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4x4 (Casiopea album)

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Released
  
December 16, 1982

Producer
  
Shunsuke Miyazumi

Artist
  
Casiopea

Label
  
Alfa Records

Length
  
30:25

4x4 (1982)
  
Photographs (1983)

Release date
  
1982

Genre
  
Jazz fusion

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Recorded
  
from October 12 to 29, 1982

Studio
  
Studio "A", Shibaura, Tokyo

Similar
  
Cross Point, Jive Jive, Sun Sun, The Soundgraphy, Down Upbeat

4×4 FOUR BY FOUR is the eighth album by Casiopea recorded and released in 1982. Lee Ritenour, Harvey Mason, Nathan East, and Don Grusin participated in the recording of this album.

Contents

Lee Ritenour, Harvey Mason and Nathan East, along with pianist Bob James, rather than Don Grusin, went on to become the Original members of Fourplay in 1991.

Personnel

  • Issei Noro – Electric guitar (YAMAHA SG-2000, SG-1000 Fretless), Acoustic guitar (on B2), Percussion (on A2, A3, B3)
  • Lee Ritenour – Electric guitar (Ibanez, Fender Stratocaster, Ovation Nylon Strings), Classical guitar (on A2), Acoustic Guitar (on B2)
  • Minoru Mukaiya – Keyboards (YAMAHA GS-1, CS-70M, CP-35, Oberheim OB-Xa, Moog the SOURCE)
  • Don Grusin – Keyboards (Acoustic Piano (on A2), YAMAHA CP-80 (on A1, B1), Oberheim OB-Xa (on A2, B2), Rhodes (on A3, B3))
  • Tetsuo Sakurai – Electric Bass (YAMAHA BB-2000 Milk Bass) (on A2、B1、B3), Percussion (on B3)
  • Nathan East – Electric Bass (YAMAHA BB-2000, Roland GR-33B) (on A1、A3、B1、B2)
  • Akira Jimbo – drums (YAMAHA YD-9000R), Percussion (on A3, B2, B3)
  • Harvey Mason – drums (Premier Sound Wave Custom) (on A1、B1、B3), Marimba (on A2、B2)

    • Production

  • Producer – Shunsuke Miyazumi
  • Associate Producer – Satoshi Nakao
  • Recording and Mixing Engineer – Norio Yoshizawa
  • Assistant Engineer – Atsushi Saito, Shinji Miyoshi
  • Mastering Engineer – Osamu Shimoju
  • Mixed – Norio Yoshizawa, Issei Noro
  • Art Direction and Design – Nao Magami, Shinya "SHAR" Asami
  • Illustration - Shinya "SHAR" Asami
  • Remastering engineer - Kouji Suzuki (2016)

    • Songs

    1Mid-Manhattan4:42
    2Pavane -Pour Une Infante Dẻfunte5:33
    3Transatlantic5:40

    References

    4x4 (Casiopea album) Wikipedia
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