OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA
CATALOGUE TLGMC001
FORMAT CASSETTE SINGLE
LABEL TELEGRAPH RECORDS
RELEASE DATE 12/07/93
CHART -
SLEEVE DESIGN Tim Sheard, Orange Art
 
CURRENT VALUE £3 - 5
TRACK LISTING WRITERS PRODUCER RECORDED
OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA Humphreys, Cooper, Holmes The Listening Pool & Ronnie Stone Rhythm Ranch & Parr Street Studios
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE Humphreys, Cooper, Holmes The Listening Pool Rhythm Ranch
OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA (EXTENDED VERSION) Humphreys, Cooper, Holmes The Listening Pool & Ronnie Stone Rhythm Ranch & Parr Street Studios
OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA (INSTRUMENTAL) Humphreys, Cooper, Holmes The Listening Pool & Ronnie Stone Rhythm Ranch & Parr Street Studios
 

Following the break-up of OMD around 1988, Paul Humphreys, Mal Holmes and Martin Cooper launched a new outfit called The Listening Pool. The emphasis on this new project was a delicate blend of electronics and acoustic instruments. A press release described The Listening Pool as having "captured the moody melodies of early Orchestral Manoevures In The Dark and combined it with their own distinctive sound".

Oil For The Lamps Of China was their debut release.
 

The sleeve design features an evocative photo entitled 'Bring Me Home' which had been taken in China by photographer Clive Vincent Jachnik - an old school friend of Martin Cooper.