''Rockoon'' is the fourth studio album by Japanese
Jazz fusion band
T-Square (then known as The Square). It was released on April 1, 1980.
Takeshi Itoh (saxophone player) had begun to use the Lyricon (a Woodwind Synthesizer) in their albums from 1980 until 1987. He switched to Yamaha WX11 and finally to AKAI EWIs in 1988 and has since been using EWIs as a secondary wind instrument.
Track listing
Personnel
*Masahiro Andoh –
guitar
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*Takeshi Itoh –
alto saxophone,
flute,
Lyricon
The Lyricon is an electronic wind instrument, the first wind controller to be constructed.
Invented by Bill Bernardi (and co-engineered by Roger Noble and with the late Lyricon performer Chuck GreenbergIngham (1998) p.184), filed for patent o ...
and
vocoder
A vocoder (, a portmanteau of ''voice'' and ''encoder'') is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation.
The vocoder was ...
*Daisaku Kume –
keyboard
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Text input
* Keyboard, part of a typewriter
* Computer keyboard
** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping
** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware
Music
* Musi ...
s and
synthesizer arrangements
*Yuhji Nakamura –
bass guitar
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and
Moog bass
The Moog Taurus is a foot-operated analog synthesizer designed and manufactured by Moog Music, originally conceived as a part of the Constellation series of synthesizers. The initial Taurus I was manufactured from 1975 to 1981; a less popular re ...
*Jun Aoyama –
drums
*Kiyohiko Semba –
percussion
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and
vocals
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*Masato Kohara – vocals on "Really Love", "Come Back", and "It's Happening Again"
References
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T-Square (band) albums
1980 albums