Landscape (Landscape album)

Landscape
Studio album by
Landscape
Released1979
RecordedMid 1979
StudioUtopia Studios, Primrose Hill; The Manor; Audio International Studios, London W1
GenreJazz rock[1]
Length35:43
LabelRCA
ProducerGreg Walsh
Landscape chronology
Landscape
(1979) 		From the Tea-rooms of Mars ....
(1981)
Singles from Landscape
  1. "Japan"
    Released: 1979
  2. "Sonja Henie"
    Released: 1979
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Japan"Richard James Burgess, John Walters, Christopher Heaton, Landscape3:22
2."Lost in the Small Ads"John Walters, Landscape4:16
3."The Mechanical Bride"John Walters, Landscape3:24
4."Neddy Sindrum"Burgess, Heaton, Landscape3:42
5."Kaptin Whorlix"Andy Pask, Landscape3:50
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Sonja Henie"Heaton, John Walters, Burgess, Landscape3:31
2."Many's the Time"Peter Thoms, Landscape3:23
3."Highly Suspicious"Heaton, Burgess, Landscape3:38
4."Gotham City"Landscape3:38
5."Wandsworth Plain"John Walters, Landscape2:59

1992 Mau Mau Records CD: MAU CD 618

2009 Cherry Pop CD: CR POP 36

Personnel

Landscape

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

Audio excerpts

Landscape - Japan excerpt
An excerpt from Japan
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Landscape - Sonja Henie excerpt
An excerpt from Sonja Henie
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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.