Landscape (band)
English band
Landscape were an English synth-pop band, best known for the 1981 hits "Einstein a Go-Go" and "Norman Bates". Formed in London in 1975, the band toured constantly during the mid-to-late-1970s, playing rock, punk and jazz venues and releasing two instrumental EPs on its own Event Horizon label. The group began experimenting with computer-programmed music and electronic drums in the late 1970s and early 1980s, making records in the emerging genre of synth-pop.
Formation
Landscape was composed of Richard James Burgess (drums, computer programming, synths, vocals), Christopher Heaton (keyboard synthesizers, piano, vocals), Andy Pask (fretted and fretless basses, bass synth, vocals), Peter Thoms (trombone, electric trombone, vocals), and John L. Walters (lyricon, soprano sax, alto flute, computer programming, synths, vocals). The band built a following through live performances, touring and founding the indie label Event Horizon, through which it released two EPs. After signing with RCA, the band released its debut studio album Landscape in 1979. It's next studio album in 1981, From the Tea-rooms of Mars ...., included the Top 5 UK hit "Einstein a Go-Go" and "Norman Bates". Their third studio album was 1982's Manhattan Boogie-Woogie. After release of this album, Heaton and Thoms left the band.
Landscape III
Following the release of Landscape's third and final studio album, Manhattan Boogie-Woogie, the band became a trio, composed of Burgess, Pask, and Walters.
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