''Casiopea World Live '88'' is the fifth live album released by the

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group

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in 1988. It consists of recordings of some of their songs played in concert during Casiopea's World Tour in 1988 that promoted their previous album, ''Euphony''. It is also a collaboration album with two Japanese horn sections from two other bands, the brass section of Spectrum and the brass section of The Tops. Additionally, it is the first album Spectrum recorded since their breakup in 1981, and is their penultimate album (their last album after they broke up was released in 1991 and was a remix compilation album of songs that were hits in Japan from the late 1970s). Lead trumpeter/vocalist of the band, Ichiro Nitta, was also the producer of The Tops at the time this album was released. The Tops released one more album, ''Soul Children'', the following year, before they disbanded in 1991. That same year, Spectrum released their ''Super Remix'' album. This was also the last album to feature

Tetsuo Sakurai is a Japanese bassist. To date, he has released a total of 37 albums as a member of Casiopea and Jimsaku and solo artist, and has also made 3 bass instructional videos. History Tetsuo Sakurai started playing bass when he was 13 years old. In 1 ...

on bass and

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on drums (during his run as a full-time member), who both left to form the band

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Track listing

LP(28MX-2555) Track listing

CD(POCH-1223, UPCY-6540) Track listing

12, 13 bonus truck are not included in H33P-20285.

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, ...

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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, d ...

- keyboards *

- 6 string electric bass *

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Guest Musicians

*Horn Arrangement - Ichiro Nitta (LP:A1, B5)(CD:1,10,11,12,13) Horn Spectrum are * Ichiro Nitta -

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* Junichi Kanezaki -

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Tops Horns are * Shigeru Terauchi - trumpet *

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- trumpet * Takashi Kudo - trombone * Masahiro Kuroishi -

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Production

* Producer -

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- Katsuki Hagiwara, Shinichi Toyama Recorded on :July 9th (Projeto Sp.

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, Brazil) P:A3, A4 D:3,4:August 23rd (

World Expo 88 World Expo 88, also known as Expo 88, was a specialised Expo held in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia, during a six-month period between Saturday, 30 April 1988 and Sunday, 30 October 1988, inclusive. The theme of the Expo w ...

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, Australia) P:A5 D:5:August 27th (Yomiuriland Open Theater East,

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, Japan) P:A1,A2,B5 D:1,2,10,11,12,13:September 10th (Auditorio National,

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, Mexico) D:6,7:September 13th (Roxy,

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, U.S.A.) P:B3,B4 D:8,9 *

Recording engineers An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproductio ...

- Roberto Marques (Brazil), Steve Pyle (Australia), Bob Hodas (U.S.A.), Tsutomu Ueda (Mexico), and Akitsugu Doi (Tokyo) *

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- Akitsugu Doi, Tutomu Ueda *Assistant engineer - Masashi Kudo *Tour supervisor - Shinichi Toyama *Top Producer - Noboru Miura *Project co-ordinator - Masato Arai *Tour management - Fumiaki Takahashi *Tour crew - Ichiro Gohara, Tsutomu Ueda, Katsuhiro Maruichi, Kazumasa Mitsui, Hideji Uekusa, Hisashi Aratake. *Art director - Yoshiyuki Menjoh *Designer - Yuji Sugita *Photograph - Nakao Wada, Kazumi Okuma, Eiryo Asada *Hair and makeup - Kaoru Chiba

Release history

External links

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LD/DVD

''JOIA - Casioea World Tour -'' is the live video released by the

group

in 1989. Later on, it was released on DVD with the name ''Live History Part II''.

Track listing

LD(SM068-3290) track listing

Personnel

Casiopea are *

Electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups ...

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, ...

- Keyboards *

- 6 Strings Electric Bass *

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Guest Musicians

*Horn arrangement - Ichiro Nitta (2-2〜4,2-6) Horn Spectrum are * Ichiro Nitta -

* Junichi Kanezaki -

Tops Horns are * Shigeru Terauchi - trumpet *

- trumpet * Takashi Kudo - trombone * Masahiro Kuroishi -

Production

* Director - Hideaki Oguri * Producer - Ryoichi Okuda (L.D.C.), Shunsuke Goth (TAMCO) * Technical supervisor - Makoto Kagawa, Kiyoshi Yaezawa * Video editor - Susumu "FRYO" Iguchi, Hideaki Oguri * Sound mixing engineer - Akitsugu Doi * Supervisor - Shinichi Toyama (Aura Music) * Tour producer - Noboru Miura (Soreisha) * Tour management - Fumiaki Takahashi * Assistant director - Kiyoji Yoshino, Atsushi Kimura * M.A. engineer - Takami Yuasa * Sound mixing assistant - Masashi Kudo * Production assistant manager - Hiroshi Mizutani * Runner - Kenichi Matsumoto * Assistant editor - Kohei Ishizaki * Edit co-ordinator - Kouichi Umeda * Stylist - Reiko Shishi * Designer - Mitsuaki Takeda (L.D.C.) * Tour co-ordinator - Masato Arai * Tour crew - Katsuhiro Maruichi, Ichiro Gohara, Tsutomu Ueda, Kazumasa Mitsui, Hideji Uekusa, Hisashi Aratake

