The Party (Casiopea album) explained

The Party AUDIO STACK
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Casiopea
Border:	yes
Released:	June 25, 1990
Recorded:	April 1990
Studio:	Mitaka studio, Tokyo
Genre:	Jazz fusion
Label:	Pioneer LDC PICL-1006
Producer:	Casiopea
Prev Title:	Casiopea World Live '88
Prev Year:	1988
Next Title:	Full Colors
Next Year:	1991

The Party AUDIO STACK (The Party) is the 20th album by Japanese jazz fusion band Casiopea. In addition, the video was released simultaneously as The Party VISUAL STACK on June 25, 1990 with LaserDisc and VHS. Also, when we sent the application tickets attached to "AUDIO STACK" and "VISUAL STACK", we got The Party EXTRA STACK (VHS LPR-017) by lottery.
This album marked the joining of Yoshihiro Naruse (bass) and Masaaki Hiyama (drums) to the band. This is also Casiopea's 20th overall album.

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Electric guitar, Acoustic guitar

Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards

Yoshihiro Naruse - Electric Bass

Masaaki Hiyama - Drums

Production

• Sound producer – Casiopea
• Project Producer – Taketsune Kubo
• Recording & mixing engineers – Koji Sugimori
• Assistant engineers – Masashi Kudo, Yuji Kuraishi
• Synclavier Operator – Kenji Takizawa
• Mastering Engineers – Mitsuharu Kobayashi
• Art director – Mitsuaki Takeda
• Cover design – Mayumi Fujimori
• Photograph – Toshtaka Niwa

Release history of AUDIO STACK

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	June 25, 1990	Pioneer LDC	12cmCD	PICL-1006	stereo
			Cassette	PITL-1006
	July 26, 2006	Geneon Entertainment	12cmCD	GNCL-1076

References

• 『BAND SCORE CASIOPEA THE PARTY』August 20, 1990 Rittor Music, Inc.

The Party VISUAL STACK

The Party VISUAL STACK
Type:	video
Artist:	Casiopea
Released:	June 25, 1990
Recorded:	April 1990
Studio:	Mitaka studio, Tokyo
Genre:	Jazz fusion
Label:	Pioneer LDC PILL-5002
Producer:	Takatsune Kudo
Prev Title:	JOIA
Prev Year:	1988
Next Title:	Full Colors
Next Year:	1991

The Party VISUAL STACK (The Party) is the video work by Japanese jazz fusion band Casiopea on June 25, 1990 with LaserDisc and VHS. At the same time, album The Party AUDIO STACK was also released. Also, when we sent the application tickets attached to "AUDIO STACK" and "VISUAL STACK", we got The Party EXTRA STACK (VHS LPR-017) by lottery.
This album marked the joining of Yoshihiro Naruse (bass) and Masaaki Hiyama (drums) to the band.

Track listing of VISUAL STACK (DVD GNBL-1006)

(*) 15 is bonus truck of DVD GNBL-1006.

Track listing of EXTRA STACK (VHS LPR-017)

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Electric guitar, Acoustic guitar

Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards

Yoshihiro Naruse - Electric Bass

Masaaki Hiyama - Drums

DANCERS

Tomomi Imai

Yoshiko Uno

Kumiko Sawada

Yukari Nakamoto

Chieko Noguchi

Andy Blankenbuehler

Izumi Aochi

Shigeo Kathy

Nobuaki Hagino

Kazushi Yabe

Production

• Director – Hideki Tsushima (PIPCO)
• Dance director – Rocky
• Assistant director – Masatoshi Sato, Ryuji Sugiyama
• Director of Photography - Joji Ide
• Cameraman - Shigeru Mikoshiba, Hiro Ito, Shinichi Chiba, Takashi Suga, Toshihiro Ota
• Camera Assistant - Kazuya Yamagata, keiji Hashimoto, Yumiko Yamagata, Takuko Nishiyama, Akinori Shigeeda, Tatsuo Tanaka, Kenji Shibata, Toru Suzuki, Naoki Tokugawa
• Choreographer - Koji Otsuka, Kamori Kanaya
• Choreograph Assistant - Naomi Shibata, Yumiko Tsukuda
• Lighting director – Hiroyuki Matsumoto
• Lighting Designer - Mitsutaka Gotoh
• Syncrolite Operator – Yoshikazu Yamada
• Sub Operator – Taro Kondo
• Syncrolite Engineer - Hideyuki Asada
• Lighting Assistant - Akira Hasegawa, Masayuki Eto, Kimiko Asada, Masahiro Kobayashi, Takashi Yashita, Hirokazu Uchida, Kanae Nonaka, Hiroshi Inumaki, Chie Okawa, Mina Ishigaki, Masakazu Sasaki
• Production designer – Yoshitoshi Egashira
• Art director – Tadahiko Komiyama
• Special Effect - Toshiyuki Hatanaka
• Assistant Engineer - Masashi Kudo, Yuji Kuraishi, Tetsuo Saito, Takeshi Higuchi, Takeshi Sasaki, Shanty Kobayashi, Hiroto Tsuruta, Shigeru Takagi, Kazumi Ichinose
• P.A. Engineer - Tsutomu Ueda
• Assistant Engineer - Jiro Arita
• Synclavier Engineer - Kenji Takizawa, David Fromm, Steven Fromm, Ikuo Honma
• Rail & Crane System - Tatsumi Kuramochi, Susumu Nanba, Yujiro Takeda, Tsutomu Abe, Shinji Arima, Norio Ninomiya, Mikio Sakai, Futoshi Yokobori, Seiji Takaku, Toshiya Tsurumi, Kenshiro Fujiwara, Takatori Mukai
• Hair & Make up – Hisako Oguri
• FV Engineer - Yoshiki Nishina
• Editor - N・A・O
• M.A. Mixer - Takumi Murayama
• Sound Effect - Nori Miyata
• Art designer – Mitsuaki Takeda
• Cover Designer - Mayumi Fujimori
• Assistant Producer - Tadashi Nomura
• Chief Manager - Kazuaki Negishi
• Manager - Takeshi Inoue
• Technicians - Shigeo Matsuyama, Yasushi Horiuchi, Yoshitsugu Nozawa
• Co-Producer - Shunsuke Goto (TAMCO)
• Producer - Takatsune Kudo (PIONEER LDC)

Release history of VISUAL STACK

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	June 25, 1990	Pioneer LDC	LaserDisc	PILL-5002	NTSC, DigitalAUDIO
			VHS	PIVL-5002
	January 24, 2001		DVD	PIBL-1009	4.3, PCM, Region codes 2
	June 23, 2004	Geneon Entertainment		GNBL-1006	4.3, PCM, Dolby Digital, 5.1ch Surround sound

External links

• LasorDisc Database Cassiopeia: The Party VISUAL STACK