The Party (Casiopea album)

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.

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

The Party VISUAL STACK
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)
(*) 15 is bonus truck of DVD GNBL-1006.

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)