Tracklist

Suite The Galaxy Express 999
A1	–ジ・アンドロメダ*	Taking Off!
A2	–ジ・アンドロメダ*	The Galaxy Express 999
Swingin' Steam
B1	–スティーム・エンジン・カルテット*	Song Of Calliope
B2	–スティーム・エンジン・カルテット*	Kaleidoscope Special
B3	–スティーム・エンジン・カルテット*	Highland Express
B4	–スティーム・エンジン・カルテット*	Take The Samba Train

Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – Toshiba EMI Ltd

Credits

• Arranged By – GAM (tracks: A1, 2)
• Arranged By, Piano – 八城一夫* (tracks: B1, 2, 3, 4)
• Bass – 柴田恒雄* (tracks: B1, 2, 3, 4)
• Drum – ジミー竹内* (tracks: B1, 2, 3, 4)
• Engineer, Remix – 河田為雄*
• Mastered By – 竹内昭五*
• Producer – 高橋英昭*

Notes

Recorded at Toshiba EMI Studio 28th Sep. / 11th Oct. 1978
Remixed at Toshiba EMI TD Room from 3th to 23th Oct. 1978

Cutting Lathe: Neumann VMS-80

Swingin' Steam is an apt title for this extraordinary album, first ever to capture the distinctive sounds and rhythms of real, working trains and wed them musically with conventional instruments.
Here is ride-the-rails rock and pop and piston-pumpin' Jazz, even a beloved Japanese children's song about--you guessed it--trains.
All brilliantly, humorously arranged for "Steam Locomotive and Orchestra".
No modern man-made "machine sound" can match yesterday's fire breathing "Iron Horse" for musical virtuosity, expressing everything from a lonesome midnight melody to a boogie-on-down-the-line blues.Listen closely. It took well over 100 hours to lay down the basic "train tracks" on 24-channel master tape and blend in the co-performance of the "live" musicians. All Aboaaaaard!
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