“New Zealander Richard Burgess drummed for Buggies, produced Spandau Ballet and now threatens to take over the world with his own band, ‘ LANDSCAPE. ” (Melody Maker) II , ; V, m m M pnif VICTOR Landscape are five instrumentalists, composers and entertainers who met and formed in the mid 1970’5. They are remembered for their successful independent EP . . V * **. j“U2XMEIX2MUCH” which translates as “You two-timed me one time too much!” ; .. . .. ... S AF •yi r imm VMI tnt VICTOR Pi Mmm 1MI? m K*v * mm& s Sll s. " and is an indication of their unusual originality. Burgess himself says: “Nowadays, of I course, it’s fairly common to see Keyboard bands like Gary Numan and Ultravox! I’m : not saying they copied us, it’s probably just that they arrived at the same thing we did a m few years later.” Burgess has become a celebrity recently through his masterful programming of the computer effects on Kate Bush’s Never Forever, his drumming on Vf ' n H the commercially successful Buggies album, his work with Hot Gossip from the Kenny i: gif Everett Video Show and his exceptionally original production of Spandau Ballet’s To ■■I Cut A Long Story Short and Freeze. Burgess has lately forsaken the drummer’s stool iliiisniliiiiil for full time knob-twiddling using programmed drums on most of this new album and iilMHthe effects are quite remarkable as one hearing will soon prove. OLS? ' ~ Jsi®*l .’' v . ■ ■'* wi m >S*r? J2* : “ ii; -< v - Give the gift of music. 1 < ■ W s« sIip LAHDXAP now threatens to take over the world with his own band, ‘LANDSCAPE.” (Melody Maker) Landscape are five instrumentalists, composers and entertainers who met and formed in the mid 1970’5. They are remembered for their successful independent EP “U2XMEIX2MUCH” which.translates as “You two-timed me one time too much!” and is an indication of their unusual originality. Burgess himself says: “Nowadays, of course, it’s fairly common to see Keyboard bands like Gary Numan and Ultravox! I’m., not saying they copied us, it’s probably just that they arrived at the same thing we did a few years later.” Burgess has become a celebrity recently through his masterful programming of the computer effects on Kate Bush’s Never Forever, his drumming on the commercially successful Buggies album, his work with Hot Gossip from the Kenny Everett Video Show and his exceptionally original production of Spandau Ballet’s To Cut A Long Story Short and Freeze. Burgess has lately forsaken the drummer’s stool. for full time knob-twiddling using programmed drums on most of this new album and the effects are quite remarkable as one hearing will soon prove. Give the gift of music. LAIIDKAPe Fr on the Tea-rooms of liars From the Tea-rooms of Mars.... ....to the Hell-holes of Uranus . ' VPLI 7397 European Man; Shake The West Awake; Computer Person; Alpine Tragedy;. Sisters; Face Of The 80's; New . Religion; Einstein A Go-Go; Norman Bates; The Doll's House; title track with Beguine, Mambo and Tango. ; Einstein A Go-Go is a catchy fantasy piece featuring a puritanical nutter equipped with an H-Bomb and a zealous desire to clean up the world while Norman Bates is - concerned with a certain mother-fixated murderer well ’ .V ’T' known to all fans of the late, lamented Mr Hitchcock. ItCJI Distributed in New Zealand by RCA Limited and available now wherever good records are sold AMAZING GRAZE. You think you've heard it all. Seen it all. You haven't. Till you've heard Grace Jones 1 GRACE JONES. NIGHTCLUBBING. 1 i
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Rip It Up, Issue 49, 1 August 1981, Page 19
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