Photographs (Casiopea album)

Photographs is the seventh studio album by Japanese jazz fusion band Casiopea, released on April 23, 1983 by Alfa Records.

Photographs
Studio album by Casiopea
Released	April 23, 1983
Recorded	January 24–March 8, 1983
Studio	Studio "A", Tokyo
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	40:38
Label	Alfa
Producer	Issei Noro, Shunsuke Miyazumi
Casiopea chronology
4x4 (1982) Photographs (1983) Jive Jive (1983)

Background and recording

Prior to recording, each member went on a trip to various parts of the world to gain inspiration (Issei Noro to India, Minoru Mukaiya to Europe, etc.). These trips gave the album a new style, while also keeping with the established sound from Cross Point. This album also marks Casiopea's first use of the E-mu Emulator sampling keyboard.

"Looking Up" and "Misty Lady" were very popular among fans, and became staple tracks in live shows.

Promotion

On the same day this album was released, Casiopea performed at the "Hot Sounds Island" Music Festival at the Nippon Budokan concert hall, where they performed "Looking Up" for the first time. The last song Casiopea played was a cover of Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely". This concert was filmed for television, and three songs from this concert, "Looking Up", "Space Road", and "Eyes of the Mind" were released on the Casiopea, Again DVD in 2000.

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Looking Up"	Issei Noro	4:25
2.	"Dazzling"	Noro	4:16
3.	"Long Term Memory"	Noro	4:15
4.	"Strasse"	Minoru Mukaiya	3:40
5.	"Out Drive"	Sadao Watanabe	3:38
Total length:			20:14

Side two

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Misty Lady"	Noro	3:45
2.	"Love You Day by Day"	Tetsuo Sakurai	4:02
3.	"Spice Road"	Noro	4:33
4.	"Fruit Salad Sunday"	Akira Jimbo	3:59
5.	"From Over the Sky"	Noro	4:05
Total length:			20:24

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Electric guitar (Yamaha SG-2000, SG-1000 Fretless), Electric acoustic guitar, Sitar, Amdeck Percussion Synthesizer, Prophet-10, Linn LM-1, Vocal (A2, B2)

Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards (Yamaha GS-1, DX-9, CS-70M, CP-35, Moog the SOURCE, Roland VP-330, Prophet-10, Oberheim OB-Xa, Emulator, Linn LM-1)

Tetsuo Sakurai - Electric Bass (Yamaha BB-2000 Milk Bass, Kramer DMZ-6000B), Vocal (B2)

Akira Jimbo - Drums (Yamaha YD-9000 RG), Percussion, Amdeck Percussion Synthesizer, Linn LM-1

Production

• Producer - Shunsuke Miyazumi, Issei Noro
• Recording Engineer - Norio Yoshizawa
• Assistant Engineer - Shinji Miyoshi
• Re-mixed - Norio Yoshizawa, Issei Noro
• Mastering - Mituharu Kobayashi
• Art Direction - Kaoru Watanabe
• Cover design - Kaoru Watanabe, Hiroyasu Yoshioka, Katsunori Hironaka
• Photographer - Kohei Onishi
• Stylist - Makiko Nakamura
• Hair and Make Up - Mitzi(JET)
• Remastering engineer - Kouji Suzuki (2016)

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	April 23, 1983	Alfa Records	stereo 30cmLP	ALR-28049	STEREO
	November 28, 1983		12cmCD	38XA-3
	January 25, 1987			32XA-111
	March 21, 1992			ALCA-279
	July 27, 1994			ALCA-9009
	August 29, 1998			ALCA-9204
	January 23, 2002	Village Records	remastered 12cmCD	VRCL-2209	DSD, LP paper jacket
	February 14, 2002			VRCL-2229	DSD
	May 27, 2009	Sony Music Direct		MHCL-20011	DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket
	February 3, 2016		Music download	1076213357	iTunes Store[1]
				4582290414027	mora AAC-LC 320 kbps[2]
				A1003862520	Recochoku AAC 320 kbps[3]
				B01B5ATTUA	Amazon.com[4]
				B4srhtcoeeoavgecyxieqnmyudy	Google Play Music[5]
	July 27, 2016			4582290418865	mora DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[6]
				smj4582290418865/	e-onkyo DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[7]
				11185	HD-music DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[8]
				4582290418858	mora FLAC 96.0 kHz/24bit[9]
				A2000673649	Recochoku FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[10]
				smj4582290418858	e-onkyo FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[11]
				11174	HD-music FLAC 96 kHz/24bit[12]
				bc1490781cf74f4ce886	AWA 320kbps[13]
	November 10, 2016			1MxF83wb0VOoCCPRVKOeVy	Spotify[14]

See also

• 1983 in Japanese music

External links

• CASIOPEA – Photographs at Discogs
• Photographs at MusicBrainz