I’ve been enjoying Landscape A Go-Go, a boxed set of albums, live recordings, remixes and rarities from a band you’re most likely to know for just one single. It’s absolutely enormous and apparently doesn’t even exhaust the archive: despite only having three conventionally released albums the band played residencies and regular gigs for years, very often recording them on their own gear. Started out as a nine-piece jazz band, slimmed down to eight and then five, but almost exclusively did instrumental pieces until their second album, the magnificently titled From the Tea-rooms of Mars … to the Hell-holes of Uranus. The jazzier instrumental stuff is terrific, demonstrating their adoption and adaptation of emerging synthesizer technology, before they eventually gained wider recognition as a synth-pop band… with a trombonist. A really terrific collection of tunes.
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