Samiksha Jaiswal (Editor)

From the Tea rooms of Mars ....

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Released
  
February 1981

Artist
  
Landscape

Label
  
Cherry Red Records

Length
  
43:40

Release date
  
February 1981

From the Tea-rooms of Mars .... httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenbbfLan

Recorded
  
Mid 1980 ("European Man" Late 1979/Early 1980)

Producer
  
Landscape Colin Thurston and Landscape

From the Tea-rooms of Mars .... (1981)
  
Manhattan Boogie-Woogie (1982)

Genres
  
Synth-pop, Electronic dance music

Similar
  
Manhattan Boogie‑Woogie, Landscape, Journeys to Glory, The Age of Plastic, Superficial

Landscape european man hq audio original


From the Tea-rooms of Mars .... (fully titled: From the Tea-rooms of Mars .... to the Hell-holes of Uranus) is the second album from Landscape and was released in 1981. The album contains the band's only UK chart hits: "Einstein A Go-Go" which reached No. 5 in February 1981 and "Norman Bates," which reached No. 40 in May of the same year.

Contents

The album was reissued in 1992 on the Mau Mau Records label. This CD also includes Landscape's first album, Landscape. The album was reissued again in 2002 on the Cherry Red Records label.

2002 Cherry Red Records CD: CDMRED 209

  • Tracks 11-12 from the album Manhattan Boogie-Woogie (1982) produced by Landscape
  • Tracks 13-14 extended versions of singles released as 'Landscape III' (1983) produced by Richard James Burgess, John Walters and Andy Pask

    • Personnel

  • Richard James Burgess - vocals, computer programming, electronic drums and percussion, synthesizers and drums. Roland MC8 microcomposer, System 100 modular synths, SDS-V electronic drums, Pearl drums, claptrap, Burgess amplified percussion
  • Christopher Heaton - keyboards and vocals. Yamaha CS80 polyphonic synthesizer, grand piano, Fender Rhodes piano with ring modulator and effects, Casiotone 201 digital keyboard, Minimoog, Roland vocoders, Roland Chorus Echo
  • Andy Pask - bass guitar, bass synthesizers and vocals. Giffin fretted and fretless basses, Yamaha CS80, Roland ProMars synthesizer
  • Peter Thoms - electronic trombone, trombone and vocals. King 3B Trombone, Barcus Berry tranducer and graphic pre-amp, Roland pitch/voltage synthesizer and Chorus Echo, MXR Blue Box
  • John Walters - computer programming, wind synthesizers and Vocals. Computone wind synthesizer driver and Lyricon 1, Roland MC8, ProMars and System 100 synthesizers and vocoder, Selmer MKVI soprano saxophone

    • Production

  • Producer: Landscape
  • "European Man" produced by Colin Thurston and Landscape
  • Engineered by: John Etchells at JAM
    John Hudson and Brian Tench at Mayfair Sound
    Hugh Padgham at the Town House
    Andy Jackson, Peter Walsh, Rafe McKenna and Peter Smith at Utopia
    Steve Rance and Graeme Jackson at Nova Suite
    Rik Walton at Workhouse
    Dave Hunt at Berry Street
    David Baker at Odyssey
    Colin Thurston at Red Bus
    Landscape at Southern Studios

    • Songs

    1European Man4:23
    2Shake the West Awake3:26
    3Computer Person2:59

    References

    From the Tea-rooms of Mars .... Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA