The Party (Casiopea album)

The Party AUDIO STACK
Studio album by Casiopea
Released	June 25, 1990
Recorded	April 1990
Studio	Mitaka studio, Tokyo
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	49:08
Label	Pioneer LDC PICL-1006
Producer	Casiopea
Casiopea chronology
Casiopea World Live '88 (1988) The Party AUDIO STACK (1990) Full Colors (1991)

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The Party AUDIO STACK (The Party) is the 20th album by Japanese jazz fusion band Casiopea. In addition, the video was released simultaneously as The Party VISUAL STACK on June 25, 1990 with LaserDisc and VHS. Also, when we sent the application tickets attached to "AUDIO STACK" and "VISUAL STACK", we got The Party EXTRA STACK (VHS LPR-017) by lottery.
This album marked the joining of Yoshihiro Naruse (bass) and Masaaki Hiyama (drums) to the band. This is also Casiopea's 20th overall album.

Track listing of AUDIO STACK (CD PICL-1006)

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Cyber Zone"	Minoru Mukaiya, Issei Noro	3:55
2.	"Aoi-Honoh"	Issei Noro	4:10
3.	"Illusion"	Issei Noro	4:04
4.	"Nostalgia"	Issei Noro	4:43
5.	"Flush Up"	Minoru Mukaiya	4:19
6.	"Stormy Hearts"	Minoru Mukaiya	3:03
7.	"Mokugeki-Sya"	Issei Noro	4:26
8.	"Romancing"	Issei Noro	3:38
9.	"Tokimeki"	Issei Noro	4:18
10.	"Golden Island"	Minoru Mukaiya, Issei Noro	4:23
11.	"The Party Night"	Issei Noro	3:39
12.	"Dai-Sekai"	Issei Noro	4:30
Total length:			49:08

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Electric guitar, Acoustic guitar

Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards

Yoshihiro Naruse - Electric Bass

Masaaki Hiyama - Drums

Production

• Sound producer – Casiopea
• Project Producer – Taketsune Kubo
• Recording & mixing engineers – Koji Sugimori
• Assistant engineers – Masashi Kudo, Yuji Kuraishi
• Synclavier Operator – Kenji Takizawa
• Mastering Engineers – Mitsuharu Kobayashi
• Art director – Mitsuaki Takeda
• Cover design – Mayumi Fujimori
• Photograph – Toshtaka Niwa

Release history of AUDIO STACK

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	June 25, 1990	Pioneer LDC	12cmCD	PICL-1006	stereo
			Cassette	PITL-1006
	July 26, 2006	Geneon Entertainment	12cmCD	GNCL-1076

References

• 『BAND SCORE CASIOPEA THE PARTY』August 20, 1990 Rittor Music, Inc. ISBN 4845601370

External links

• CASIOPEA – The Party at Discogs
• The Party at MusicBrainz

The Party VISUAL STACK

The Party VISUAL STACK
Video by Casiopea
Released	June 25, 1990
Recorded	April 1990
Studio	Mitaka studio, Tokyo
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	53:00
Label	Pioneer LDC PILL-5002
Producer	Takatsune Kudo
Casiopea chronology
JOIA (1988) The Party VISUAL STACK (1990) Full Colors (1991)

The Party VISUAL STACK (The Party) is the video work by Japanese jazz fusion band Casiopea on June 25, 1990 with LaserDisc and VHS. At the same time, album The Party AUDIO STACK was also released. Also, when we sent the application tickets attached to "AUDIO STACK" and "VISUAL STACK", we got The Party EXTRA STACK (VHS LPR-017) by lottery.
This album marked the joining of Yoshihiro Naruse (bass) and Masaaki Hiyama (drums) to the band.

Track listing of VISUAL STACK (DVD GNBL-1006)

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Opening"	-	0:12
2.	"Dai-Sekai"	Issei Noro	4:30
3.	"The Party Night"	Issei Noro	3:39
4.	"Drums Solo～Bass Solo"	-	3:40
5.	"Aoi-Honoh"	Issei Noro	4:10
6.	"Nostalgia"	Issei Noro	4:43
7.	"Illusion"	Issei Noro	4:04
8.	"Stormy Hearts"	Minoru Mukaiya	3:03
9.	"Mokugeki-Sya"	Issei Noro	4:26
10.	"Romancing"	Issei Noro	3:38
11.	"Flush Up"	Minoru Mukaiya	4:19
12.	"Cyber Zone"	Minoru Mukaiya, Issei Noro	3:55
13.	"Tokimeki"	Issei Noro	4:18
14.	"Golden Island"	Minoru Mukaiya, Issei Noro	4:43
15.	"Explanation by Issei Noro, Minoru Mukaiya, Yoshihiro Naruse"		23:00
Total length:			76:00

(*) 15 is bonus truck of DVD GNBL-1006.

