Landscape (Landscape album)

Landscape
Studio album by Landscape
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
Landscape chronology
Landscape (1979) From the Tea-rooms of Mars .... (1981)
Singles from Landscape
"Japan" Released: 1979 "Sonja Henie" Released: 1979

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

Landscape is the first album by the band Landscape, released in 1979. It contains ten instrumental tracks with a jazz-funk influence.

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

LP: RCA PL 25248

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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

Personnel

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

• 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

References

1. 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.
2. "Review: Landscape". Allmusic. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
3. "Landscape + Manhattan Boogie-Woogie". Cherry Red Records. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2012.