Product Description
Title: Japan – Exorcising Ghosts Format: 2 LP vinyl Label: Universal Barcode: 0602438621354
Release date: October 7th 2022
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).
Track Listings
Disc: 1
| 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 |
Disc: 2
| 1 | Visions of China |
| 2 | Taking Islands in Africa |
| 3 | Ghosts |
| 4 | Songs of Pioneers |
| 5 | Voices Raised in Welcome, Hands Held in Prayer |
| 6 | Life Without Buildings |
| 7 | Talking Drum |
| 8 | The Art of Parties |
