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  Type LP
  Artist Japan
  Background orange
  Released June , 1983
  Recorded November 1982
  Genre Post-Punk , New Wave
  Length 71:58
  Label Virgin Records
  Producer John Punter
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  Last Album '' Tin Drum '' <br/> ( 1981 )
  This Album '''Oil On Canvas''' <br/> ( 1983 )
  Next Album NA


Oil on Canvas is a live album by Japan , released in 1983 by Virgin Records , after the band had split in 1982 . Re-released in 2004 as a two-disc remastered edition with no additional tracks.

The music on the album was taken from Japan's performances at a series of concerts during November 1982, just one month before the band split. A video version of Oil On Canvas is also available, from Virgin Records.


TRACK LISTING

# "Oil on Canvas" (1:25)
# "Sons of Pioneers" (4:59)
# "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" (6:41)
# "Swing" (5:36)
# "Cantonese Boy" (3:45)
# "Visions of China" (3:34)
# "Ghosts" (6:23)
# "Voices Raised in Welcome, Hands Held in Prayer" (3:30)
# "Nightporter" (6:47)
# "Still Life in Mobile Homes" (5:37)
# "Methods of Dance" (6:07)
# "Quiet Life" (4:34)
# "The Art of Parties" (5:28)
# "Canton" (5:43)
# "Temple of Dawn" (1:45)

SINGLES


# "Canton/Visions of China(live)"