Platinum (Casiopea album)
# Platinum (Casiopea album)

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Platinum is the 17th album released by the jazz fusion group Casiopea in 1987. The album featured a cover of "Bridge Over Troubled Water"--a song originally written by Paul Simon.

## Personnel

CASIOPEA are

    Issei Noro - Electric guitar (YAMAHA ISSEI MODEL, FRETLESS GUITAR), Acoustic guitar (D'AGOSTINO GUITAR)
    Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards (YAMAHA DX-7, KX-88, TX-816, QX-1, KORG DSS-1, DSM-1, SG-1, ROLAND D-50, SBX-80 & Acoustic Piano)
    Tetsuo Sakurai - Electric Bass (YAMAHA TETSUO MODEL, BB-5000, Kramer Electric Bass)
    Akira Jimbo - Drums (YAMAHA YD-9000 Series, PTT-1, PMC-1, RX-5, AKAI S-900, ZILDJAN CYMBALS, SIMMONS SDS-V)

Additional Musicians

* Yukou Kusunoki - Lead Vocal on A2, B1, B5, C9
* Djavan - Vocal on A4
* Background Vocal on A2, A5, B1 - Cedric Samson, Dina Miller, Amanda Blue, Issei Noro, Yukoh Kusunoki
* Background Vocal on A1 - Issei Noro, Yukoh Kusunoki
* Background Vocal on B4 - Issei Noro, Tetsuo Sakurai, Minoru Mukaiya, Yukoh Kusunoki
* Steve Thornton - Latin Percussion on A3, B3, B5
* Earl Gardner - Trumpet on A5, B5
* Alex Foster - Alto sax on A5, B5
* Lenny Pickett - Tenor sax, Baritone sax on A5, B5
* Horns Arrangements - Issei Noro, Lenny Pickett
* Additional Synthesizer & Programing on B1 - Andy Heermans

## Production

* Producer - Issei Noro, Shunsuke Miyazumi
* Engineer - Andy Heermans, Les Brockman
* Assistant Engineers - Mark Partis, Bryan Rutter
* Mixing engineer - Andy Heermans
* Executive producer - Katsuki Hagiwara, Shinichi Toyama
* Production management - Masato Arai
* Management - Osamu Takagi, Fumiaki Takahashi, Katsuhiro Maruichi
* Art Direction Design and Illustration - Mitsuo Katsui
* Visual Supervisor - Masahiro Tomioka, Miyuki Sawa

## Release history

| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog | Note |
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| Japan | September 1, 1987 | Polydor K.K. / AURA | 30cmLP | 28MX-2544 | stereo |
| Japan | September 1, 1987 | Polydor K.K. / AURA | 12cmCD | H33P-20176 | |
| Japan | July 1, 1992 | Polydor K.K. / AURA | 12cmCD | POCH-1221 | |
| Japan | June 24, 2009 | Universal Music LLC / AURA | remastered SHM-CD | UPCY-6538 | |
| Japan | June 24, 2017 | Universal Music LLC / AURA | remastered SHM-CD | UPCY-9700 | J-FUSION 40th |
