David Van Tieghem
Mister Heartbreak (LP)
Original US edition on Warner Bros. of the 1984 electronic avant-garde pop masterwork featuring Peter Gabriel, Adrian Belew, Nile Rogers, David van Tieghem, Bill Laswell and William Burroughs among others.
Safety In Numbers (LP)
Unusual mix of pop, new-age, percussion music and electronic music by memeber of Steve Reich And Musicians and the Love Of Life Orchestra, featuring "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Richard Landry and Ned Sublette among the performers, released by Private Music in 1987. Twisted easy listening.
Strange Cargo (LP)
Third album of twisted easy listening by memeber of Steve Reich And Musicians and the Love Of Life Orchestra, mixing funk, jazz, Asian music and progressive electronic styles, released in Germany by Private Music in 1989.
Even As We Speak: The Music of David Van Tieghem
The American percussionist, composer, and songwriter David Van Tieghem (b. 1955) is something like a musical equivalent to astronomy’s “hypothetical astronomical object”: while evidence of an irresistible gravitational pull can be felt in deep reaches of the cosmos, its source is enshrouded in darkness, revealing glimpses of celestial power to astute observers. For David Van Tieghem, these observers include a dizzyingly impressive cast of landmark musicians with whom he has composed and performe…