Landscape

Landscape were an experimental jazz-funk and later electro-pop band formed in London during the mid-70s. The five-piece were one of the first truly 'independent' groups of the late 70s doing their own recording, production, promotion and management. Initial recordings were released on their own Event Horizon Enterprises label. They eventually signed to major label RCA and released their eponymous debut album of instrumental tracks in 1979.

Their second album From The Tea-Rooms Of Mars .... To The Hell-Holes Of Uranus (1981) saw the group adopt more electronic instruments and elements as well as changes in lyrical content. The album gained critical and commercial success and spawned the hit singles Einstein-A-Go-Go and Norman Bates which put the band in the electro-pop/new romantic/futurist bracket.

Success was short lived however, and a third album Manhattan Boogie-Woogie (1982) failed to achieve any kind of success. A reduced three-piece version of the band called Landscape III was briefly active in 1983.

Founder member and drummer/vocalist Richard James Burgess also produced the first two albums by Spandau Ballet, as well as tracks by other 80s acts such as Adam Ant, King and Brother Beyond. He has also published books on music production.