''Landscape'' is the first album by the band
Landscape
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, 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
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label. This CD also includes Landscape's final album, ''
Manhattan Boogie-Woogie''.
Track listing
LP: RCA PL 25248
1992 Mau Mau Records CD: MAU CD 618
2009 Cherry Pop CD: CR POP 36
Personnel
;Landscape
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Richard James Burgess
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Burgess's music career spans more than 50 years. He came to prominence in the early 1980s a ...
- Pearl Drums,
SDS 3 drums synthesizer, acoustic percussion, Moog drum
*Christopher Heaton -
Yamaha CS80 polyphonic synthesizer,
Fender Rhodes Piano
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, grand piano, Roland Chorus Echo
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Andy Pask – fretless and fretted Griffin basses
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Peter Thoms
Peter Thoms is an English musician and composer best known for playing keyboards and trombone for the synthpop band Landscape.
Biography
Landscape was formed in 1974 with Richard James Burgess (vocals, drums), Christopher Heaton (keyboards), An ...
- trombone, electric trombone
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John Walters - soprano saxophone,
Lyricon
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, flute
Production
*Producer: Greg Walsh
*Engineer: Greg Walsh
*Additional engineering: Peter Walsh, Richard Manwaring
*Assistant engineers: Marlis Duncklau, Simon Hurrell
*Graphics: John Warwicker
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J.J. Jeczalik
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, Peter Lorimer - continuity supervision
Audio excerpts
References
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1979 debut albums
Landscape (band) albums
RCA Records albums