Dramatic (album)

DRAMATIC is the 24th album by the jazz fusion group Casiopea recorded and released in 1993. It is also an album which marks the introduction of a new Casiopea Member, Noriaki Kumagai, who replaced Masaaki Hiyama on drums due to his Medical problems caused by smoking, and, this also marks Casiopea's Return to Alfa Records. This album has a song, "Shocking Function", which includes Former T-Square Member, Kiyohiko Senba, on percussion.

Track listing

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Scene 1: Glory"	Issei Noro	4:05
2.	"Scene 2: Fly to the Sun"	Issei Noro	4:29
3.	"Scene 3: The Tornado"	Issei Noro	4:01
4.	"Scene 4: Shadow of Midnight"	Issei Noro	4:32
5.	"Scene 5: Life Goes On"	Yoshihiro Naruse, Issei Noro	4:38
6.	"Scene 6: Voice From Others"	Issei Noro	4:39
7.	"Scene 7: Cubic Music"	Minoru Mukaiya	3:41
8.	"Scene 8: Ancient Roman"	Minoru Mukaiya	4:28
9.	"Scene 9: Shocking Function"	Noriaki Kumagai	4:01
10.	"Scene 10: Michi"	Issei Noro	3:36
11.	"Scene 11: Oriental Spirits"	Minoru Mukaiya	4:35
12.	"Scene 12: Key of Miracle"	Issei Noro	4:14

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Guitars

Minoru Mukaiya - keyboards

Yoshihiro Naruse - Bass

Noriaki Kumagai - drums

Kiyohiko Senba - Percussion

Production

Executive Producer: Yoshiaki Mizutani, Yoshihiro Akiya
Producer - Kyoji Kato
Director - Hideyuki Akiyama
Associate Producer - Satoshi Nakao
Executive Producer - Shoro Kawazoe

Recording & Mixing Engineer - Koji Sugimori
Assistant Engineer - Kazuyoshi Hirayama
Additional Recording Engineer - Tomoyuki Sumi

Guitar & Keyboards Technician - Yasushi "SLOT" Horiuchi
Basses & Drums Technician - Shigeo Matsuyama
Basses Build Up Technician - Yoshiki Murayama

Art Direction & Design - Satoshi Yanagisawa
Assist - Katsumichi Nagai
Photograph - Yukinori Tokoro
Inner Photo - Takashi Kitamura, Yoshihiro Naruse (SCENE 5)
Stylist - Mikio Mochizuki
Hair & Make - Eisuke Shibusawa

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	May 21, 1993^[2]	Alfa Records	CD	ALCA-487
Japan	June 29, 1994^[2]	Alfa Records	CD	ALCA-9016
Japan	February 20, 2002^[2]	Village Records	remastered CD	VRCL-2216	DSD, LP paper jacket
Japan	March 13, 2002^[2]	Village Records	remastered CD	VRCL-2236	DSD
Japan	May 27, 2009^[2]	Sony Music Direct	remastered CD	MHCL-20018	DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket

References

↑ Allmusic review
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Yahoo!Music Casiopea DRAMATIC". Yahoo!Music. Yahoo Japan Corporation. Retrieved 2009-07-12.

External links

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