''Rockoon'' is the fourth studio album by Japanese
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 ...
band
T-Square (then known as The Square). It was released on April 1, 1980.
Takeshi Itoh (saxophone player) had begun to use the Lyricon (a Woodwind Synthesizer) in their albums from 1980 until 1987. He switched to Yamaha WX11 and finally to AKAI EWIs in 1988 and has since been using EWIs as a secondary wind instrument.
Track listing
Personnel
*Masahiro Andoh – guitars
*Takeshi Itoh –
alto saxophone
The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgians, Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E♭ ( ...
, flute,
Lyricon
The Lyricon is an electronic wind instrument, the first wind controller to be constructed.
Invented by Bill Bernardi (and co-engineered by Roger Noble and with the late Lyricon performer Chuck GreenbergIngham (1998) p.184) of Shadowfax, file ...
and
vocoder
A vocoder (, a portmanteau of ''vo''ice and en''coder'') is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation.
The vocoder wa ...
*Daisaku Kume – keyboards and synthesizer arrangements
*Yuhji Nakamura – bass guitar and
Moog bass
*Jun Aoyama – drums
*Kiyohiko Semba – percussion and vocals
*Masato Kohara – vocals on "Really Love", "Come Back", and "It's Happening Again"
See also
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1980 in Japanese music
References
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T-Square (band) albums
1980 albums
1980 in Japanese music