Japan Exorcising Ghosts Vinyl LP 2022

Description

Tracklist:

1. Methods of Dance
2. Swing
3. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
4. Quiet Life
5. A Foreign Place
6. Nightporter
7. My New Career
8. The Other Side of Life
9. Visions of China
10. Taking Islands in Africa
11. Ghosts
12. Songs of Pioneers
13. Voices Raised in Welcome, Hands Held in Prayer
14. Life Without Buildings
15. Talking Drum
16. The Art of Parties

Exorcising Ghosts (1984) is a 16-track 2LP set compiled and produced in consultation with lead singer David Sylvian, two years after Japan dissolved.

This career spanning ‘Best of’ features three recordings from the band’s early career on the Hansa Records label (including 1979’s “Quiet Life”) but mainly focuses on material from their two seminal studio albums on Virgin Records; Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980) and Tin Drum (1981).

Half Speed Mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, London

The LPs are housed in a Gatefold Sleeve with Printed Inner bags.

Contains a new Print / Abbey Road Half Speed Master Certificate and Obi strip.