5013929710184

A Grounding In Numbers

Van Der Graaf Generator

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Format: CD

Cat No: EVDGCD1001

Release Date:  05 May 2023

Label:  Esoteric / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5013929710184

Genres:  Rock  

  • Description

    RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2011



    • A TIMELY RE-PRESS OF THIS 2011 ALBUM FROM VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR.



    • ‘A Grounding in Numbers’ was the band’s 12th studio record.


    In April 2010 Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton and Guy Evans met up for intensive tracking sessions in Cornwall, arranging, rehearsing and recording the album in a week. Some of the pieces were already fully-formed songs; others, even at this stage, remained more sketches than fully realised works. Over the next months the tracks were overdubbed, edited and adapted by the band in their own studios. By September the project was ready to be mixed. Legendary producer Hugh Padgham agreed to take on this part of the process - the first time anyone outside the band had been entrusted such responsibility. After three weeks in Hugh’s London studio, Sofasound (which shares its name with Peter’s original home set-up), ‘A Grounding in Numbers’ was completed.


    With a fantastic clarity and depth of sound and a helter- skelter stretch of tunes, ‘A Grounding...’ sees VDGG pushing ever further forward into the twenty first century. Clearly, they know they’re a group with a certain history - but they are also an emphatically modern one.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. YOUR TIME STARTS NOW
      • 2. MATHEMATICS
      • 3. HIGHLY STRUNG
      • 4. RED BARON
      • 5. BUNSHO
      • 6. SNAKE OIL
      • 7. SPLINK
      • 8. EMBARRASING KID
      • 9. MEDUSA
      • 10. Mr. SANDS
      • 11. SMOKE
      • 12. 5533
      • 13. ALL OVER THE PLACE