Be (Casiopea album)

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Be
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 18, 1998
Recordedat Studio Jive, Tokyo Flag of Japan.svg 1998
Genre Jazz fusion
Length59:03
Label Pony Canyon
PCCR-00285
Producer Casiopea
Casiopea chronology
Light and Shadows
(1997)
Be
(1998)
Material
(1999)
Professional ratings
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Be is the thirty-first album by the jazz fusion group Casiopea recorded and released in 1998.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleMusicLength
1."Dream Maker" Issei Noro 5:45
2."The Purple Bird" Issei Noro 4:51
3."Hole Heartedly" Issei Noro 4:35
4."Treasure" Issei Noro 5:16
5."Yours Lovingly" Yoshihiro Naruse 4:19
6."All the Time" Issei Noro 5:59
7."Third Possibility" Issei Noro 4:45
8."Final Matter" Minoru Mukaiya 3:39
9."Night Breeze" Akira Jimbo 5:13
10."The Day of Selection" Issei Noro 4:13
11."Let It Rain" Minoru Mukaiya 5:22
12."Inner Child" Issei Noro 6:08
Total length:59:03

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Guitars
Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards
Yoshihiro Naruse - Bass

Supported

Akira Jimbo - Drums

Additional Musicians

Gen Ohgimi - Percussion (#3,4,7,10,12)
Rie Akagi - Flute (#5)
R.P.M.(David K. Lawson, Wanda D. P. Lawson, Elaine Entzminger, Kenneth F. Stewart) - Chorus (#12)

Production

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalogNote
Japan September 18, 1998 Pony Canyon 12cmCD PCCR-00285
November 20, 2008 remastered 12cmCD PCCR-50013 DSD, HQCD
Japan
Australia
Canada
U.S.A.
U.K.
August 10, 2010 Digital distribution 389197344 iTunes Store [2]

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References

  1. Allmusic Review
  2. "Casiopea Be". Apple Inc. Retrieved 2014-09-26.