Photographs (Casiopea album)

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Photographs
CasiopeaPhotographsalbumcover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 23, 1983
Recordedfrom January 24 to March 8, 1983
StudioStudio "A", Shibaura, Tokyo Flag of Japan.svg
Genre Jazz fusion
Length40:38
Label Alfa Records
ALR-28049
Producer Issei 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.

Contents

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 Noro 4:25
2."Dazzling"Noro4:16
3."Long Term Memory"Noro4:15
4."Strasse" Minoru Mukaiya 3:40
5."Out Drive" Sadao Watanabe 3:38
Total length:20:14
Side two
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Misty Lady"Noro3:45
2."Love You Day By Day" Tetsuo Sakurai 4:02
3."Spice Road"Noro4:33
4."Fruit Salad Sunday" Akira Jimbo 3:59
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

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalogNote
Japan April 23, 1983 Alfa Records stereo 30cmLP ALR-28049STEREO
November 28, 1983 12cmCD 38XA-3
January 25, 198732XA-111
March 21, 1992ALCA-279
July 27, 1994ALCA-9009
August 29, 1998ALCA-9204
January 23, 2002 Village Records remastered 12cmCD VRCL-2209 DSD, LP paper jacket
February 14, 2002VRCL-2229 DSD
May 27, 2009 Sony Music Direct MHCL-20011DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket
February 3, 2016 Music download 1076213357 iTunes Store [1]
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