Hearty Notes

Hearty Notes is the twenty-sixth album and the first one in which All 4 Members of Casiopea play Acoustic Instruments recorded and released in 1994. 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".

Track listing

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Sweet Vision"	Issei Noro	4:43
2.	"Dazzling" (from album "Photographs")	Issei Noro	4:22
3.	"Justice"	Issei Noro	4:12
4.	"Pleasure"	Issei Noro	3:35
5.	"Believe Again"	Noriaki Kumagai	3:52
6.	"Distance To Paradise"	Minoru Mukaiya	4:29
7.	"Sombrero"	Minoru Mukaiya	3:51
8.	"So Long"	Yoshihiro Naruse	5:38
9.	"Magic Ray" (from album "Super Flight")	Issei Noro	4:19
10.	"Shining Voyage"	Issei Noro	3:47

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

↑ Allmusic review
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Yahoo!Music Casiopea HEARTY NOTES". Yahoo!Music. Yahoo Japan Corporation. Retrieved 2009-07-19.