''Cassis'' is the 20th solo

studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ...

by Japanese singer-songwriter

Yōsui Inoue is a Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, guitarist and record producer, who is an important figure in Japanese music. "Hailed as the Bob Dylan of Japan .. He is renowned for his unique tone, eccentric lyrics, and dark sunglasses which he al ...

, released in July 2002. The album includes "Kimerareta Rhythm", which was featured on the

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-nominated

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'' The Twilight Samurai'', directed by

Yoji Yamada is a Japanese film director best known for his ''Otoko wa Tsurai yo'' series of films and his Samurai Trilogy ('' The Twilight Samurai'', '' The Hidden Blade'' and '' Love and Honor''). Biography Yamada was born in Osaka, but due to his father' ...

. The song "You are the Top" was originally contributed to the same-titled musical by

Kōki Mitani is a Japanese playwright, screenwriter, actor and film director and was previously married to Japanese actress Satomi Kobayashi. He was named after ''Taihō Kōki'', the youngest Rikishi, sumo wrestler to become yokozuna. He studied dramatics ...

. Two singles were cut from the album: "Kono Yo no Sadame" and "Final Love Song"; both songs were featured on the TV advertisings of Kirin Beverage starring Inoue himself.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue, unless otherwise indicated #"" - 4:23 #"" - 5:00 #"Final Love Song" - 4:25 #"" - 4:28 #"" - 6:18 #"" - 3:19 #"" (Inoue/Natsumi Hirai) - 3:10 #"" (Inoue/Hirai) - 2:28 #"You are the Top" (Inoue/Hirai/

) - 4:28 #"" - 4:47 #"" - 4:13

Personnel

*Yōsui Inoue - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, hand-claps *Tsuyoshi Kon - electric guitar, acoustic guitar *Haruo Kubota -

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups ...

*Takayuki Hijikata - electric guitar *Tsuneo Imabori - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, computer programming *Chiharu Mikuzuki -

electric bass The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an electric but with a longer neck and scale leng ...

, uplight bass,

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*Masafumi Minato -

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

*Hideo Yamaki - drums *Matarou Misawa -

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

* Yahiro Tomohiro - percussion *Nobuo Kurata -

acoustic piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an action mechanism where hammers strike strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a chromatic scale in equal tempe ...

*Natsumi Hirai - acoustic piano *Yasuharu Nakanishi - acoustic piano,

electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument that has a piano-style musical keyboard, where sound is produced by means of mechanical hammers striking metal strings or reeds or wire tines, which leads to vibrations which are then converted into ele ...

*Yoshiki Kojima - acoustic piano, keyboards,

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*Yūta Saitō - acoustic piano, keyboards *Masao Ōmura - keyboards *Banana U-G - keyboards, computer programming *Kazuya Miyazaki - computer programming *Tetsuo Ishikawa - computer programming *Yōichi Murata - trombone, bass trombone *Kōji Nishimura -

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

*Shirou Sasaki - trumpet *Masahiko Sugasaka - trumpet *Takuo Yamamoto -

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to p ...

*Bob Zang - saxophone *Masakuni Takeno - saxophone *Udai Shike -

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