Answers (album)

Answers
Studio album by Casiopea
Released	May 25, 1994
Recorded	1994
Studio	Audio Resource Honolulu, Honolulu
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	54:13
Label	Alfa Records ALCA-1001
Producer	Casiopea
Casiopea chronology
Dramatic (1993) Answers (1994) Hearty Notes (1994)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Answers is the twenty-fifth album and the eighteenth studio album by jazz fusion group Casiopea released in 1994.

Track listing

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Set Sail"	Issei Noro	4:24
2.	"Fortunate Breeze"	Issei Noro	5:24
3.	"Take Courage"	Issei Noro	4:29
4.	"Living Things"	Issei Noro	4:29
5.	"Previous Matters"	Minoru Mukaiya	3:53
6.	"Warning"	Issei Noro	3:53
7.	"Dynamic Road"	Minoru Mukaiya	3:57
8.	"Surf's Up"	Noriaki Kumagai	4:41
9.	"PAL"	Issei Noro	4:10
10.	"Cool Rain"	Yoshihiro Naruse, Issei Noro	5:44
11.	"Mr. Dungeon"	Minoru Mukaiya	4:34
12.	"A Fine Day"	Issei Noro	4:35
Total length:			54:13

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Guitars

Minoru Mukaiya - keyboards

Yoshihiro Naruse - Bass

Noriaki Kumagai - drums

Guest

• Michael R. Muldoon - Percussion

Production

• Sound Produced — CASIOPEA
• Executive Producer — Yoshiaki Mizutani

• Recording & Mixing Engineer — Ross Cockle
• Assistant Engineer — Porter Miller
• Mastering Engineer — Tohru Kotetsu

• Instruments Technician — Yasushi Horiuchi, Eisuke Sasaki
• Basses Build Up Technician — Yoshiki Murayama

• Art Direction & Design — Shigekazu Tsujimori
• CG Art & Design — Keiko Akiyama
• Photograph — Junichi Takahashi, PHOTONICA, MON-TRÉSOR

• Remastering engineer — Kouji Suzuki (2016)

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	May 25, 1994	Alfa Records	12cmCD	ALCA-1001	stereo
	February 20, 2002	Village Records	remastered CD	VRCL-2217	DSD, LP paper jacket
	March 13, 2002			VRCL-2237	DSD
	May 27, 2009	Sony Music Direct		MHCL-20019	DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket
	February 3, 2016		Music download	1076273331	iTunes Store [2]
				4582290414102	mora AAC-LC 320 kbit/s [3]
				A1003862569	Recochoku AAC 320 kbit/s [4]
				B01B5AVGF6	Amazon.com [5]
				Bhtbk3dp4bqdpp2we2asrecvjre	Google Play Music [6]
	July 27, 2016			4582290418827	mora DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit [7]
				smj4582290418827	e-onkyo DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit [8]
				11196	HD-music DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit [9]
				4582290418810	mora FLAC 96.0 kHz/24bit [10]
				A2000673654	Recochoku FLAC 96 kHz 24bit [11]
				smj4582290418810	e-onkyo FLAC 96 kHz 24bit [12]
				11205	HD-music FLAC 96 kHz/24bit [13]
				ff4a51d5c8760c9ec994	AWA 320kbit/s [14]
	November 10, 2016			5L1OynavlRLJNmU4zDX5Qz	Spotify [15]

External links

• Audio Resource Honolulu Home Page
• CASIOPEA – Answers at Discogs
• Answers at MusicBrainz

References

1. Allmusic review
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