Photographs (Casiopea album)

Photographs
Studio album by
Casiopea
ReleasedApril 23, 1983
Recordedfrom January 24 to March 8, 1983
StudioStudio "A", Shibaura, Tokyo Japan
GenreJazz fusion
Length40:38
LabelAlfa Records
ALR-28049
ProducerIssei Noro, Shunsuke Miyazumi
Casiopea chronology
4x4
(1982) 		Photographs
(1983) 		Jive Jive
(1983)

Photographs is the ninth album and the seventh studio album by Casiopea, recorded and released in 1983.

Description

Prior to recording, each member went on a trip to various parts of the world to gain inspiration (Noro = India, Mukaiya = Europe, etc.) These trips gave the album a new style, while also keeping with the established sound from Cross Point. This album marks Casiopea's first use of the E-mu Emulator sampling keyboard.

"Looking Up" and "Misty Lady" were very popular among fans, and became staple tracks in live shows.

Concert

On the same day this album was released, Casiopea performed a concert for the "Hot Sounds Island" Music Festival at the Nippon Budokan concert hall, performing "Looking Up" for the first time. The last song Casiopea played was a cover of Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely", off of Songs In The Key of Life. This concert was filmed for television, and three songs from this concert, "Looking Up", "Space Road", and "Eyes of The Mind" were released on the "Casiopea, Again" DVD in 2000.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Looking Up"Issei Noro4:25
2."Dazzling"Noro4:16
3."Long Term Memory"Noro4:15
4."Strasse"Minoru Mukaiya3:40
5."Out Drive"Sadao Watanabe3:38
Total length:20:14
Side two
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Misty Lady"Noro3:45
2."Love You Day By Day"Tetsuo Sakurai4:02
3."Spice Road"Noro4:33
4."Fruit Salad Sunday"Akira Jimbo3:59
5."From Over The Sky"Noro4:05
Total length:20:24

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Electric guitar (Yamaha SG-2000, SG-1000 Fretless), Electric acoustic guitar, Sitar, Amdeck Percussion Synthesizer, Prophet-10, Linn LM-1, Vocal (A2, B2)
Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards (Yamaha GS-1, DX-9, CS-70M, CP-35, Moog the SOURCE, Roland VP-330, Prophet-10, Oberheim OB-Xa, Emulator, Linn LM-1)
Tetsuo Sakurai - Electric Bass (Yamaha BB-2000 Milk Bass, Kramer DMZ-6000B), Vocal (B2)
Akira Jimbo - Drums (Yamaha YD-9000 RG), Percussion, Amdeck Percussion Synthesizer, Linn LM-1

Production

  • Producer - Shunsuke Miyazumi, Issei Noro
  • Recording Engineer - Norio Yoshizawa
  • Assistant Engineer - Shinji Miyoshi
  • Re-mixed - Norio Yoshizawa, Issei Noro
  • Mastering - Mituharu Kobayashi
  • Art Direction - Kaoru Watanabe
  • Cover design - Kaoru Watanabe, Hiroyasu Yoshioka, Katsunori Hironaka
  • Photographer - Kohei Onishi
  • Stylist - Makiko Nakamura
  • Hair and Make Up - Mitzi(JET)
  • Remastering engineer - Kouji Suzuki (2016)

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog Note
Japan April 23, 1983 Alfa Records stereo 30cmLP ALR-28049 STEREO
November 28, 1983 12cmCD 38XA-3
January 25, 1987 32XA-111
March 21, 1992 ALCA-279
July 27, 1994 ALCA-9009
August 29, 1998 ALCA-9204
January 23, 2002 Village Records remastered 12cmCD VRCL-2209 DSD, LP paper jacket
February 14, 2002 VRCL-2229 DSD
May 27, 2009 Sony Music Direct MHCL-20011 DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket
February 3, 2016 Music download 1076213357 iTunes Store[1]
4582290414027 mora AAC-LC 320 kbps[2]
A1003862520 Recochoku AAC 320 kbps[3]
B01B5ATTUA Amazon.com[4]
B4srhtcoeeoavgecyxieqnmyudy Google Play Music[5]
July 27, 2016 4582290418865 mora DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[6]
smj4582290418865/ e-onkyo DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[7]
11185 HD-music DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[8]
4582290418858 mora FLAC 96.0 kHz/24bit[9]
A2000673649 Recochoku FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[10]
smj4582290418858 e-onkyo FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[11]
11174 HD-music FLAC 96 kHz/24bit[12]
bc1490781cf74f4ce886 AWA 320kbps[13]
November 10, 2016 1MxF83wb0VOoCCPRVKOeVy Spotify[14]

See also

References

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