Cross Point (album)

Cross Point is the sixth album and the fifth studio album by Casiopea, recorded and released in 1981. This is the band's second album to be created and produced with Harvey Mason.^[2] Casiopea did a domestic tour in late November and December after this album, which inspired the Mint Jams concert sessions in February of the following year.

Cross Point
Studio album by Casiopea
Released	October 21, 1981
Recorded	July 4 – September 10, 1981
Studio	Studio "A", Shibaura, Tokyo
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	39:32
Label	Alfa Records ALR-28029
Producer	Shunsuke Miyazumi, Harvey Mason
Casiopea chronology
Eyes of the Mind (1981) Cross Point (1981) Mint Jams (1982)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

The album's name has a double meaning: first referring to an intersection for roadways, like on the cover art, and secondly, as it says on the LP's OBI paper strip: "The music scene has reached as new cross-point."^[3]

This is the first album fully recorded with Mukaiya's GS-1 synth, gifted to him by YAMAHA.

There's a pamphlet inside the that is a telling of the band's history, written by bassist Tetsuo Sakurai.

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Smile Again"	Issei Noro	3:59
2.	"Swear"	Issei Noro	5:22
3.	"A Sparkling Day"	Issei Noro	3:36
4.	"Span of a Dream"	Issei Noro	4:52
5.	"Domino Line"	Issei Noro	3:23
Total length:			21:12

Side B

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Galactic Funk"	Issei Noro	4:22
2.	"Sunnyside Feelin'"	Akira Jimbo	4:12
3.	"Any Moment (We'll Be One)"	Harvey Mason	5:09
4.	"Endless Vision"	Minoru Mukaiya	4:37
Total length:			18:20

Personnel

CASIOPEA are:^[4]

Issei Noro – electric guitar (YAMAHA SG-2000 & SG-1000 Fretless, KORG guitar synthesizer, Lynn Drum Computer), arrangement

Minoru Mukaiya – keyboards (Fender Rhodes, YAMAHA CP-80, GS-1, CS-30, KORG 800DV, Trident, Mini Moog, Prophet 10, Roland Jupiter-8, acoustic piano)

Tetsuo Sakurai – bass guitar (YAMAHA BB-2000)

Akira Jimbo – drums (YAMAHA YD-9000R), percussion

Eiji Urata – synthesizer programming

Production

• Producer – Shunsuke Miyazumi
• Co-Producer – Harvey Mason
• Associate producer – Satoshi Nakao
• Executive producer – Shoro Kawazoe
• Synth Programmer – Eiji Urata
• Engineers – Norio Yoshizawa
• Assistant engineers – Atsushi Saito
• Art direction – Tsuguya Inoue
• Designer – Tsuguya Inoue
• Illustrator – Thomas Bayrle / UNAC TOKYO ⓒ1981
• Coordination – Toshinao Tsukui
• Remastering engineer – Kouji Suzuki (2016)

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	October 21, 1981	Alfa Records	stereo 30cmLP	ALR-28029	stereo
	November 25, 1984		12cmCD	38XA-24
	January 25, 1987			32XA-118
	March 21, 1992			ALCA-276
	July 27, 1994			ALCA-9006
	July 23, 1998			ALCA-9201
	December 19, 2001	Village Records	remastered 12cmCD	VRCL-2206	DSD, LP paper jacket
	January 17, 2002			VRCL-2226	DSD
	May 27, 2009	Sony Music Direct		MHCL-20008	DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket
	February 3, 2016		Music download	1076210088	iTunes Store[5]
				4582290413990	mora AAC-LC 320 kbps[6]
				A1003862405	Recochoku AAC 128/320 kbps[7]
				B01B5ARSU8	Amazon.com[8]
				Bujop27brq4j4v5hxp7vxektghq	Google Play Music[9]
	July 27, 2016			4542696007612	mora DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[10]
				smj4542696007612	e-onkyo DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[11]
				11179	HD-music DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[12]
				4582290418933	mora FLAC 96.0 kHz/24bit[13]
				A1004668216	Recochoku FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[14]
				smj4582290418933	e-onkyo FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[15]
				11177	HD-music FLAC 96 kHz/24bit[16]
				d9a46ea5b513b56aa983	AWA 320kbps[17]
	November 10, 2016			5ACZZnH09oCt2ZZwazQWlf	Spotify[18]

See also

• 1981 in Japanese music

External links

• CASIOPEA – Cross Point at Discogs
• Cross Point at MusicBrainz
• Thomas Bayrle's art

References

1. Allmusic review
2. https://reuprecordz.com/products/casiopea-cross-point-1982
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