Down Upbeat

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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
  1. "Zoom/Down Upbeat ALR-12002"
    Released: January 25, 1985
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Down Upbeat is 12th album by Casiopea, recorded and released in 1984.

Track listing

Side A
No. TitleMusic Length
1. "Zoom"  Issei Noro 3:18
2. "Down Upbeat"  Issei Noro 3:57
3. "The Continental Way"  Issei Noro 4:48
4. "Road Rhythm"  Minoru Mukaiya 3:04
5. "Froufrou"  Akira Jimbo 4:00
Side B
No. TitleMusic Length
1. "Homestretch"  Issei Noro 3:50
2. "Night Storm"  Akira Jimbo 4:13
3. "Cookin' Up"  Minoru Mukaiya 3:37
4. "Twilight Solitude"  Issei Noro 4:26
5. "Air Fantasy"  Tetsuo Sakurai 3:17

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

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Yahoo!Music Casiopea DOWN UPBEAT". Yahoo!Music. Yahoo Japan Corporation. Retrieved 2009-07-25. 
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