Japan - the Art of Parties

When the ads for Japan's 'The Art of Parties' appeared in the Spring of 1981, every New Romantic worth his or her eyeliner took notice.

The single featured the band's most richly sumptuous dance track to date, wildly syncopated rhythm guitars and horns bursting across Steve Jansen's cascading drums, and Sylvian offering one his most irresistible choruses. Add in Mick Karn's increasingly baroque fretless bass, Richard Barberi's shimmering oriental synth textures and this produces one of the iconic singles of the year promising more to come.

In Canada the single was released as an EP, which is features here. It included the B-Side but added in another 2 tracks to flesh out the release. This proved valuable to the Japan collector as this was the better release than the UK version.

'The Art of Parties' reached number 48 in the UK singles Chart

Click the link below to download the following:
The Old Grey whistle Test Performance
Single Version
Extended Version
Album Version
Life Without Buildings - - B-side
The Width Of A Room - EP Extra Track
The Experieince Of Swimming - EP Extra Track

http://www.mediafire.com/?cxajvam4k7p3x

Japan - the Art of Parties - The Old Grey whistle Test Perrormance