Casiopea World Live '88

Casiopea World Live '88 is the fifth live album released by the jazz fusion group Casiopea in 1988. It is a compilation Album consisting of recordings of some of their songs played in concert during Casiopea's World Tour in 1988 that promoted their previous album "Euphony". It is also a collaboration album with two Japanese horn sections from two other bands, the brass section of "Spectrum" and the brass Section of "The Tops". Additionally, it is the first album Spectrum recorded since their breakup in 1981, and is their penultimate album (their last album after they broke up was released in 1991 and was a remix compilation album of songs that were hits in Japan from the late 1970s). Lead trumpeter/vocalist of Spectrum, Ichiro Nitta, was also the Producer of "The Tops" at the time this album was released. Tops released one more album, "Soul Children", the following year, before they disbanded in 1991. That same year, Spectrum released their "Super Remix" album. This was also the last album to feature Tetsuo Sakurai on Bass and Akira Jimbo on Drums (during his run as a full-time member), who both left to form the band Jimsaku.

CD(POCH-1223, UPCY-6540) Track listing
12, 13 bonus truck are not included in H33P-20285.

Personnel
Casiopea are
 * Issei Noro - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
 * Minoru Mukaiya - keyboards
 * Tetsuo Sakurai - 6 string electric bass
 * Akira Jimbo - drums

Guest Musicians

 * Horn Arrangement - Ichiro Nitta (LP:A1, B5)(CD:1,10,11,12,13)

Horn Spectrum are
 * Ichiro Nitta - trumpet
 * Junichi Kanezaki - trumpet
 * Toshiyuki Yoshida - trombone

Tops Horns are
 * Shigeru Terauchi - trumpet
 * Junichi Kawasaki - trumpet
 * Takashi Kudo - trombone
 * Masahiro Kuroishi - tenor saxophone

Production

 * Producer - Issei Noro
 * Executive producer - Katsuki Hagiwara, Shinichi Toyama

Recorded on
 * July 9th (Projeto Sp. São Paulo, Brazil) [LP:A3, A4] [CD:3,4]
 * August 23rd (World Expo 88, Brisbane, Australia) [LP:A5] [CD:5]
 * August 27th (Yomiuriland Open Theater East, Tokyo, Japan) [LP:A1,A2,B5] [CD:1,2,10,11,12,13]
 * September 10th (Auditorio National, Mexico City, Mexico) [LP:B1,B2] [CD:6,7]
 * September 13th (Roxy, Los Angeles, U.S.A.) [LP:B3,B4] [CD:8,9]


 * Recording engineers - Roberto Marques (Brazil), Steve Pyle (Australia), Bob Hodas (U.S.A.), Tsutomu Ueda (Mexico), and Akitsugu Doi (Tokyo)
 * Mixing engineer - Akitsugu Doi, Tutomu Ueda
 * Assistant engineer - Masashi Kudo
 * Tour supervisor - Shinichi Toyama
 * Top Producer - Noboru Miura
 * Project co-ordinator - Masato Arai
 * Tour management - Fumiaki Takahashi
 * Tour crew - Ichiro Gohara, Tsutomu Ueda, Katsuhiro Maruichi, Kazumasa Mitsui, Hideji Uekusa, Hisashi Aratake.
 * Art director - Yoshiyuki Menjoh
 * Designer - Yuji Sugita
 * Photograph - Nakao Wada, Kazumi Okuma, Eiryo Asada
 * Hair and makeup - Kaoru Chiba

LD/DVD
JOIA - Casioea World Tour - is the live video released by the jazz fusion group Casiopea in 1989. Later on, it was released on DVD with the name Live History Part II.

Personnel
Casiopea are
 * Issei Noro - Electric guitar, Acoustic Guitar
 * Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards
 * Tetsuo Sakurai - 6 Strings Electric Bass
 * Akira Jimbo - Drums

Guest Musicians

 * Horn arrangement - Ichiro Nitta (2-2〜4,2-6)

Horn Spectrum are
 * Ichiro Nitta - trumpet
 * Junichi Kanezaki - trumpet
 * Toshiyuki Yoshida - trombone

Tops Horns are
 * Shigeru Terauchi - trumpet
 * Junichi Kawasaki - trumpet
 * Takashi Kudo - trombone
 * Masahiro Kuroishi - tenor saxophone

Production

 * Director - Hideaki Oguri
 * Producer - Ryoichi Okuda (L.D.C.), Shunsuke Goth (TAMCO)
 * Technical supervisor - Makoto Kagawa, Kiyoshi Yaezawa
 * Video editor - Susumu "FRYO" Iguchi, Hideaki Oguri
 * Sound mixing engineer - Akitsugu Doi
 * Supervisor - Shinichi Toyama (Aura Music)
 * Tour producer - Noboru Miura (Soreisha)
 * Tour management - Fumiaki Takahashi
 * Assistant director - Kiyoji Yoshino, Atsushi Kimura
 * M.A. engineer - Takami Yuasa
 * Sound mixing assistant - Masashi Kudo
 * Production assistant manager - Hiroshi Mizutani
 * Runner - Kenichi Matsumoto
 * Assistant editor - Kohei Ishizaki
 * Edit co-ordinator - Kouichi Umeda
 * Stylist - Reiko Shishi
 * Designer - Mitsuaki Takeda (L.D.C.)
 * Tour co-ordinator - Masato Arai
 * Tour crew - Katsuhiro Maruichi, Ichiro Gohara, Tsutomu Ueda, Kazumasa Mitsui, Hideji Uekusa, Hisashi Aratake

