Casiopea (album)

Casiopea is the debut album of the jazz fusion group Casiopea which was recorded between 1978-1979 and released later that year. The album showed two racecars racing each other on a raceway.

Casiopea
Studio album by
Casiopea
ReleasedMay 25, 1979
RecordedStudio "A", Shibaura, Tokyo from December 1978 to March 1979.
Power Station Studio, N.Y. on February 10, 1979
GenreJazz fusion
Length36:28
LabelAlfa Records
ALR-6017
Producer
  • Kunihiko Murai
  • Syoro Kawazoe
Casiopea chronology
Casiopea
(1979)		 Super Flight
(1979)

Recorded between December 1978 and March 1979 in Japan, "Casiopea" is Casiopea's self-titled debut album. The album includes the participation of some notable contemporary jazz players such as David Sanborn on the saxophone, giving a special touch to Issei Noro's compositions. Tunes like Black Joke are part of the multiple performances and variances along Casiopea's career.

This album was recorded on LP in 1979 as ALR-6017 and years later in 1986 on CD under the 32XA-104 catalog numbers, being the first editions on both LP and CD.

The cars featured on the album cover are based on Can Am cars running in the japanese Fuji Grand Champion series at the end of the seventies, most likely a Lola T290 Mazda[1] and a March 74s[2] from the 1978[3] & 1979[4] championships.

Track listing

All tracks were written and arranged by Issei Noro except horn arranged by Jun Fukamachi and strings arranged by Hiroki Inui.

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Time Limit"3:07
2."Tears of the Star"4:32
3."Space Road"5:14
4."Midnight Rendezvous"5:20
Total length:18:13
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Far Away"3:55
2."Swallow"4:24
3."Dream Hill"5:39
4."Black Joke"4:17
Total length:18:15

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Electric guitar (Yamaha SG2000), Acoustic guitar, vocals
Minoru Mukaiya - Fender Rhodes electric piano, Acoustic piano, synthesizers, Yamaha electone, vibraphone
Tetsuo Sakurai - Bass guitar (Fender Jazz Bass)
Takashi Sasaki - Drums

HORNS

STRINGS

  • "Tomato" strings

Production
  • Executive Producer - Kunihiko Murai, Syoro Kawazoe
  • Producer - Shinji Sawada, Kazusuke Obi
  • Recording engineer - Al Schmitt, Norio Yoshizawa, Yasuhiko Terada
  • Assistant engineer - Mitsuo Koike
  • Recording engineer - Neil Dorfsman
  • Assistant engineer - James Farber
  • Mixing engineer - Yasuhiko Terada
  • Remastering engineer - Kouji Suzuki (2016)

Release history
Region Date Label Format Catalog note
Japan May 25, 1979 Alfa Records 30cmLP ALR-6017 stereo
December 21, 1986 12cmCD 32XA-104
March 21, 1992 ALCA-271
June 29, 1994 ALCA-9001
July 23, 1998 ALCA-9196
May 31, 2000 Toshiba EMI remastered 12cmCD TOCT-24364 LP paper jacket
December 19, 2001 Village Records VRCL-2201 DSD, LP paper jacket
January 17, 2002 VRCL-2221 DSD
May 27, 2009 Sony Music Direct MHCL-20003 DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket
February 3, 2016 Music download 1076209054 iTunes Store[5]
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References
  1. http://www.racecarwarehouse.co.uk/details/14
  2. http://f1-web-gallery.sakura.ne.jp/cn21/pg154.html
  3. http://www.classicscars.com/wspr/results/gc/gc1978.html
  4. http://www.classicscars.com/wspr/results/gc/gc1979.html
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