Brazil staff

* Sup operações - M. Lucena * Dir tecnico - N. Cagiano * Sup tec - Carlos A. Fonseca * Co-dir - Simoes * Cameraman - Shigeru Mikoshiba, Carlinhos, Michell, Di Nizo, Marcelo, Leonard Yamaguchi * Video engineer - Kazuhiro Nagame, Pedro, Valdir, Luizinho, Baldini, Robson * AssistanttTecnico - J. Servulo * Camera assistant - Paulo, Hamilton * Aux mecs - Erco * Sound recording engineer - Roberto Marques, João Roberto Guarino * Sound assistant engineer - Jose Alberto Pimentel, Carlos Guedes, Dijalma Silva * Illumination - Walter, L. Fernando, Claudio, Arnaldo * Video mobil - TV Bandeirantes * Audio Equipments - Transamerica * Co-ordination - Nambei Tshushin Sha, Gisaburo Owa, Marina Satoh, Leonard Yamaguchi * Tour Co-ordination - Hallelujah World, Toshiharu Masanobu, Makio Terao

Australia staff

* Co-producer - Kei Robards * Co-director - Malcom Kemp. * Technical director - G. Nettle, B. Cassidy * Switcher - P. Lesson * Cameraman - Makoto Kogawa, Glen Watson, Steve Cahill, Brian Barnard, Bob McCall, Greg Clark * Video engineer - Barry Sutherland, G. Venn, C. Koeneman, J. Waiter, J. Galea, I. Andrews * VTR - Craig Metcalfe, D. Webb * Sound recording engineer - Steve Pyle, J. Boast * Sound recording assistant - G. Son * Assistant director - K. Wilson * Lighting - J. Bosak * Video and audio mobile - TVO (Network Ten), Video Ten * Co-ordination - West Street Productions, Tom Kanazaki, Jinni Hazard

Japan staff

* Technical director - Kiyoshi Yaezawa * Chief cameraman - Makoto Kogawa * Cameramen - Joji Ide, Shigeru Mikoshiba, Dave Kajimoto, Tsutomu Akahira, Shinichi Chiba, Jun Kosaka, Masato Ishikawa, Yoji Miyazaki, Teruo Ito, Akio Suzaki, Hiroshi Watanabe (Com-remote) * Video engineer - Masaru Konno, Akiyoshi Serino, Kazuhiro Nagame, Yoshitaka Kenkou, Hiroyuki Toida * VTR - Hisaki Fukuda, Takashi Suzuki * Switcher - Hirohito Ikemoto * Camera assistant - Fumito Kotani, Hiroshi Oyama, Junichi Yokoyama, Katsunori Ikemoto, Mitsunori Kishizoe * Rail and crane system - Hiroshi Iwasaki, Kozo Nashiki, Kazuya Nakamura, Yutaka Oshima, Shigeru Hirayama, Toshihiro Nakamura, Katsuo Ito, Shinji Kanzaki, Koji Kanaya * Sound recording engineer - Akitsugu Doi * Sound recording Assistants - Yoshiyasu Kumada, Makoto Takahashi, Tomoyasu Yamashita, Shoji Kusunoki * P.A. - Tsutomu Ueda, Kimio Kurokawa * Stage art pranner - Kazunori Higuchi * Lighting director - Ichiro Gohara * Lighting - Yukihisa Nishimura * Stage manager - Katsumi Ninagawa, Masayuki Yagi, Seiji Ohashi * Location lighting - Kouichi Seo, Tsugio Mizuno

Mexico staff

* Cameraman - Makoto Kagawa * Video engineer - Kazuhiro Nagame * Sound recording engineer - Tsutomu Ueda * Co-director - Oscar J. Vera Mendez * Video system - TV Imevision * Co-ordinator - Setsuo Morishima * Stage manager - Ryuichi Masamura

U.S.A. Staff

* Technical director - Mike Harrington * Technical co-ordinator - Steve North * Cameraman - Guy Casagrande, George Prince, Joe Dallura, Dave Kister, Doug Frobie, Makoto Kagawa * Gaffer - Marx Misenhiemer * Video engineer - Bill Schwartz, Terry Baysdofer, Jon Karhan, John Karhan * Camera assistant - Engine Fitzpatrick * Sound recording engineer - Bob Hodas, Video Mobil, Video One, Audio Mobile, Record Plant * Co-ordination - Muru Okuda (Filmore International) * Associates co-ordination - Alvin Mori, Ron Martinez (Lumination)

Release history

External links

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LaserDisc Database Casiopea: Joia - World Tour 1988 (1988) (SM068-3290)

References

{{Casiopea Casiopea live albums 1988 live albums Casiopea video albums 1988 video albums 1980s live video albums