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How Landscape made Einstein a Go-Go: ‘It was so ahead of its time we waited a few months to release it’ | Musique Non Stop

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Monday, July 24, 2023

How Landscape made Einstein a Go-Go: ‘It was so ahead of its time we waited a few months to release it’

‘The phone calls in the intro are genuine – to the Kremlin, the White House, the Iranian embassy. If you did that today they’d send a Swat team’

We had been this cult and edgy instrumental jazz-punk-indie band that no one would sign. The nicest rejection letter I got was from Quincy Jones: “Great horns, great arrangements, pass owing to time commitments.” I’d started the band as a nine-piece to play my own music, which wasn’t very economically viable. We got it down to five and decided we’d try to make the band sound as big as possible using electronics.

Landscape a Go-Go (The Story of Landscape 1977-83) is out on 21 July

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