From the Tea-rooms of Mars ....
From the Tea-rooms of Mars.... is the second studio album by the English synth-pop band Landscape, released in February 1981 by RCA Records. The album contains the band's only UK singles chart hits: "Einstein a Go-Go" which reached No. 5 in April 1981 and "Norman Bates" which reached No. 40 in June of the same year.
The album was reissued in 1992 on the Mau Mau Records label. This CD also includes Landscape's debut studio album, Landscape. The album was reissued again in 2002 on the Cherry Red Records label.
Track listing
2002 Cherry Red Records CD: CDMRED 209
- Tracks 11–12 from the album Manhattan Boogie-Woogie produced by Landscape
- Tracks 13–14 extended versions of singles released as 'Landscape III' produced by Richard James Burgess, John Walters and Andy Pask
Personnel
Landscape- 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
Hugh Padgham at Townhouse Studios
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 Studio
David Baker at Odyssey Studios
Colin Thurston at Red Bus
Landscape at Southern Studios