15/04/2026

Casiopea "Casiopea" (1980) -Jazz Fusion-



Label : Alfa Records, Inc.


Japon Side 1

01 - Time Limit (Issei Noro)
02 - Tears Of The Star (Issei Noro)
03 - Space Road (Issei Noro)
04 - Midnight Rendezvous (Issei Noro)

Side 2

01 - Far Away (Issei Noro)
02 - Swallow (Issei Noro)
03 - Dream Hill (Issei Noro)
04 - Black Joke (Issei Noro)


Casiopea :
Issei Noro : Electric & Acoustic Guitar, Vocal
Mindru Mukaiya : Electric & Acoustic Piano, Synthesizers, Yamaha EX-1, Vibe
Tetsuo Sakurai : Electric Bass
Takashi Sasaki : Drums

Horns :
Randy Brecker : Trumpet
Michael Brecker : Tenor Sax
David Sanborn : Alto Sax

Strings : 'Tomato' Strings

All Tunes Written & Arranged by Issei Noro except Horns Arranged by Jan Fukamachi & Strings Arranged by Hiroki Inui
Recorded at Studio 'A', Shibaura, Tokyo from December 1978 to March 1979
Recording Engineers for Basic Tracks : Al Schmitt, Norio Yoshizawa, Yasuhiko Terada
Assistant Engineer : Mitsuo Koike
Horns Recorded at Power Station Studio, N.Y. on February 10, 1979, Directed by Jun Fukamachi
Recording Engineer : Neil Dorfsman
Assistant Engineer : James Farber
Mixed at Studio 'A', Shibaura, Tokyo, March 1979
Mixing Engineer : Yasuhiko Terada