Super Flight

Super Flight is the second studio album by Japanese jazz fusion band Casiopea, released via Alfa Records on November 25, 1979. Recording took place at Studio A in Shibaura, Tokyo from August to October of that year. The album cover arts depicts a blimp with "Casiopea" written on the side flying during a sunset near Lower Manhattan, New York.

Super Flight
Studio album by Casiopea
Released	November 25, 1979
Recorded	1979
Studio	Studio A, Tokyo
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	39:06
Label	Alfa Records
Producer	Shunsuke Miyazumi Shinji Sawada
Casiopea chronology
Casiopea (1979) Super Flight (1979) Thunder Live (1980)
Singles from Super Flight
"I Love New York / Magic Ray" Released: November 15, 1979

Description

Super Flight is the first Casiopea release to feature tracks not written by Issei Noro, with "I Love New York", written by Steve Karmen, and "Sailing Alone", written by bassist Tetsuo Sakurai.

This album release right before a big change in Casiopea: It was Casiopea's last release with drummer Takashi Sasaki, who was replaced by Akira Jimbo later that year. It was also the last Casiopea release of the 70s.

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Take Me"	Issei Noro	4:19
2.	"Flying"	Issei Noro	4:51
3.	"Dune"	Issei Noro	4:51
4.	"Asayake" (Sunrise)	Issei Noro	5:05
Total length:			19:06

Side B

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"I Love New York"	Steve Karmen	4:08
2.	"Sailing Alone"	Tetsuo Sakurai	4:41
3.	"Orion"	Issei Noro	3:20
4.	"Magic Ray"	Issei Noro	4:42
5.	"Mighty Mouse"	Issei Noro	3:09
Total length:			20:00

Credits and personnel

Recorded and mixed at Studio "A", Shibaura, Tokyo, August 27 – October 13, 1979

Band Members

CASIOPEA are

• Issei Noro – electric guitar (Yamaha SG-2000, fretless guitar, arrangements
• Minoru Mukaiya – Fender Rhodes electric piano, acoustic piano, organ (with pedal bass), various synthesizers, vocoder, string arrangement on "Take Me"
• Tetsuo Sakurai – bass guitar (Fender Jazz Bass, Yamaha BB-2000 Fretless Bass)
• Takashi Sasaki – drums

Session Musicians Kanya Kazama – backup drums Penny (Toshitaro & Riverside) – percussion Debrah Correll – vocals on "Olion" Jun Fukamachi – conductor, horn arrangement on "Mighty Mouse" Koji Hatori – trumpet Toshio Araki – trumpet Eiji Arai – trombone Jake H. Conception – alto saxophone Takeru Maruaoka – tenor saxophone Shunzo Sunahara – baritone saxophone Tomato Strings – strings

Production and design

Kunihiko Murai – executive producer Syoro Kawazoe – executive producer Shunsuke Miyazumi – producer Shinji Sawada – producer Norio Yoshizawa – recording, mixing engineer

Yasuhiko Terada – assistant engineer Alphabet – art direction, design Toshikuni Okubo – illustrator Jun Takemura – liner notes Kouji Suzuki – remastering engineer (2016)

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	November 25, 1979	Alfa Records	30cmLP	ALR-6029	stereo
	December 21, 1986		12cmCD	32XA-105
	March 21, 1992			ALCA-272
	June 29, 1994			ALCA-9002
	July 23, 1998			ALCA-9197
	May 31, 2000	Toshiba EMI	Remastered 12cmCD	TOCT-24365	LP paper jacket
	December 19, 2001	Village Records		VRCL-2202	DSD, LP paper jacket
	January 17, 2002			VRCL-2222	DSD
	May 27, 2009	Sony Music Direct		MHCL-20004	DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket
	February 3, 2016		Music download	1076209200	iTunes Store[1]
				4582290413952	mora AAC-LC 320 kbit/s[2]
				A1003862375	Recochoku AAC 128/320 kbit/s[3]
				B01B5ARGEQ	Amazon.com[4]
				B5rvkgh2auomk6punbeeczvmrom	Google Play Music[5]
	July 27, 2016			4582290418667	mora DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[6]
				smj4582290418667	e-onkyo DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[7]
				11182	HD-music DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[8]
				4582290418650	mora FLAC 96.0 kHz/24bit[9]
				A1004668226	Recochoku FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[10]
				smj4582290418650	e-onkyo FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[11]
				11171	HD-music FLAC 96 kHz/24bit[12]
				9508768a942aed540379	AWA 320kbit/s[13]
	November 10, 2016			3qonmqz7cdFfMmE2iS37Rb	Spotify[14]

External links

• CASIOPEA – Super Flight at Discogs
• Super Flight at MusicBrainz

References

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