16/01/2025

Casiopea "Sun Sun" (2000) -Smooth Jazz / Jazz Fusion / Pop Rock-



Label : Alfa Music Inc.


Japon 01 - Conjunction (Issei Noro)
02 - Coast To Coast (Issei Noro)
03 - Keepers (Issei Noro)
04 - Lunar Shade (Issei Noro)
05 - Sun (Issei Noro & Carlos Alomar)
06 - After Glow (Akira Jimbo)
07 - Mr. Unique (Issei Noro)
08 - Samba Maria (Minoru Mukaiya)
09 - Departure (Akira Jimbo)
10 - Someone's Love (Issei Noro & Carlos Alomar)
11 - Mi Señora (Tetsuo Sakurai)
12 - Somethings Wrong (Change It) (Akira Jimbo & Carlos Alomar)
13 - Transformation 1 (Minoru Mukaiya)
14 - Planetoid ~ Mother Earth (Issei Noro & Carlos Alomar)


Casiopea :
Issei Noro : Electric Guitar
Minoru Mukaiya : Keyboards
Tetsuo Sakurai : Electric Bass
Akira Jimbo : Drums

Additional Musicians :
Lead vocal on "Somethings Wrong (Change It)" : John Waite
Lead vocal on "Sun" : Frank Simms
Background vocals on "Someone's Love" & "Conjunction" : Diva Grey, Vivian Cherry & Leatrice Griffin
Background vocals on "Sun" & "Somethings Wrong (Change It)" : Casiopea
Horns by Borneo Horns
Alto Sax : Stan Harrison
Tenor Sax : Lenny Pickett
Tenor & Baritone Sax : Steve Elson
Also
Trumpet : Earl Gardner
Horn Arrangements by Lenny Pickett
Latin Percussion : Pablo Rosario
Brazilian Percussion on "Samba Maria" : Guilmerue Franco & Marcio Sapel

Produced by Carlos Alomar
Co-Produced by Issei Noro (Casiopea)
Engineer : Andy Heermans (Mia Productions)
Assistant Engineers : Victor Deyglio (The Hit Factory)
Lance Mcvickar, Tim Reppert (Soundtrack)
Sound Adviser : Shun Miyazumi
A&R Co-ordinators : Masato Ari (A.D.O.) & Toshikazu Awano (Alfa)
Recorded at The Hit Factory, New York from June 8th to June 29th, 1986
Re-Mixed at Soundtrack, New York from July 1st to July 6th, 1986
Mastering : Howie Weinberg at Master Disk, New York