Brazil staff

 * Sup operações - M. Lucena
 * Dir tecnico - N. Cagiano
 * Sup tec - Carlos A. Fonseca
 * Co-dir - Simoes
 * Cameraman - Shigeru Mikoshiba, Carlinhos, Michell, Di Nizo, Marcelo, Leonard Yamaguchi
 * Video engineer - Kazuhiro Nagame, Pedro, Valdir, Luizinho, Baldini, Robson
 * AssistanttTecnico - J. Servulo
 * Camera assistant - Paulo, Hamilton
 * Aux mecs - Erco
 * Sound recording engineer - Roberto Marques, João Roberto Guarino
 * Sound assistant engineer - Jose Alberto Pimentel, Carlos Guedes, Dijalma Silva
 * Illumination - Walter, L. Fernando, Claudio, Arnaldo
 * Video mobil - TV Bandeirantes
 * Audio Equipments - Transamerica
 * Co-ordination - Nambei Tshushin Sha, Gisaburo Owa, Marina Satoh, Leonard Yamaguchi
 * Tour Co-ordination - Hallelujah World, Toshiharu Masanobu, Makio Terao

Australia staff

 * Co-producer - Kei Robards
 * Co-director - Malcom Kemp.
 * Technical director - G. Nettle, B. Cassidy
 * Switcher - P. Lesson
 * Cameraman - Makoto Kogawa, Glen Watson, Steve Cahill, Brian Barnard, Bob McCall, Greg Clark
 * Video engineer - Barry Sutherland, G. Venn, C. Koeneman, J. Waiter, J. Galea, I. Andrews
 * VTR - Craig Metcalfe, D. Webb
 * Sound recording engineer - Steve Pyle, J. Boast
 * Sound recording assistant - G. Son
 * Assistant director - K. Wilson
 * Lighting - J. Bosak
 * Video and audio mobile - TVO (Network Ten), Video Ten
 * Co-ordination - West Street Productions, Tom Kanazaki, Jinni Hazard

Japan staff

 * Technical director - Kiyoshi Yaezawa
 * Chief cameraman - Makoto Kogawa
 * Cameramen - Joji Ide, Shigeru Mikoshiba, Dave Kajimoto, Tsutomu Akahira, Shinichi Chiba, Jun Kosaka, Masato Ishikawa, Yoji Miyazaki, Teruo Ito, Akio Suzaki, Hiroshi Watanabe (Com-remote)
 * Video engineer - Masaru Konno, Akiyoshi Serino, Kazuhiro Nagame, Yoshitaka Kenkou, Hiroyuki Toida
 * VTR - Hisaki Fukuda, Takashi Suzuki
 * Switcher - Hirohito Ikemoto
 * Camera assistant - Fumito Kotani, Hiroshi Oyama, Junichi Yokoyama, Katsunori Ikemoto, Mitsunori Kishizoe
 * Rail and crane system - Hiroshi Iwasaki, Kozo Nashiki, Kazuya Nakamura, Yutaka Oshima, Shigeru Hirayama, Toshihiro Nakamura, Katsuo Ito, Shinji Kanzaki, Koji Kanaya
 * Sound recording engineer - Akitsugu Doi
 * Sound recording Assistants - Yoshiyasu Kumada, Makoto Takahashi, Tomoyasu Yamashita, Shoji Kusunoki
 * P.A. - Tsutomu Ueda, Kimio Kurokawa
 * Stage art pranner - Kazunori Higuchi
 * Lighting director - Ichiro Gohara
 * Lighting - Yukihisa Nishimura
 * Stage manager - Katsumi Ninagawa, Masayuki Yagi, Seiji Ohashi
 * Location lighting - Kouichi Seo, Tsugio Mizuno

Mexico staff

 * Cameraman - Makoto Kagawa
 * Video engineer - Kazuhiro Nagame
 * Sound recording engineer - Tsutomu Ueda
 * Co-director - Oscar J. Vera Mendez
 * Video system - TV Imevision
 * Co-ordinator - Setsuo Morishima
 * Stage manager - Ryuichi Masamura

U.S.A. Staff

 * Technical director - Mike Harrington
 * Technical co-ordinator - Steve North
 * Cameraman - Guy Casagrande, George Prince, Joe Dallura, Dave Kister, Doug Frobie, Makoto Kagawa
 * Gaffer - Marx Misenhiemer
 * Video engineer - Bill Schwartz, Terry Baysdofer, Jon Karhan, John Karhan
 * Camera assistant - Engine Fitzpatrick
 * Sound recording engineer - Bob Hodas, Video Mobil, Video One, Audio Mobile, Record Plant
 * Co-ordination - Muru Okuda (Filmore International)
 * Associates co-ordination - Alvin Mori, Ron Martinez (Lumination)