''Light and Shadows'' is the thirtieth album and the twenty-first 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 1997. This album features guest drummer

Harvey Mason Harvey William Mason (born February 22, 1947) is an American jazz drummer, record producer, and member of the band Fourplay. He was the original drummer for Herbie Hancock's band The Headhunters. Life and career Mason was born and grew ...

and also marks the return of the band's former drummer

Akira Jimbo , is a Japanese jazz fusion drummer, best known as the drummer for the Japanese jazz fusion band Casiopea in 3 separate stints (1980-1989, 1997-2006 and 2012-2022). Aside from his work with Casiopea, Jimbo has also participated in side projects ...

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, ...

Guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

s :

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 -

Bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...

: Additional Musicians :

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 ...

(M-2,3,4,7,8,9,10,11), Electric Percussion & Timbales (M-1,3,5,6,7,9) :

- Drums (M-1,5,6)

Production

*Sound Produced - CASIOPEA *Executive Producer - Yuzo Watanabe : *Recording Engineer - Hiroyuki Shimura, Don Murray *Assistant Engineer - Tadashi Yamaguchi, Doug Boehm *Mixing Engineer - Hiroyuki Shimura *Mastering Engineer - Mitsuo Koike : *Instruments Technician - Yasushi Horiuchi, Eisuke Sasaki : *Art Direction & Design - Satoshi Yanagisawa *Photography - Yoshihito Sasaguchi

Release history

References

External links

* 1997 albums Casiopea albums Pony Canyon albums {{1990s-jazz-album-stub