''Super Flight'' is the second studio album by Japanese jazz fusion 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 Muka ...

, released via Alfa Records on November 25, 1979. Recording took place at Studio A in

Shibaura is a district of Minato ward located in Tokyo, Japan. The district is located between the eastern side of the Yamanote Line train and Tokyo Bay. Shibaura consists mostly of artificial islands created by the excavation of industrial canals in ...

, Tokyo from August to October of that year. The album cover arts depicts a blimp with "Casiopea" written on the side flying during a sunset near

Lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan (also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York) is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough for business, culture, and government in New York City, which is the most populated city in the United States with ...

, New York.

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Recorded and mixed at Studio "A", Shibaura, Tokyo, August 27 – October 13, 1979 ;Musicians *

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, fretless guitar, arrangements *

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, ...

– keyboard, organ, pedal bass, synthesizers,

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 ...

on "I Love New York", "Flying" and "Magic Ray", string arrangement on "Take Me" * Tetsuo Sakurai – bass guitar, fretless bass *Takashi Sasaki –

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

*Kanya Kazama – backup drums *Penny (Toshitaro & Riverside) – percussion *Debrah Correll – vocals (B3) * Jun Fukamachi – conductor, horn arrangement on "Mighty Mouse" *Koji Hatori –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standar ...

*Toshio Araki – trumpet *Eiji Arai –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrat ...

*Jake H. Conception – alto saxophone *Takeru Maruaoka –

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

*Shunzo Sunahara – baritone saxophone *Tomato Strings – strings ;Production and design *Kunihiko Murai – executive producer *Syoro Kawazoe – executive producer *Shunsuke Miyazumi – producer *Shinji Sawada – producer *Norio Yoshizawa – recording, mixing engineer *Yasuhiko Terada – assistant engineer *Alphabet – art direction, design *Toshikuni Okubo – illustrator *Jun Takemura – liner notes *Kouji Suzuki – remastering engineer (2016)

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