Signal (album)

Signal is the 40th album by jazz fusion group Casiopea and their first collaborative studio album with Synchronized DNA, a drum duo comprising former and current Casiopea member Akira Jimbo and former T-Square drummer Hiroyuki Noritake. The album was recorded and released in 2005. Issei Noro put Casiopea on hiatus in the year after, but reactivated the group with new keyboardist Kiyomi Otaka taking the place of Minoru Mukaiya in 2012.

Signal
Studio album by Casiopea
Released	December 21, 2005
Recorded	Land Mark Studio, Yokohama, September, 2005
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	55:38
Label	Geneon Entertainment GNCL-1041
Producer	Casiopea
Casiopea chronology
GIG25 (2005) Signal (2005)

Track listing

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Awaken"	Issei Noro	6:07
2.	"Mist"	Minoru Mukaiya	5:09
3.	"Kokoro-CK"	Yoshihiro Naruse	4:32
4.	"Will You Love Me Tomorrow"	Akira Jimbo	5:18
5.	"Escalation"	Issei Noro	4:40
6.	"Asobi Ni Turetette"	Yoshihiro Naruse	4:18
7.	"Life Long Serenade"	Issei Noro	6:07
8.	"Pity"	Yoshihiro Naruse	3:54
9.	"Ardent"	Minoru Mukaiya	3:41
10.	"Past And Future"	Issei Noro	11:47
Total length:			55:38

Past And Future's songs

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Dawn"	Issei Noro	2:15
2.	"Strain"	Issei Noro	3:49
3.	"Sorrow"	Issei Noro	0:45
4.	"Tested"	Issei Noro	2:37
5.	"Mentality"	Issei Noro	4:45
6.	"Unlimited"	Issei Noro	1:31
Total length:			11:47

Personnel

CASIOPEA are:

Issei Noro - guitars, voice on 3

Minoru Mukaiya - keyboards

Yoshihiro Naruse - bass, programming on 3, 6, 8, percussion on 6, 8, timbales on 3, voice on 3

Synchronized DNA are:

Akira Jimbo - drums (left), programming on 4

Hiroyuki Noritake - drums (right)

Note that on this particular album, Akira Jimbo's drums are hard-panned to the left speaker/headphone and Hiroyuki Noritake's drums are hard-panned to the right one.

Production

• Produced - CASIOPEA
• Directed - Issei Noro
• Supervisor - Yoshinori Kumazawa, Akihiro Kawamura
• Recording & Mixing Engineer - Yuji Kuraishi
• Recorded at Landmark Studio, and Studio Jive
• Mixed at Studio Jive
• Assistant engineer – Shinichi Naitoh, Makoto Okawa
• Mastering engineer – Shigeo Miyamoto
• Mastered at FLAIR
• Manipulator & Technician - Yasushi Horiuchi
• Drums Technician - Mitsutake Edakawa, Hajime Ishizuka, Yuhei Yamazaki
• Label Manager - Hiroharu Sato
• A&R - Go Kojima
• A&R Assistant - Ayako Maruyama, Kumiko Sato
• Artist Management - Takashi E-noway Miho Kunishima
• Art Direction & Design - Ken Narikawa
• Photograph - Chikako Ozawa at Landmark Studio
• Art Co-ordination - Misaki Shimamura, Masaru Sato

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	December 21, 2005	Geneon Entertainment	12cmCD	GNCL-1041

References

External links

• CASIOPEA – Signal at Discogs