# Casiopea World Live '88

Casiopea World Live '88 is the fifth live album released by the jazz fusion group Casiopea in 1988. It consists of recordings of some of their songs played in concert during Casiopea's World Tour in 1988 that promoted their previous album, Euphony. It is also a collaboration album with two Japanese horn sections from two other bands, the brass section of Spectrum and the brass section of The Tops. Additionally, it is the first album Spectrum recorded since their breakup in 1981, and is their penultimate album (their last album after they broke up was released in 1991 and was a remix compilation album of songs that were hits in Japan from the late 1970s). Lead trumpeter/vocalist of the band, Ichiro Nitta, was also the producer of The Tops at the time this album was released. The Tops released one more album, Soul Children, the following year, before they disbanded in 1991. That same year, Spectrum released their Super Remix album. This was also the last album to feature Tetsuo Sakurai on bass and Akira Jimbo on drums (during his run as a full-time member), who both left to form the band Jimsaku.

## Track listing
### CD(POCH-1223, UPCY-6540) Track listing

12, 13 bonus truck are not included in H33P-20285.

## Personnel

Casiopea are
* Issei Noro - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
* Minoru Mukaiya - keyboards
* Tetsuo Sakurai - 6 string electric bass
* Akira Jimbo - drums

### Guest Musicians

* Horn Arrangement - Ichiro Nitta (LP:A1, B5)(CD:1,10,11,12,13)
Horn Spectrum are
* Ichiro Nitta - trumpet
* Junichi Kanezaki - trumpet
* Toshiyuki Yoshida - trombone
Tops Horns are
* Shigeru Terauchi - trumpet
* Junichi Kawasaki - trumpet
* Takashi Kudo - trombone
* Masahiro Kuroishi - tenor saxophone

## Production

* Producer - Issei Noro
* Executive producer - Katsuki Hagiwara, Shinichi Toyama
Recorded on
    July 9th (Projeto Sp. São Paulo, Brazil) [LP:A3, A4] [CD:3,4]
    August 23rd (World Expo 88, Brisbane, Australia) [LP:A5] [CD:5]
    August 27th (Yomiuriland Open Theater East, Tokyo, Japan) [LP:A1,A2,B5] [CD:1,2,10,11,12,13]
    September 10th (Auditorio National, Mexico City, Mexico) [LP:B1,B2] [CD:6,7]
    September 13th (Roxy, Los Angeles, U.S.A.) [LP:B3,B4] [CD:8,9]
* Recording engineers - Roberto Marques (Brazil), Steve Pyle (Australia), Bob Hodas (U.S.A.), Tsutomu Ueda (Mexico), and Akitsugu Doi (Tokyo)
* Mixing engineer - Akitsugu Doi, Tutomu Ueda
* Assistant engineer - Masashi Kudo
* Tour supervisor - Shinichi Toyama
* Top Producer - Noboru Miura
* Project co-ordinator - Masato Arai
* Tour management - Fumiaki Takahashi
* Tour crew - Ichiro Gohara, Tsutomu Ueda, Katsuhiro Maruichi, Kazumasa Mitsui, Hideji Uekusa, Hisashi Aratake.
* Art director - Yoshiyuki Menjoh
* Designer - Yuji Sugita
* Photograph - Nakao Wada, Kazumi Okuma, Eiryo Asada
* Hair and makeup - Kaoru Chiba

## Release history

| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog | Note |
| Japan | November 25, 1988 | Polydor K.K. / AURA | 30cmLP | 28MX-2555 | stereo |
| Japan | November 25, 1988 | Polydor K.K. / AURA | 12cmCD | H33P-20285 | |
| Japan | July 1, 1992 | Polydor K.K. / AURA | 12cmCD | POCH-1223 | |
| Japan | June 24, 2009 | Universal Music LLC / AURA | remastered SHM-CD | UPCY-6540 | |
| Japan | June 24, 2017 | Universal Music LLC / AURA | remastered SHM-CD | UPCY-9702 | J-FUSION 40th |