''The Party AUDIO STACK'' (The Party) is the 20th album by Japanese

jazz fusion Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, ...

band

Casiopea , now known in its fourth iteration as Casiopea-P4, is a Japanese jazz fusion band formed in 1976 by guitarist Issei Noro, bassist Tetsuo Sakurai, drummer Tohru "Rika" Suzuki, and keyboardist Hidehiko Koike. In 1977, keyboardist Minoru Mukaiya ...

. In addition, the video was released simultaneously as ''The Party VISUAL STACK'' on June 25, 1990 with

LaserDisc The LaserDisc (LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as DiscoVision, MCA DiscoVision (also known simply as "DiscoVision") in the United States in 1978. Its diam ...

and VHS. Also, when we sent the application tickets attached to "AUDIO STACK" and "VISUAL STACK", we got ''The Party EXTRA STACK'' (VHS LPR-017) by lottery.
This album marked the joining of Yoshihiro Naruse (bass) and

Masaaki Hiyama is a Japanese jazz drummer who participated in some of Japan's more well known fusion bands. He was a former member of jazz-fusion band Casiopea. Biography In 1979, he joined a fusion group called Guitarist Creek. They participated in Cross-Wind ...

(drums) to the band. This is also Casiopea's 20th overall album.

Track listing of AUDIO STACK (CD PICL-1006)

Personnel

CASIOPEA are :

Issei Noro is a Japanese jazz fusion guitarist who is one of the founding members and the main composer of the band Casiopea. He has released 6 solo albums and a compilation. He also works as an instructor of a guitar clinic, and as a producer. In 1983, ...

Electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

Acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

Minoru Mukaiya is a Japanese musician best known as the former keyboardist of the jazz fusion band Casiopea and producer of the Train Simulator series of Japanese video games. Mukaiya joined Casiopea during its formation in 1977 (with guitarist Issei Noro, dru ...

Keyboards Keyboard may refer to: 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 ...

Yoshihiro Naruse Yoshihiro is a Japanese masculine given name, and less commonly, a surname. There are dozens of different ways to write the name in kanji. Some examples of possible writings *義弘, "justice, vast" *義広, "justice, wide" *義寛, "justice, g ...

Electric Bass The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck The ...

Drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

Production

* Sound producer –

*Project Producer – Taketsune Kubo *Recording & mixing engineers – Koji Sugimori *Assistant engineers – Masashi Kudo, Yuji Kuraishi *

Synclavier The Synclavier is an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation manufactured by New England Digital Corporation of Norwich, Vermont. It was produced in various forms from the late 1970s into the early 1 ...

Operator – Kenji Takizawa *Mastering Engineers – Mitsuharu Kobayashi *Art director – Mitsuaki Takeda *Cover design – Mayumi Fujimori *Photograph – Toshtaka Niwa

Release history of AUDIO STACK

References

* 『BAND SCORE CASIOPEA THE PARTY』August 20, 1990 Rittor Music, Inc.

External links

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The Party VISUAL STACK

''The Party VISUAL STACK'' (The Party) is the video work by Japanese

band

on June 25, 1990 with

and VHS. At the same time, album ''The Party AUDIO STACK'' was also released. Also, when we sent the application tickets attached to "AUDIO STACK" and "VISUAL STACK", we got ''The Party EXTRA STACK'' (VHS LPR-017) by lottery.
This album marked the joining of Yoshihiro Naruse (bass) and

(drums) to the band.

Track listing of VISUAL STACK (DVD GNBL-1006)

(*) 15 is bonus truck of DVD GNBL-1006.

Track listing of EXTRA STACK (VHS LPR-017)

Personnel

CASIOPEA are :

DANCERS :Tomomi Imai :Yoshiko Uno :Kumiko Sawada :Yukari Nakamoto :Chieko Noguchi :Andy Blankenbuehler :Izumi Aochi :Shigeo Kathy :Nobuaki Hagino :Kazushi Yabe

Production

* Director – Hideki Tsushima (PIPCO) * Dance director – Rocky * Assistant director – Masatoshi Sato, Ryuji Sugiyama * Director of Photography - Joji Ide *

Cameraman A camera operator, or depending on the context cameraman or camerawoman, is a professional operator of a film camera or video camera as part of a film crew. The term "cameraman" does not imply that a male is performing the task. In filmmaking ...

- Shigeru Mikoshiba, Hiro Ito, Shinichi Chiba, Takashi Suga, Toshihiro Ota * Camera Assistant - Kazuya Yamagata, keiji Hashimoto, Yumiko Yamagata, Takuko Nishiyama, Akinori Shigeeda, Tatsuo Tanaka, Kenji Shibata, Toru Suzuki, Naoki Tokugawa *

Choreographer Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...

- Koji Otsuka, Kamori Kanaya * Choreograph Assistant - Naomi Shibata, Yumiko Tsukuda * Lighting director – Hiroyuki Matsumoto *

Lighting Designer In theatre, a lighting designer (or LD) works with the director, choreographer, set designer, costume designer, and sound designer to create the lighting, atmosphere, and time of day for the production in response to the text while keeping ...

- Mitsutaka Gotoh * Syncrolite Operator – Yoshikazu Yamada * Sub Operator – Taro Kondo * Syncrolite Engineer - Hideyuki Asada * Lighting Assistant - Akira Hasegawa, Masayuki Eto, Kimiko Asada, Masahiro Kobayashi, Takashi Ya,ashita, Hirokazu Uchida, Kanae Nonaka, Hiroshi Inumaki, Chie Okawa, Mina Ishigaki, Masakazu Sasaki * Production designer – Yoshitoshi Egashira * Art director – Tadahiko Komiyama * Special Effect - Toshiyuki Hatanaka * Assistant Engineer - Masashi Kudo, Yuji Kuraishi, Tetsuo Saito, Takeshi Higuchi, Takeshi Sasaki, Shanty Kobayashi, Hiroto Tsuruta, Shigeru Takagi, Kazumi Ichinose * P.A. Engineer - Tsutomu Ueda * Assistant Engineer - Jiro Arita *

Engineer - Kenji Takizawa, David Fromm, Steven Fromm, Ikuo Honma * Rail & Crane System - Tatsumi Kuramochi, Susumu Nanba, Yujiro Takeda, Tsutomu Abe, Shinji Arima, Norio Ninomiya, Mikio Sakai, Futoshi Yokobori, Seiji Takaku, Toshiya Tsurumi, Kenshiro Fujiwara, Takatori Mukai * Hair & Make up – Hisako Oguri * FV Engineer - Yoshiki Nishina * Editor - N・A・O * M.A. Mixer - Takumi Murayama * Sound Effect - Nori Miyata * Art designer – Mitsuaki Takeda * Cover Designer - Mayumi Fujimori * Assistant Producer - Tadashi Nomura * Chief Manager - Kazuaki Negishi * Manager - Takeshi Inoue * Technicians - Shigeo Matsuyama, Yasushi Horiuchi, Yoshitsugu Nozawa * Co-Producer - Shunsuke Goto (TAMCO) * Producer - Takatsune Kudo (PIONEER LDC)

Release history of VISUAL STACK

External links

LasorDisc Database Cassiopeia: The Party VISUAL STACK

References

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