Hearty Notes

Hearty Notes is the twenty-sixth album and the first one in which all four members of Casiopea play acoustic instruments. This style is referenced on an acoustic version of their 1983 song "Lookin' Up" on their 1994 album Asian Dreamer and again on "Seasons" from their 1996 album Flowers.

Hearty Notes
Studio album by
Casiopea
ReleasedAugust 24, 1994
Recorded1994
StudioStudio Jive, Tokyo; Audio Resource, Honolulu
GenreJazz fusion
Length42:48
LabelAlfa
ProducerCasiopea
Casiopea chronology
Answers
(1994)		 Hearty Notes
(1994)		 Asian Dreamer
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Track listing
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Sweet Vision"Issei Noro4:43
2."Dazzling" (from album Photographs)Noro4:22
3."Justice"Noro4:12
4."Pleasure"Noro3:35
5."Believe Again"Noriaki Kumagai3:52
6."Distance to Paradise"Minoru Mukaiya4:29
7."Sombrero"Mukaiya3:51
8."So Long"Yoshihiro Naruse5:38
9."Magic Ray" (from album Super Flight)Noro4:19
10."Shining Voyage"Noro3:47
Total length:42:48

Personnel

Production
  • Producer – Casiopea
  • Executive Producer – Yoshiaki Mizutani
  • Audio engineer – Hiroyuki Shimura (1,3,4,5,6,7,8,10), Ross Cockle (2,9)
  • Assistant engineer – Masashi Yanagisawa (Studio Jive), Porter Miller
  • Mixing engineer – Hiroyuki Shimura
  • Mastering engineer – Tohru Kotetsu
  • Instruments technician – Yasushi Horiuchi
  • Bass technician – Yoshiki Murayama
  • Art direction and design – Shigekazu Tsujimori
  • Digital art and design – Keiko Akiyama
  • Photography – Junichi Takahashi, Hiroshi Nameta, Shigekazu Tsujimori, Keiko Akiyama
  • Remastering engineer – Kouji Suzuki (2016)

Release history
Region Date Label Format Catalog Note
Japan August 24, 1994 Alfa Records 12cmCD ALCA-5007 stereo
February 20, 2002 Village Records remastered CD VRCL-2218 DSD, LP paper jacket
March 13, 2002 VRCL-2238 DSD
May 27, 2009 Sony Music Direct MHCL-20020 DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket
February 3, 2016 Music download 1076273681 iTunes Store[2]
4582290414119 mora AAC-LC 320kbps[3]
A1003862531 Recochoku AAC 320kbps[4]
B01B5AWO0M Amazon.com[5]
B576uyr22o5gagnvbkfnsp2lwga Google Play Music
July 27, 2016 4582290418841 mora DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[6]
smj4582290418841 e-onkyo DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[7]
11197 HD-music DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[8]
4582290418834 mora FLAC 96.0 kHz/24bit[9]
A2000673650 Recochoku FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[10]
smj4582290418834 e-onkyo FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[11]
11206 HD-music FLAC 96 kHz/24bit[12]
22ccca986316dbe69595 AWA 320kbps[13]
November 10, 2016 4o1ZEcw1T1Dt2O5nMKsGx5 Spotify[14]

References
  1. Allmusic review
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