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4×4 - FOUR BY FOUR
4×4 - FOUR BY FOUR
Studio album by Casiopea
Released	December 16, 1982
Recorded	October 12–29, 1982
Studio	Studio "A", Shibaura, Tokyo
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	30:08
Label	Alfa Records; ALR-28045
Producer	Shunsuke Miyazumi
Casiopea chronology

4×4 - FOUR BY FOUR is the eighth album and sixth studio album by Casiopea recorded and released in 1982. Lee Ritenour, Harvey Mason, Nathan East, and Don Grusin participated in the recording of this album.

Lee Ritenour, Harvey Mason and Nathan East, along with pianist Bob James, rather than Don Grusin, went on to become the Original members of Fourplay in 1991.^[1]

Track listing

Side A
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Mid-Manhattan"	Akira Jimbo	4:37
2.	"Pavane -Pour Une Infante Dẻfunte-"	Maurice Ravel	5:32
3.	"Transatlantic"	Lee Ritenour	5:37
Total length:			15:46

Side B
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Galactic Funk"	Issei Noro	6:04
2.	"Kauai"	Lee Ritenour	3:51
3.	"Chandelier"	Issei Noro	4:27
Total length:			14:22

Personnel

Issei Noro – Electric guitar (YAMAHA SG-2000, SG-1000 Fretless), Acoustic guitar (on B2), Percussion (on A2, A3, B3)
Lee Ritenour – Electric guitar (Ibanez, Fender Stratocaster, Ovation Nylon Strings), Classical guitar (on A2), Acoustic Guitar (on B2)

Minoru Mukaiya – Keyboards (YAMAHA GS-1, CS-70M, CP-35, Oberheim OB-Xa, Moog the SOURCE)
Don Grusin – Keyboards (Acoustic Piano (on A2), YAMAHA CP-80 (on A1, B1), Oberheim OB-Xa (on A2, B2), Rhodes (on A3, B3))

Tetsuo Sakurai – Electric Bass (YAMAHA BB-2000 Milk Bass) (on A2, B1, B3), Percussion (on B3)
Nathan East – Electric Bass (YAMAHA BB-2000, Roland GR-33B) (on A1, A3, B1, B2)

Akira Jimbo – drums (YAMAHA YD-9000R) (except on B3), Percussion (on A3, B2, B3)
Harvey Mason – drums (Premier Sound Wave Custom) (on A1, B1, B3), Marimba (on A2, B2)

Production

Producer – Shunsuke Miyazumi
Associate Producer – Satoshi Nakao
Recording and Mixing Engineer – Norio Yoshizawa, Issei Noro
Assistant Engineer – Atsushi Saito, Shinji Miyoshi
Mastering Engineer – Osamu Shimoju
Art Direction and Design – Nao Magami, Shinya "SHAR" Asami
Illustration – Shinya "SHAR" Asami
Remastering engineer – Kouji Suzuki (2016)

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	December 16, 1982	Alfa Records	stereo LP	ALR-28045	30 cm
	February 22, 1984		12cm CD	38XA-10
	January 25, 1987			32XA-114
	March 21, 1992			ALCA-277
	July 27, 1994			ALCA-9008
	July 23, 1998			ALCA-9203
	January 23, 2002	Village Records	remastered CD	VRCL-2208	DSD, LP paper jacket
	February 14, 2002	Village Records		VRCL-2228	DSD
	May 27, 2009	Sony Music Direct		MHCL-20010	DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket
	February 3, 2016		Music download	1076210150	iTunes Store^[2]
				4582290414010	mora AAC-LC 320 kbit/s^[3]
				A1003862359	Recochoku AAC 128/320 kbps^[4]
				B01B5ATFHW	Amazon.com^[5]
				Bfvjwafaq7xj3kr2i2jux33er4a	Google Play Music^[6]
	July 27, 2016			4582290418889	mora DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit^[7]
				smj4582290418889	e-onkyo DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit^[8]
				11186	HD-music DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit^[9]
				4582290418872	mora FLAC 96.0 kHz/24bit^[10]
				A2000673633	Recochoku FLAC 96 kHz 24bit^[11]
				smj4582290418872	e-onkyo FLAC 96 kHz 24bit^[12]
				11175	HD-music FLAC 96 kHz/24bit^[13]
				3ab0068bae92d7262085	AWA 320kbps^[14]
	November 10, 2016			1FDJljnanAoqWavDDqrR6O	Spotify^[15]

External links

CASIOPEA – 4x4 at Discogs
4x4 at MusicBrainz

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