Album
Oil On Canvas
1983 · Electronic, Rock
12 collectors on Gatefold own this
Oil On Canvas is an Electronic album by Japan, originally released in 1983. On Gatefold: 97 pressings tracked, owned by 12 collectors.
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Oil on Canvas is a live album by the English band Japan, released in June 1983 by Virgin Records. It was released six months after the band had broken up, and became their highest charting album in the UK, peaking at number 5.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Oil On Canvas1:23
- A2Sons Of Pioneers5:00
- A3Gentlemen Take Polaroids6:36
- A4Swing5:46
Side B
- B1Cantonese Boy3:45
- B2Visions Of China5:41
- B3Ghosts5:15
- B4Voices Raised In Welcome, Hands Held In Prayer3:33
Side C
- C1Night Porter6:45
- C2Still Life In Mobile Homes5:37
- C3Methods Of Dance6:12
Side D
- D1Quiet Life4:33
- D2The Art Of Parties5:25
- D3Canton5:47
- D4Temple Of Dawn1:47
Sound DNA
- Electronic
- Synth-Pop / New Wave
- velvety
- brooding
- nocturnal
Oil On Canvas is a live album by the English band Japan, released in June 1983, six months after the band had broken up. It became their highest charting album in the UK, peaking at number 5: Japan (national chart, 11), No. 1 on the overseas artists chart.
The live tracks on the double album were taken from the band's performances at the in November 1982, during their final live concert tour. With guitarist Rob Dean having left the band in 1981, Japanese session musician Masami Tsuchiya was added to the line-up on guitar and additional keyboards.
Although marketed as a live recording, the album also contains three new instrumental studio tracks ("Oil On Canvas", "Voices Raised In Welcome, Hands Held In Prayer", and "Temple Of Dawn"), recorded separately by Sylvian, Sylvian/Jansen and Barbieri respectively - the title of Barbieri's track is taken from the novel The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima.
Mick Karn's autobiography later admitted that the tracks were re-recorded in the studio and therefore deemed it not a live album.
Some early single-disc CD editions omit the "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" and "Swing" tracks.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- David SylvianPERFORMER , VOCALS, KEYBOARDS VOCALS , KEYBOARDS VOCALS, KEYBOARDS
- Masami TsuchiyaGUITAR , KEYBOARDS GUITAR, KEYBOARDS PERFORMER , GUITAR, KEYBOARDS
- Mick KarnBASS , CLARINET , SAXOPHONE , VOCALS BASS, CLARINET, SAXOPHONE, VOCALS PERFORMER , BASS GUITAR, CLARINET, SAXOPHONE, VOCALS
- Richard BarbieriKEYBOARDS PERFORMER , KEYBOARDS WRITTEN-BY, PERFORMER
- Steve JansenDRUMS , MARIMBA DRUMS, MARIMBA PERFORMER , DRUMS, MARIMBA
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