Casiopea World Live '88
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| Live album by Casiopea, Spectrum and Tops Horn Section | |||||
| Released | November 25, 1988 | ||||
| Recorded |
July 9, 1988 at Projeto Sp. São Paulo, Brazil, | ||||
| Genre | Jazz fusion | ||||
| Length | 43:41 | ||||
| Label | Polydor K.K. / AURA 28MX-2555 | ||||
| Producer | Issei Noro | ||||
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Casiopea World Live '88 is the fifth live album released by the jazz fusion group Casiopea in 1988. It is a Compilation Album consisting of Recordings of some of their Songs played live and in Concert during Casiopea's World Tour in 1988 that promoted their Previous Album "Euphony". It is also a Collaboration Album with 2 Japanese Horn Sections from 2 other bands. The Brass Section of "Spectrum" and the Brass Section of "The Tops". It is, additionally, the First Album Spectrum has recorded together since their Break-Up in 1981, And is also their Penultimate Album (Their last Album after they Officially broke up was released in 1991 and was a Remix Compilation Album of songs of theirs that were hits in Japan from the late 1970s). Lead Trumpeter/Vocalist of Spectrum, Ichiro Nitta was also the Producer of "The Tops" at the time this album was released. TOPS would release one more album, "SOUL CHILDREN", the following year, before they disbanded in 1991.
Track listing
LP(28MX-2555) Track listing
| Side A | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Music | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "Do-Loo-Doo?" | Issei Noro | 4:04 | |||||||
| 2. | "Bayside Express" | Issei Noro | 4:46 | |||||||
| 3. | "Taiyo-Fu" (The Wind From The Sun) | Issei Noro | 4:26 | |||||||
| 4. | "Red Zone" | Tetsuo Sakurai | 4:19 | |||||||
| 5. | "Princess Moon" | Issei Noro | 4:54 | |||||||
| Side B | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Music | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "Inishie" (Old Times) | Minoru Mukaiya | 3:39 | |||||||
| 2. | "Solid Swing" | Akira Jimbo | 1:57 | |||||||
| 3. | "Magnetic Vibration" | Tetsuo Sakurai | 4:48 | |||||||
| 4. | "Mei-Mu" (Shallow Dreams) | Issei Noro | 4:11 | |||||||
| 5. | "Super Sonic Movement" | Issei Noro | 6:37 | |||||||
CD(UPCY-6540) Track listing
| No. | Title | Music | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Do-Loo-Doo?" | Issei Noro | 4:04 | |
| 2. | "Bayside Express" | Issei Noro | 4:46 | |
| 3. | "Taiyo-Fu" (The Wind From The Sun) | Issei Noro | 4:26 | |
| 4. | "Red Zone" | Tetsuo Sakurai | 4:19 | |
| 5. | "Princess Moon" | Issei Noro | 4:54 | |
| 6. | "Inishie" (Old Times) | Minoru Mukaiya | 3:39 | |
| 7. | "Solid Swing" | Akira Jimbo | 1:57 | |
| 8. | "Magnetic Vibration" | Tetsuo Sakurai | 4:48 | |
| 9. | "Mei-Mu" (Shallow Dreams) | Issei Noro | 4:11 | |
| 10. | "Super Sonic Movement" | Issei Noro | 6:37 | |
| 11. | "Access" (Bonus Track for CD) | Issei Noro | 4:21 | |
| 12. | "Halle" (Bonus Track for 1992 CD) | Issei Noro | 3:44 | |
| 13. | "Asayake" (Bonus Track for 1992 CD) | Issei Noro | 5:37 |
Personnel
CASIOPEA are
- Issei Noro - Electric guitar, Acoustic Guitar
- Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards
- Tetsuo Sakurai - 6 Strings Electric Bass
- Akira Jimbo - Drums
Guest Musicians:
- Horn Arrangement - Ichiro Nitta (LP:A1, B5)(CD:1,10,11,12,13)
Horn SPECTRUM are
TOPS Horns are
- Shigeru Terauchi: Trumpet
- Junichi Kawasaki: Trumpet
- Takashi Kudo: Trombone
- Masahiro Kuroishi: Tenor Saxophone
Production
- Executive Producer - Katsuki Hagiwara, Shinichi Toyama
Recorded on
- July 9th (Projeto Sp. São Paulo, Brazil)[LP:A3, A4][CD:3,4],
- August 23rd (World Expo '88 Brisbane, Australia)[LP:A5][CD:5],
- August 27th (Yomiuriland Open Theater East, Tokyo, Japan)[LP:A1,A2,B5][CD:1,2,10,11,12,13],
- September 10th (Auditorio National, Mexico City, Mexico)[LP:B1,B2][CD:6,7],
- September 13th (Roxy, Los Angeles, U.S.A.)[LP:B3,B4][CD:8,9]
- Recording Engineers - Roberto Marques (Brazil), Steve Pyle (Australia), Bob Hodas (U.S.A.), Tsutomu Ueda (Mexico), and Akitsugu Doi (Tokyo)
- Mixing Engineers - Akitsugu Doi, Tutomu Ueda
- Assistant Engineer - Masashi Kudo
- Tour Supervisor - Shinichi Toyama
- Top Producer - Noboru Miura
- Project Co-Ordinator - Masato Arai
- Tour Management - Fumiaki Takahashi
- Tour Crew - Ichiro Gohara, Tsutomu Ueda, Katsuhiro Maruichi, Kazumasa Mitsui, Hideji Uekusa, Hisashi Aratake.
- Art Director - Yoshiyuki Menjoh
- Designer - Yuji Sugita
- Photograph - Nakao Wada, Kazumi Okuma, Eiryo Asada
- Hair & Make - Kaoru Chiba
Release history
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog | note |
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| Japan | November 25, 1988[1] | Polydor K.K. / AURA | stereo LP | 28MX-2555 | 30 cm |
| Japan | November 25, 1988[1] | Polydor K.K. / AURA | CD | H33P-20285 | |
| Japan | July 1, 1992[1] | Polydor K.K. / AURA | CD | POCH-1223 | |
| Japan | June 24, 2009[1] | Universal Music LLC / AURA | remastered CD | UPCY-6540 | SHM-CD |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Yahoo!Music Casiopea WORLD LIVE '88". Yahoo!Music. Yahoo Japan Corporation. Retrieved 2009-08-01.