Super Flight
Super Flight is the second studio album by Japanese jazz fusion band Casiopea, released on November 25, 1979 by Alfa Records. Recording took place at Studio A in Shibaura, Tokyo from August to October of that year. The cover art depicts a blimp with "Casiopea" written on the side flying during a sunset near Lower Manhattan, New York.
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. It was also the final album to feature drummer Takashi Sasaki, who was replaced by Akira Jimbo later that year.Track listing
Credits and personnel
;Band Members- Issei Noro – electric guitar |organ], various synthesizers, vocoder, string arrangement on "Take Me"
- Tetsuo Sakurai – bass guitar
- Takashi Sasaki – drums
- Kanya Kazama – backup drums
- Penny – 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
- 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
Release history