Down Upbeat

Down Upbeat is the twelfth album and the ninth studio album by Casiopea, recorded and released in 1984. ^[1] This is Casiopea's second full album where Issei Noro is credited as a producer. The following year, "Zoom" was released as the lead single for this album, and is the only one of Casiopea's songs to have a professionally produced, full length music video, recorded in Manhattan.

Down Upbeat
Studio album by Casiopea
Released	October 25, 1984
Recorded	from July 24 to August 4, 1984
Studio	secret sound studio, New York City
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	38:30
Label	Alfa Records ALR-28063
Producer	Shunsuke Miyazumi, Issei Noro
Casiopea chronology
The Soundgraphy (1984) Down Upbeat (1984) Halle (1985)
Singles from Down Upbeat
"Zoom/Down Upbeat ALR-12002" Released: January 25, 1985

After the album was released, Casiopea went on their "1984 Around The World Tour." Notably, even though the tour was named after being international, the group only played a select few dates outside of Japan.

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Zoom"	Issei Noro	3:18
2.	"Down Upbeat"	Issei Noro	3:57
3.	"The Continental Way"	Issei Noro	4:48
4.	"Road Rhythm"	Minoru Mukaiya	3:04
5.	"Frou Frou"	Akira Jimbo	4:00
Total length:			19:07

Side B

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Home Stretch"	Issei Noro	3:50
2.	"Night Storm"	Akira Jimbo	4:13
3.	"Cookin' Up"	Minoru Mukaiya	3:37
4.	"Twilight Solitude"	Issei Noro	4:26
5.	"Air Fantasy"	Tetsuo Sakurai	3:17
Total length:			19:23

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Electric guitar (Yamaha SG-2000 Fretless)

Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards (Yamaha DX-1, DX-7, Roland VP-330)

Tetsuo Sakurai - Electric Bass (Yamaha BB-3000 5-strings, BB-2000)

Akira Jimbo - Drums (YAMAHA YD-9000RG, Simmons SDS-5, Zildjian Cymbals, Amdeck PCK-100)

• Digital drum percussion programming by Issei Noro and Minoru Mukaiya

Production

• Producer - Shunsuke Miyazumi, Issei Noro
• Engineer - Rik Pekkonen
• Assistant Engineer - Warren Bruleigh
• Mastering - Bernie Grundman
• Digital Technicians - John Butherford, David Satz
• Project Co-ordinators - Jay Durgain, Edward Leaman
• Designer - Kaoru Watanabe, Hiroyasu Yoshioka, Katsunori Hironaka
• Photographer - Yukio Ichikawa
• Remastering engineer - Kouji Suzuki (2016)

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	October 25, 1984	Alfa Records	30cmLP	ALR-28063	stereo
			12cmCD	38XA-25
Europe	1984	Sonet Records		SNTCD 926
Netherlands	1984		30cmLP	SNTF 926
UK	1984			SNTF 926
United States	1984	Milestone Records	30cmLP	M-9133	titled 'Zoom'
Japan	January 25, 1987	Alfa Records	12cmCD	32XA-119
	March 21, 1992			ALCA-282
	August 31, 1994			ALCA-9012
	August 29, 1998			ALCA-9207
	January 23, 2002	Village Records	remastered 12cmCD	VRCL-2212	DSD, LP paper jacket
	February 14, 2002			VRCL-2232	DSD
	May 27, 2009	Sony Music Direct		MHCL-20014	DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket
	February 3, 2016		Music download	1076263140	iTunes Store[2]
				4582290414058	mora AAC-LC 320 kbps[3]
				A1003862509	Recochoku AAC 320 kbps[4]
				B01B5AUSBY	Amazon.com[5]
				Bdumwosz3ekg2h3hngvd3sw2imy	Google Play Music[6]
	July 27, 2016			4582290418636	mora DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[7]
				smj4582290418636	e-onkyo DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[8]
				11192	HD-music DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[9]
				4582290418629	mora FLAC 96.0 kHz/24bit[10]
				A2000673648	Recochoku FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[11]
				smj4582290418629	e-onkyo FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[12]
				11200	HD-music FLAC 96 kHz/24bit[13]
				1f353675da1293911390	AWA 320kbps[14]
	November 10, 2016			7eD42sbisKITCvix2hcKFS	Spotify[15]

See also

• 1984 in Japanese music