Human (Gary Numan album)

Infobox Album
Name = Human
Type = Album
Artist = Gary Numan and Michael R. Smith


Released = 1995
Recorded = Outland studios, England
Genre = Synthpop, electronic music
Length =
Label = Numa
Producer = Michael R. Smith Gary Numan
Reviews =
Chronology = Gary Numan
Last album = "Sacrifice" (1994)
This album = "Human"
(1995)
Next album = "Exile" (1997)

"Human" is a 1995 album released by British musician Gary Numan and music producer Michael R. Smith. It consists of 36 tracks that had been written, but were largely unused, for the low-budget 1991 horror/science-fiction movie "The Unborn." In his autobiography, Numan described how the project came about:

Numan and Smith's music for "The Unborn", written in early 1991, was later released as the instrumental album "Human" in 1995, through Numan's label Numa Records. Numan has described "Human" as "an hour-long collection of musical ideas, each with a specific mood or atmosphere in mind, not a conventional instrumental album." ["Praying to the Aliens: An Autobiography" by Gary Numan with Steve Malins. (1997, André Deutsch Limited), p.255]

Parts of some of the tracks have subsequently been used in later work by Numan. [Album liner notes]

Track listing

All tracks written by Gary Numan and Michael R. Smith.

# "Navigators" – 2.12
# "Bombay" – 2.29
# "We Fold Space" – 1.10
# "A Cry in the Dark" – 2.45
# "Manic" – 1.36
# "Empire" – 2.19
# "A Little Lost Soul" – 2.41
# "The Visitor" – 1.09
# "Magician" – 2.12
# "Undercover" – 1.27
# "Halloween" – 1.13
# "Embryo" – 1.38
# "Elm Street" – 1.26
# "Harmonos" – 2.20
# "Big Alten" – 1.47
# "Blind Faith" – 1.09
# "New Life" – 4.01
# "Fairy Tales" – 2.52
# "Disease" – 2.22
# "Tidal Wave" – 1.21
# "Alone and Afraid" – 1.19
# "Sahara" – 1.34
# "Cold" – 1.41
# "Do You Wonder" – 1.31
# "Betrayal" – 1.01
# "Suspicion" – 1.03
# "The Unborn" – 1.59
# "Lethal Injection" – 1.43
# "Frantic" – 1.04
# "Mother" – 0.57
# "Black Heart" – 1.42
# "Thunder Road" – 0.34
# "Law and Order" – 2.02
# "Needles" – 2.27
# "Climax" – 0.35
# "Inferno" – 0.48

References

External links

* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:09fwxqwjldse All Music Guide]
* [http://www.discogs.com/release/376263 Discogs.com]