''Active'' is the twenty-second album and the sixteenth studio album by the
jazz fusion group
Casiopea, recorded and released in 1992. The album was recorded in
Australia
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, 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 Noro –
Electric guitar
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, Fretless guitar
:
Minoru Mukaiya –
Keyboards
:
Yoshihiro Naruse –
Electric Bass
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, Fretless bass
:
Masaaki Hiyama
is a Japanese jazz drummer who participated in some of Japan's more well known fusion bands. He was a former member of jazz-fusion band Casiopea.
Biography
In 1979, he joined a fusion group called Guitarist Creek. They participated in Cross-Wind ...
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Drums
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Guest musician
*Alex Pertout –
Percussion
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s
*Doron Kipen – Fairlight Operator
Production
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Sound Produced –
Casiopea
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Recording & Mixing Engineer – Ross Cockle
*Assistant Engineer – Mathew Thomas
*Additional Recording Assistant Engineer – Hideyuki Hirata
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Mastering engineer
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– Tohru Kotetsu
*Supervisor – Tadashi Nomura
*Producer – Ryoichi Okuda
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Executive Producer
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– 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
External links
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References
1992 albums
Casiopea albums
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