''Landscape'' is the first album by the band

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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

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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 *

Richard James Burgess Richard James Burgess (born 29 June 1949) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, composer, author, manager, marketer and inventor. 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,

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, grand piano, Roland Chorus Echo *

Andy Pask Andrew Howard Pask (born 30 August 1955) is an English musician who was a member of the band Landscape. He co-wrote the theme to the TV show ''The Bill''. Early years Andy Pask was a pupil at Haileybury College in Hertfordshire, where he play ...

– fretless and fretted Griffin basses *

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), A ...

- trombone, electric trombone * John Walters - soprano saxophone,

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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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, Peter Lorimer - continuity supervision

Audio excerpts

References

{{Authority control 1979 debut albums Landscape (band) albums RCA Records albums