Merlin Atmos

Live album by Van der Graaf Generator

Released

2 February 2015

Recorded

June 2013

Genre

Progressive rock

Length

45:35 (vinyl)
70:59 (CD)
142:12 (Special edition)

Label

Esoteric Antenna

Producer

Van der Graaf Generator

Van der Graaf Generator chronology

ALT
(2012)

Merlin Atmos
(2015)

Do Not Disturb
(2016)

Merlin Atmos is a live album by English progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator, released in February 2015.^[1]^[2] The album was recorded during the band's European tour in June 2013 and includes a full onstage performance of the suite "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers", originally recorded for Pawn Hearts in 1971.^[3]

In addition to the regular version of the album, a special edition containing an extra CD called "Bonus Atmos" and a vinyl version including just the two long suites ("Flight" and "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers") were also issued.

Track listing

All tracks written by Peter Hammill except when noted.

Regular album

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Flight"		21:30
2.	"Lifetime"		5:11
3.	"All That Before"	Hammill, Banton, Evans	7:46
4.	"Bunsho"	Hammill, Banton, Evans	5:48
5.	"A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers"	Hammill, Banton, Evans, Jackson	24:05
6.	"Gog"		6:39

Bonus Atmos

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Interference Patterns"	Hammill, Banton, Evans	4:28
2.	"Over the Hill"	Hammill, Banton, Evans	12:36
3.	"Your Time Starts Now"	Hammill, Banton, Evans	4:14
4.	"Scorched Earth"	Hammill, Jackson	10:14
5.	"Meurglys III, The Songwriter's Guild"		15:24
6.	"Man-Erg"		11:30
7.	"Childlike Faith in Childhood's End"		12:37

Vinyl

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Flight" "Flying Blind" "The White Cane Fandango" "Controll" "Cockpit" "Six Worm Wings" "Nothing is Nothing" "A Black Box"	Hammill	21:30

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" "Eyewitness" "Pictures/Lighthouse" "Eyewitness" "SHM" "Presence of the Night" "Kosmos Tours" "(Custard's) Last Stand" "The Clot Thickens" "Land's End (Sineline)" "We Go Now"	Hammill, Banton, Evans, Jackson	24:05

Personnel

Peter Hammill - vocals, guitar, keyboards
Hugh Banton - organ, bass pedals
Guy Evans - drums

References

↑ "Merlin Atmos". SofaSound. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
↑ "Van Der Graaf Generator melden sich mit Live-Album zurück". Rolling Stone (in German). 2 February 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
↑ "Van der Graaf Generator : Merlin Atmos". Cherry Red Records. Retrieved 28 August 2015.

Van der Graaf Generator

Peter Hammill Hugh Banton Guy Evans Chris Judge Smith Nick Pearne Keith Ellis Nic Potter David Jackson Graham Smith Charles Dickie

Studio albums	The Aerosol Grey Machine (1969) The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other (1970) H to He, Who Am the Only One (1970) Pawn Hearts (1971) Godbluff (1975) Still Life (1976) World Record (1976) The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome (1977) Present (2005) Trisector (2008) A Grounding in Numbers (2011) ALT (2012) Do Not Disturb (2016)

Demo albums	Time Vaults (1982)

Live albums	Vital (1978) Maida Vale (1994) Real Time (2007) Merlin Atmos (2015)

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