Landscape is the first album by the band Landscape, released in 1979. It contains ten instrumental tracks with a jazz-funk influence.
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| Released | 1979 | |||
| Recorded | Mid 1979 | |||
| Studio | Utopia Studios, Primrose Hill; The Manor; Audio International Studios, London W1 | |||
| Genre | Jazz rock[1] | |||
| Length | 35:43 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Producer | Greg Walsh | |||
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The album was reissued in 1992 on the Mau Mau Records label. This CD also includes Landscape's second album From the Tea-rooms of Mars ..... The album was reissued again in November 2009 on the Cherry Pop label. This CD also includes Landscape's final album, Manhattan Boogie-Woogie.[3]
Track listing
editLP: RCA PL 25248
edit| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Japan" | Richard James Burgess, John Walters, Christopher Heaton, Landscape | 3:22 |
| 2. | "Lost in the Small Ads" | John Walters, Landscape | 4:16 |
| 3. | "The Mechanical Bride" | John Walters, Landscape | 3:24 |
| 4. | "Neddy Sindrum" | Burgess, Heaton, Landscape | 3:42 |
| 5. | "Kaptin Whorlix" | Andy Pask, Landscape | 3:50 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Sonja Henie" | Heaton, John Walters, Burgess, Landscape | 3:31 |
| 2. | "Many's the Time" | Peter Thoms, Landscape | 3:23 |
| 3. | "Highly Suspicious" | Heaton, Burgess, Landscape | 3:38 |
| 4. | "Gotham City" | Landscape | 3:38 |
| 5. | "Wandsworth Plain" | John Walters, Landscape | 2:59 |
1992 Mau Mau Records CD: MAU CD 618
edit2009 Cherry Pop CD: CR POP 36
editPersonnel
edit- Landscape
- Richard James Burgess - Pearl Drums, SDS 3 drums synthesizer, acoustic percussion, Moog drum
- Christopher Heaton - Yamaha CS80 polyphonic synthesizer, Fender Rhodes Piano, grand piano, Roland Chorus Echo
- Andy Pask – fretless and fretted Griffin basses
- Peter Thoms - trombone, electric trombone
- John Walters - soprano saxophone, Lyricon, flute
Production
edit- Producer: Greg Walsh
- Engineer: Greg Walsh
- Additional engineering: Peter Walsh, Richard Manwaring
- Assistant engineers: Marlis Duncklau, Simon Hurrell
- Graphics: John Warwicker
- J.J. Jeczalik, Peter Lorimer - continuity supervision
Audio excerpts
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References
edit- ^ Evans, Richard (6 August 2024). "1981.1". Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983. Omnibus Press. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-915841-45-2.
- ^ "Review: Landscape". Allmusic. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
- ^ "Landscape + Manhattan Boogie-Woogie". Cherry Red Records. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2012.