Platinum (Casiopea album) explained

Platinum
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Casiopea
Border:	yes
Released:	September 1, 1987
Recorded:	at SOUNDTRACK, New York City . from June 11 to June 23, 1987. at STUDIO SOUND, Los Angeles June 23, 1987
Genre:	Jazz fusion
Label:	Polydor K.K. / AURA 28MX-2544
Producer:	Issei Noro, Shunsuke Miyazumi
Prev Title:	Casiopea Perfect Live II
Prev Year:	1987
Next Title:	Euphony
Next Year:	1988

Platinum is the 17th album released by the jazz fusion group Casiopea in 1987.The album featured a cover of "Bridge Over Troubled Water"--a song originally written by Paul Simon.

Track listing

CD(UPCY-6538) Track listing

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Electric guitar (YAMAHA ISSEI MODEL, FRETLESS GUITAR), Acoustic guitar (D'AGOSTINO GUITAR)

Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards (YAMAHA DX-7, KX-88, TX-816, QX-1, KORG DSS-1, DSM-1, SG-1, ROLAND D-50, SBX-80 & Acoustic Piano)

Tetsuo Sakurai - Electric Bass (YAMAHA TETSUO MODEL, BB-5000, Kramer Electric Bass)

Akira Jimbo - Drums (YAMAHA YD-9000 Series, PTT-1, PMC-1, RX-5, AKAI S-900, ZILDJAN CYMBALS, SIMMONS SDS-V)

Additional Musicians

Yukou Kusunoki - Lead Vocal on A2, B1, B5, C9
Djavan - Vocal on A4
Background Vocal on A2, A5, B1 - Cedric Samson, Dina Miller, Amanda Blue, Issei Noro, Yukoh Kusunoki
Background Vocal on A1 - Issei Noro, Yukoh Kusunoki
Background Vocal on B4 - Issei Noro, Tetsuo Sakurai, Minoru Mukaiya, Yukoh Kusunoki
Steve Thornton - Latin Percussion on A3, B3, B5
Earl Gardner - Trumpet on A5, B5
Alex Foster - Alto sax on A5, B5
Lenny Pickett - Tenor sax, Baritone sax on A5, B5
Horns Arrangements - Issei Noro, Lenny Pickett
Additional Synthesizer & Programing on B1 - Andy Heermans

Production

Producer - Issei Noro, Shunsuke Miyazumi
Engineer - Andy Heermans, Les Brockman
Assistant Engineers - Mark Partis, Bryan Rutter
Mixing engineer - Andy Heermans

Executive producer - Katsuki Hagiwara, Shinichi Toyama
Production management - Masato Arai
Management - Osamu Takagi, Fumiaki Takahashi, Katsuhiro Maruichi

Art Direction Design and Illustration - Mitsuo Katsui
Visual Supervisor - Masahiro Tomioka, Miyuki Sawa

Release history

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Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	September 1, 1987	Polydor K.K. / AURA	30cmLP	28MX-2544	stereo
	September 1, 1987		12cmCD	H33P-20176
	July 1, 1992		12cmCD	POCH-1221
	June 24, 2009	Universal Music LLC / AURA	remastered SHM-CD	UPCY-6538
	June 24, 2017	Universal Music LLC / AURA	remastered SHM-CD	UPCY-9700	J-FUSION 40th