" (賛歌)	-	Issei Noro	4:38
11.	"Bridge Over Troubled Water"	Paul Simon	Paul Simon	4:09
12.	"Asayake (Live)" (This is the bonus track featured on the 2009 Reissue of "Euphony" that was part of the Box Set called "Legend of Casiopea", released in commemoration of their 30th Anniversary. This track was also featured on the 1992 Reissue of Casiopea World Live '88.)	-	Issei Noro	5:12

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Electric guitar (YAMAHA ISSEI MODEL, FRETLESS GUITAR) Acoustic guitar (D'AGOSTINO GUITAR)

Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards (YAMAHA DX-7, KX-88, TX-816, QX-1, KORG DSS-1, DSM-1, SG-1, ROLAND D-50, SBX-80 & Acoustic Piano)

Tetsuo Sakurai - Electric Bass (YAMAHA TETSUO MODEL, BB-5000, Kramer Electric Bass)

Akira Jimbo - Drums (YAMAHA YD-9000 Series, PTT-1, PMC-1, RX-5, AKAI S-900, ZILDJAN CYMBALS, SIMMONS SDS-V)

Additional Musicians

Yukou Kusunoki - Lead Vocal on A2, B1, B5, C9
Djavan - Vocal on A4
Background Vocal on A2, A5, B1 - Cedric Samson, Dina Miller, Amanda Blue, Issei Noro, Yukoh Kusunoki
Background Vocal on A1 - Issei Noro, Yukoh Kusunoki
Background Vocal on B4 - Issei Noro, Tetsuo Sakurai, Minoru Mukaiya, Yukoh Kusunoki
Steve Thornton - Latin Percussion on A3, B3, B5
Earl Gardner - Trumpet on A5, B5
Alex Foster - Alto sax on A5,B5
Lenny Pickett - Tenor sax, Baritone sax on A5, B5
Horns Arrangements - Issei Noro, Lenny Pickett
Additional Synthesizer & Programing on B1 - Andy Herrmans

Production

Producer - Issei Noro, Shunsuke Miyazumi
Engineer - Andy Heermans, Les Brockman
Assistant Engineers - Mark Partis, Bryan Rutter
Mixing Engineers - Andy Heermans

Executive Producer - Katsuki Hagiwara, Shinichi Toyama
Production management - Masato Arai
Management - Osamu Takagi, Fumiaki Takahashi, Katsuhiro Maruichi

Art Direction Design and Illustration - Mitsuo Katsui
Visual Supervisor - Masahiro Tomioka, Miyuki Sawa

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	note
Japan	September 1, 1987^[2]	Polydor K.K. / AURA	stereo LP	28MX-2544	30 cm
Japan	September 1, 1987^[2]	Polydor K.K. / AURA	CD	H33P-20176
Japan	July 1, 1992^[2]	Polydor K.K. / AURA	CD	POCH-1221
Japan	June 24, 2009^[2]	Universal Music LLC / AURA	remastered CD	UPCY-6538	SHM-CD

References

^ Allmusic review
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Yahoo!Music Casiopea PLATINUM". Yahoo!Music. Yahoo Japan Corporation. http://music.yahoo.co.jp/shop/c/10/28mx2544. Retrieved 2009-08-01.