Safety in Numbers
Studio album by
David Van Tieghem
Released1987
Studio
Various
  • Battery Sound
  • Skyline Studios
  • Avic Studio
Genre
Length46:14
LabelPrivate Music
Producer
David Van Tieghem chronology
These Things Happen
(1984)		 Safety in Numbers
(1987)		 Strange Cargo
(1989)

Safety in Numbers is the second studio album by American progressive electronic composer and percussionist David Van Tieghem, released in 1987 by Private Music. Van Tieghem and Roma Baran produced the album, and it was recorded at two separate recording studios in New York City, which were Battery Sound and Skyline Studios. Ryuichi Sakamoto of Yellow Magic Orchestra recorded his overdubs at Avic Studio in Tokyo. The sounds and sequences were digitally transferred to floppy disks and sent to Skyline Studio in New York, where they were realized onto multitrack tape by David Lebolt via Macintosh computer, MIDI interface and Mark of the Unicorn Performer software.

Tony Levin, the longtime bassist for progressive rock band King Crimson, plays Chapman Stick on the track "Night of the Cold Noses". Safety in Numbers' music has been described as a "downtown" mix of pop, new-age, percussion music and electronic music.[1] The album makes extensive use of the Fairlight CMI digital sampling synthesizer.

After its original release, the album remained out-of-print on any format for many years. However, the album became available in 2017 via online MP3 download on Bandcamp.[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, critic "Blue" Gene Tyranny (who also played piano on "Crystals" from the album) wrote, "not comfortably labeled New Age, or percussion music, or pop, or electronic music, Van Tieghem's music has that "downtown" mix of all these and yet is distinctly his own...from the lush "Crystals" to the droll and rhythm steady "Night of the Cold Noses." This is twisted "easy listening."[3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by David Van Tieghem

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Galaxy"5:06
2."Thunder Lizard"5:00
3."Crystals"5:04
4."Night of the Cold Noses"5:10
5."Futures"4:54
Side two
No.TitleLength
6."All Safe"5:49
7."Skeleton Key"4:23
8."Clear"4:31
9."Deep Sky"2:43
10."A Wing and a Prayer"3:34
Total length:46:14

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the Safety in Numbers liner notes.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Safety In Numbers: Overview Tyranny, "Blue" Gene. 8-12-08.
  2. ↑ "Safety in Numbers by David Van Tieghem on Bandcamp". Bandcamp. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  3. 1 2 Tyranny, "Blue" Gene. "Safety in Numbers – David Van Tieghem". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  4. ↑ Safety in Numbers (CD booklet). David Van Tieghem. Private Music. 1987.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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