Track listing of EXTRA STACK (VHS LPR-017)

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Making Shots"	-	0:12
2.	"Dai-Sekai"	Issei Noro	4:30
3.	"Ending shots"	-	3:39
Total length:			10:18

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Electric guitar, Acoustic guitar

Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards

Yoshihiro Naruse - Electric Bass

Masaaki Hiyama - Drums

DANCERS

Tomomi Imai

Yoshiko Uno

Kumiko Sawada

Yukari Nakamoto

Chieko Noguchi

Andy Blankenbuehler

Izumi Aochi

Shigeo Kathy

Nobuaki Hagino

Kazushi Yabe

Production

• Director – Hideki Tsushima (PIPCO)
• Dance director – Rocky
• Assistant director – Masatoshi Sato, Ryuji Sugiyama
• Director of Photography - Joji Ide
• Cameraman - Shigeru Mikoshiba, Hiro Ito, Shinichi Chiba, Takashi Suga, Toshihiro Ota
• Camera Assistant - Kazuya Yamagata, keiji Hashimoto, Yumiko Yamagata, Takuko Nishiyama, Akinori Shigeeda, Tatsuo Tanaka, Kenji Shibata, Toru Suzuki, Naoki Tokugawa
• Choreographer - Koji Otsuka, Kamori Kanaya
• Choreograph Assistant - Naomi Shibata, Yumiko Tsukuda
• Lighting director – Hiroyuki Matsumoto
• Lighting Designer - Mitsutaka Gotoh
• Syncrolite Operator – Yoshikazu Yamada
• Sub Operator – Taro Kondo
• Syncrolite Engineer - Hideyuki Asada
• Lighting Assistant - Akira Hasegawa, Masayuki Eto, Kimiko Asada, Masahiro Kobayashi, Takashi Ya,ashita, Hirokazu Uchida, Kanae Nonaka, Hiroshi Inumaki, Chie Okawa, Mina Ishigaki, Masakazu Sasaki
• Production designer – Yoshitoshi Egashira
• Art director – Tadahiko Komiyama
• Special Effect - Toshiyuki Hatanaka
• Assistant Engineer - Masashi Kudo, Yuji Kuraishi, Tetsuo Saito, Takeshi Higuchi, Takeshi Sasaki, Shanty Kobayashi, Hiroto Tsuruta, Shigeru Takagi, Kazumi Ichinose
• P.A. Engineer - Tsutomu Ueda
• Assistant Engineer - Jiro Arita
• Synclavier Engineer - Kenji Takizawa, David Fromm, Steven Fromm, Ikuo Honma
• Rail & Crane System - Tatsumi Kuramochi, Susumu Nanba, Yujiro Takeda, Tsutomu Abe, Shinji Arima, Norio Ninomiya, Mikio Sakai, Futoshi Yokobori, Seiji Takaku, Toshiya Tsurumi, Kenshiro Fujiwara, Takatori Mukai
• Hair & Make up – Hisako Oguri
• FV Engineer - Yoshiki Nishina
• Editor - N・A・O
• M.A. Mixer - Takumi Murayama
• Sound Effect - Nori Miyata
• Art designer – Mitsuaki Takeda
• Cover Designer - Mayumi Fujimori
• Assistant Producer - Tadashi Nomura
• Chief Manager - Kazuaki Negishi
• Manager - Takeshi Inoue
• Technicians - Shigeo Matsuyama, Yasushi Horiuchi, Yoshitsugu Nozawa
• Co-Producer - Shunsuke Goto (TAMCO)
• Producer - Takatsune Kudo (PIONEER LDC)

Release history of VISUAL STACK

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	June 25, 1990	Pioneer LDC	LaserDisc	PILL-5002	NTSC, DigitalAUDIO
			VHS	PIVL-5002
	January 24, 2001		DVD	PIBL-1009	4.3, PCM, Region codes 2
	June 23, 2004	Geneon Entertainment		GNBL-1006	4.3, PCM, Dolby Digital, 5.1ch Surround sound

External links

• LasorDisc Database Cassiopeia: The Party VISUAL STACK