Material (Casiopea album)

Material
Studio album by Casiopea
Released	May 19, 1999
Recorded	at Studio Jive, Tokyo
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	44:15
Label	Pony Canyon PCCR-00304
Producer	Casiopea
Casiopea chronology
Be (1998) Material (1999) 20th (2000)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Material is the 25th studio album released by the jazz fusion group Casiopea in 1999.

Track listing

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Freak Jack"	Issei Noro	4:06
2.	"Down South"	Akira Jimbo	3:54
3.	"Twinkle Visions"	Issei Noro	3:56
4.	"Naturally"	Issei Noro	4:49
5.	"The Night In Blue"	Issei Noro	4:39
6.	"Longing"	Issei Noro	4:42
7.	"Precious Joy"	Yoshihiro Naruse	5:09
8.	"Lucky Stars"	Minoru Mukaiya	4:12
9.	"Promenade"	Minoru Mukaiya	4:24
10.	"Day And Night"	Issei Noro	4:24
11.	"City Talk"	Issei Noro	5:00

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Guitars, Synthesizer, Voice

Minoru Mukaiya - keyboards

Yoshihiro Naruse - Bass, Bass Synthesizer

Supported

Akira Jimbo - drums, Hip Gig (M-2,7)

Additional Musicians

Takahiro Kaneko - Tenor Saxophone (M-1,2,11)

Futoshi Kobayashi - Trumpet (M-1,2,11)

Yasushi Horicuchi & CASIOPEA - Manipulation of Synthesizer & Sequencer

Production

• Sound Produced - CASIOPEA

• Recording & Mixing Engineer - Hiroyuki Shimura
• Assistant Engineer - Masashi Yanagisawa, Tadashi Yamaguchi
• Mastering Engineer - Mitsukazu Tanaka

• Instruments Technician - Yasushi Horiuchi, Eisuke Sasaki, Satoshi Tsuchiya

• Art Direction & Design - Satoshi Yanagisawa
• Photography - Masumi Harada, Satoshi Yanagisawa
• Hair & Make up - Nobuyuki Kohgo

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	May 19, 1999[2]	Pony Canyon	CD	PCCR-00304
Japan	November 20, 2008[2]	Pony Canyon	remastered CD, digital download	PCCR-50014	DSD, HQCD

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ ^{a b} "Yahoo!Music Casiopea MATERIAL". Yahoo!Music. Yahoo Japan Corporation. http://music.yahoo.co.jp/shop/c/10/pccr00304. Retrieved 2009-08-15.