''Full Colors'' is the twenty-first album and the fifteenth studio album by the

jazz fusion Jazz fusion (also known as jazz rock, jazz-rock fusion, or simply fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric gui ...

group

Casiopea , is a Japanese jazz fusion band formed in 1976 by guitarist Issei Noro, bassist Tetsuo Sakurai, drummer Tohru "Rika" Suzuki, and keyboardist Hidehiko Koike. In 1977, keyboardist Minoru Mukaiya and drummer Takashi Sasaki ( ja) replaced Koik ...

recorded and released in 1991. At the same time, the video work ''MOTION PICTURE FROM FULL COLORS'' was also released.

Track listing

Personnel

CASIOPEA are :

Issei Noro is a Japanese jazz fusion guitarist who is one of the founding members and the main composer of the band Casiopea. He has released 6 solo albums and a compilation. He also works as an instructor of a guitar clinic, and as a producer. In 1983, ...

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 ...

Acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

Minoru Mukaiya is a Japanese musician best known as the former keyboardist of the jazz fusion band Casiopea and producer of the Train Simulator series of Japanese video games. Mukaiya joined Casiopea during its formation in 1977 (with guitarist Issei Noro, d ...

- Keyboards : Yoshihiro Naruse -

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 ...

, 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 ...

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 ...

, Percussion :

Guest musicians (5,7,9)

*Gen Ogimi (

Orquesta de la Luz is a Japanese salsa band that was formed in 1984, and began performing and recording in 1989. The band sings in Spanish and is led by vocalist Nora Shoji, who returned to traditional salsa after the band broke up in the mid-1990s. It became w ...

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Timbales Timbales () or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing. They are shallower than single-headed tom-toms and usually tuned much higher, especially for their size.Orovio, Helio 1981. ''Diccionario de la música cubana: biográfic ...

Percussions A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

*Carlos Kanno (Orquesta de la Luz) - Bongo &

*Gen Date (Orquesta de la Luz) -

Conga The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest ...

Production

* Sound Produced -

*Recording & Mixing Engineers - Koji Sugimori *Assistant Engineers - Yuji Kuraishi, Masashi Kudo, Yasuo Nakajima, Katsumi Moriya, Kengo Katoh, Kazuyoshi Hirayama *Mastering Engineers - Tohru Kotetsu *Producer - Ryoichi Okuda *Director - Taketsune Kubo *Executive Producer - Kunihiko Otsuka *Supervisor - Tadashi Nomura *Artists Manager - Takashi E. Norway *Promotion Director - Hiroharu Sato, Toshiharu Kawatsuna *Technician - Yasushi "Mayuge" Horiuchi *Cover Design - Hidetake Awano *Cover Coordinate - Mitsuaki Takeda *Photograph - Ryosuke Takashi *Cover Graphics - I-S PHOTO INC.

Release history

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''Motion Picture from Full Colors'' is the video work by the

group

released in 1991 at the same time as the ''Full Colors'' album. It was released on LaserDisc single and VHS and re-released on DVD as part of ''the way of CASIOPEA'' on June 23, 2004.

Commentary

Three songs promotion video and making video are included.

Track listing

Release history

References

* 『BAND SCORE CASIOPEA FULL COLORS』 1991 Rittor Music, Inc.

External links

LaserDisk Database Casiopea: Motion Pictures from Full Colors
* * * 1991 albums Casiopea albums 1991 video albums Casiopea video albums {{1990s-jazz-album-stub