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1988 studio album by Casiopea

Euphony

Studio album by Casiopea

Released

April 25, 1988

Recorded

from January 7 to February 5, 1988

Studio

Studio Jive, Tokyo

Genre

Jazz fusion

Length

40:55

Label

Polydor K.K. / AURA
28MX-2549

Producer

Issei Noro, Shunsuke Miyazumi

Casiopea chronology

Platinum
(1987)

Euphony
(1988)

Casiopea World Live '88
(1988)

Singles from Euphony

"Bayside Express/Taiyo-Fu H10P-30002"
Released: April 25, 1988

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic

Euphony is the 18th album released by the jazz fusion group Casiopea in 1988.

Track listing

Side A
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Taiyo-Fu" (The Wind From The Sun)	Issei Noro	4:13
2.	"Shadow Man"	Issei Noro	4:07
3.	"Super Sonic Movement"	Issei Noro	4:24
4.	"Inishie" (Old Times)	Minoru Mukaiya	3:44
5.	"Bayside Express"	Issei Noro	4:54
Total length:			20:52

Side B
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Sentimental Avenue"	Issei Noro	3:25
2.	"Solid Swing"	Akira Jimbo	1:58
3.	"Hacker"	Minoru Mukaiya	3:25
4.	"Pure Green"	Issei Noro	4:10
5.	"Red Zone"	Tetsuo Sakurai	3:07
6.	"Mei-Mu" (Shallow Dreams)	Issei Noro	3:58
Total length:			20:03

Re-released in 2009 with "Halle" (live version) added to the track listing.

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Electric guitar (YAMAHA ISSEI MODEL, G10 Guitar MIDI Controller with TX802 & D-50, RX-5), Acoustic guitar (D'AGOSTINO GUITAR)

Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards (YAMAHA KX-88, DX-7, TX-816, TX-16W, QX-3, RX-5, EMULATOR II, KORG DSM-1, Acoustic Piano, ROLAND D-50 & D-550, DYNACORD ADD-one, OBERHEIM EXPANDER)

Tetsuo Sakurai - Electric Bass (YAMAHA BB-5000 & 5000 W/PIEZO PICK UP. STUD Bass, BB-3000 fretless)

Akira Jimbo - Drums (YAMAHA YD-9000 & 6000 Series, ZILDJAN CYMBALS & Hooper Drum)

Production

Producer - Issei Noro, Shunsuke Miyazumi
Executive producer - Katsuki Hagiwara, Shinichi Toyama
Director - Koichi Nakagawa
Recording & Mixing Engineer - Koji Sugimori
Mixing engineer - Mitsuharu Kobayashi
Digital Editing Engineer - Kazumi Sugiura
Assistant Engineers - Hiroyuki Shimura, Yuji Kuraishi, Masashi Kudo

Production management - Masato Arai
Management - Fumiaki Takahashi, Katsuhiro Maruichi, Hisashi Aratake
Equipment Co-Ordinator - Hideji "Mahka" Uekusa

Art Director - Masami Akiyama
Photograph - Osamu Yabushita
Stylist - Reiko Ohishi
Hair & Make - Tadamichi Hiwatashi
Visual Supervisor - Masahiro Tomioka

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	April 25, 1988	Polydor K.K. / AURA	30cmLP	28MX-2549	stereo
	April 25, 1988		12cmCD	H33P-20241
	July 1, 1992		12cmCD	POCH-1222
	June 24, 2009	Universal Music LLC / AURA	remastered SHM-CD	UPCY-6539
	June 24, 2017	Universal Music LLC / AURA	remastered SHM-CD	UPCY-9701	J-FUSION 40th

External links

CASIOPEA – Euphony at Discogs
Euphony at MusicBrainz

References

Allmusic review

Casiopea / Casiopea 3rd / Casiopea-P4

Issei Noro
Yoshihiro Naruse (ja)
Kiyomi Otaka (ja)
Yoshinori Imai

Hidehiko Koike
Minoru Mukaiya
Tetsuo Sakurai
Toru "Rika" Suzuki
Takashi Sasaki (ja)
Akira Jimbo
Masaaki Hiyama
Noriaki Kumagai (ja)

Studio albums

Casiopea
Super Flight
Make Up City
Eyes of the Mind
Cross Point
4x4
Photographs
Jive Jive
Down Upbeat
Halle
Sun Sun
Platinum
Euphony
The Party
Full Colors
Active
Dramatic
Answers
Freshness
Flowers
Light and Shadows
Be
Material
Bitter Sweet
Main Gate
Inspire
Places
Marble
Signal
Ta·Ma·Te·Box
A·So·Bo
I·Bu·Ki
A·Ka·Ri
PANSPERMIA
New Topics
Right Now

Live albums

Compilations

Bands	Jimsaku T-Square Prism (ja)
People	Randy Brecker Michael Brecker Harvey Mason Hiroyuki Noritake

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