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A Foreign Place is a comprehensive biography of the influential band Japan by musician and author, Anthony Reynolds. 

 

Chronicling the rise and fall of one of the 1980s most respected and beloved bands, the book lifts the veil on the creative processes and personal histories of a fascinating group of introspective musicians whose activities have frequently been shrouded in secrecy.

 

Reynolds, previously responsible for books on The Walker Brothers and Leonard Cohen, engagingly details the strange twists and turns that saw a group of friends from working class South London develop from unpromising provincial Glam Funk origins to eventually become the authors of the innovative and exotic sonic assault of the globally successful Tin Drum.

 

Written with the full approval and co-operation of Richard Barbieri, Steve Jansen and Rob Dean, the book contains many unseen period photographs, as well as first-hand accounts of the band and its music from friends, music industry associates and musical collaborators.

 

The first publishing venture for Burning Shed, A Foreign Place is presented as a deluxe hardback edition designed by Carl Glover.

 

212 pages. 210 x 210mm square. Hardback book, cloth-bound with a foil debos. Contains approximately 260 pictures, many unseen before.

 

This is the big red book the defiant dons of delicacy deserve. - Prog magazine