Cross Point (album)

Cross Point is the sixth album by Casiopea recorded and released in 1981.

Cross Point
Studio album by
Casiopea
ReleasedOctober 21, 1981
Recordedfrom July 4 to September 10, 1981
StudioStudio "A", Shibaura, Tokyo
GenreJazz fusion
Length39:32
LabelAlfa Records
ALR-28029
ProducerShunsuke Miyazumi, Harvey Mason
Casiopea chronology
Eyes of the Mind
(1981)		 Cross Point
(1981)		 Mint Jams
(1982)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Track listing
Side A
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Smile Again"Issei Noro3:59
2."Swear"Issei Noro5:22
3."A Sparkling Day"Issei Noro3:36
4."Span of a Dream"Issei Noro4:52
5."Domino Line"Issei Noro3:23
Total length:21:12
Side B
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Galactic Funk"Issei Noro4:22
2."Sunnyside Feelin'"Akira Jimbo4:12
3."Any Moment (We'll Be One)"Harvey Mason5:09
4."Endless Vision"Minoru Mukaiya4:37
Total length:18:20

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Electric guitar (YAMAHA SG-2000 & SG-1000 Fretless, KORG Guitar Synthesizer, Lynn Drum Computer), Arrangement
Minoru Mukaiya - keyboards (Fender Rhodes, YAMAHA CP-80, GS-1, CS-30, KORG 800DV, Trident, Mini Moog, Prophet 10, Roland Jupiter-8, Acoustic Piano)
Tetsuo Sakurai - Bass (YAMAHA BB-2000)
Akira Jimbo - drums (YAMAHA YD-9000R), Percussion
  • Eiji Urata - Synthesizer programming

Production
  • Producer - Shunsuke Miyazumi
  • Co-Producer - Harvey Mason
  • Associate producer - Satoshi Nakao
  • Executive producer - Shoro Kawazoe
  • Engineers - Norio Yoshizawa
  • Assistant Engineers - Atsushi Saito
  • Art Direction - Tsuguya Inoue
  • Designer - Tsuguya Inoue
  • Illustrator - Thomas Bayrle / UNAC TOKYO ⓒ1981
  • Coordination - Toshinao Tsukui
  • Remastering engineer - Kouji Suzuki (2016)

Release history
Region Date Label Format Catalog Note
Japan October 21, 1981 Alfa Records stereo 30cmLP ALR-28029 stereo
November 25, 1984 12cmCD 38XA-24
January 25, 1987 32XA-118
March 21, 1992 ALCA-276
July 27, 1994 ALCA-9006
July 23, 1998 ALCA-9201
December 19, 2001 Village Records remastered 12cmCD VRCL-2206 DSD, LP paper jacket
January 17, 2002 VRCL-2226 DSD
May 27, 2009 Sony Music Direct MHCL-20008 DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket
February 3, 2016 Music download 1076210088 iTunes Store[2]
4582290413990 mora AAC-LC 320kbps[3]
A1003862405 Recochoku AAC 128/320kbps[4]
B01B5ARSU8 Amazon.com[5]
Bujop27brq4j4v5hxp7vxektghq Google Play Music [6]
July 27, 2016 4542696007612 mora DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[7]
smj4542696007612 e-onkyo DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[8]
11179 HD-music DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[9]
4582290418933 mora FLAC 96.0 kHz/24bit[10]
A1004668216 Recochoku FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[11]
smj4582290418933 e-onkyo FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[12]
11177 HD-music FLAC 96 kHz/24bit[13]
d9a46ea5b513b56aa983 AWA 320kbps[14]
November 10, 2016 5ACZZnH09oCt2ZZwazQWlf Spotify[15]
gollark: Er, .org, as that's available.
gollark: Actually, octaplex.net is neat.
gollark: Well, I somewhat like it, but there are technical issues regarding it.
gollark: hedron and choron are the same length so meh.
gollark: * octachoron

References
  1. Allmusic review
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