Active (Casiopea album)
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Active is the sixteenth studio album released by the jazz fusion
group Casiopea
in 1992. The album was recorded in Australia
, Also where Casiopea's Live Album "Made in Melbourne" (and "We Want More", which continues the Live Set) was recorded.
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...
group Casiopea
Casiopea
, named as a misspelling of the constellation Cassiopeia, was a Japanese jazz fusion band that was formed in 1976 by guitarist Issei Noro, bassist Tetsuo Sakurai and keyboardist Hidehiko Koike. In 1977, keyboardist Minoru Mukaiya and drummer Takashi Sasaki joined the group, leaving Hidehiko out of...
in 1992. The album was recorded in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, Also where Casiopea's Live Album "Made in Melbourne" (and "We Want More", which continues the Live Set) was recorded.
Track listing
Personnel
CASIOPEA are- Issei NoroIssei Norois 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...
– Electric guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
, Acoustic guitarAcoustic guitarAn acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound... - Minoru MukaiyaMinoru Mukaiyais a Japanese musician. He joined the jazz fusion band Casiopea in 1979 as keyboardist.He is also the producer of the train simulator game, Train Simulator and CEO of Ongakukan, even the first musician in Japan who plays iPad piano apps ever.-Discography:as a Keyboardist for Casiopea*Casiopea...
– KeyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments... - Yoshihiro Naruse – Electric BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Masaaki HiyamaMasaaki Hiyamais a Japanese jazz drummer that participated in some of Japan's more well known fusion bands. He is a former member of Casiopea.-Biography:1979: Joined a fusion group called “Guitarist Creek”, they participated in Cross-Wind . Masaaki met Casiopea at this time. They became good friends...
– DrumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person .... -
- Alex Pertout – Percussions
- Doron Kipen – Fairlight Operator
Production
- Sound ProducedRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
– CasiopeaCasiopea, named as a misspelling of the constellation Cassiopeia, was a Japanese jazz fusion band that was formed in 1976 by guitarist Issei Noro, bassist Tetsuo Sakurai and keyboardist Hidehiko Koike. In 1977, keyboardist Minoru Mukaiya and drummer Takashi Sasaki joined the group, leaving Hidehiko out of...
- Recording & Mixing Engineers – Ross Cockle
- Assistant Engineers – Mathew Thomas
- Additional Recording Assistant Engineer – Hideyuki Hirata
- Mastering Engineers – Tohru Kotetsu
- Supervisor – Tadashi Nomura
- Producer – Ryoichi Okuda
- Executive Producer – Yoshiaki Mizutani
- Artists Manager – Takashi E. Norway
- Promotion Director – Hiroharu Sato
- Technician – Yasushi "Mayuge" Horiuchi, Shigeo Matsuyama
- Art Director – Satoshi Yanagisawa
- Photograph – Junichi Takahashi
Release history
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... |
May 25, 1992 | Pioneer LDC Pioneer Corporation is a multinational corporation that specializes in digital entertainment products, based in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. The company was founded in 1938 in Tokyo as a radio and speaker repair shop... |
CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... |
PICL-1036 | |
| Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... |
July 26, 2006 | Geneon Entertainment | CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... |
GNCL-1078 | |