Van Der Graaf Generator – Interference Patterns – The Recordings 2005-2016 13CD+DVD Box Set

Van Der Graaf Generator – Interference patterns 

• 14 DISC LIMITED EDITION BOXED SET FEATURING ALL OF THE RECORDINGS BY VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR ISSUED BETWEEN 2005 AND 2016.

• FEATURING 13 CDs AND AN NTSC/REGION FREE DVD

• INCLUDING THE ALBUMS ‘PRESENT’, ‘REAL TIME’, ‘TRISECTOR’, ‘LIVE AT THE PARADISO’, ‘A GROUNDING IN NUMBERS’, ‘ALT’, ‘MERLIN ATMOS’ AND ‘DO NOT DISTURB’.

• PLUS RARE ADDITIONAL LIVE RECORDINGS ISSUED ONLY IN JAPAN AND THE DVD ‘LIVE AT THE PARADISO’.

• WITH AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK WITH A NEW ESSAY AND INTERVIEWS BY SID SMITH.

Van der Graaf Generator were one of the most original and inspiring bands of the 1970s. When Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton, Guy Evans and David Jackson announced their reformation in 2005 to perform concerts and to record a new album, it took many by surprise, but the group proved they were still making relevant and truly progressive music.

Their reunion would not be a short-lived affair, as VdGG continued to record a series of excellent studio and live albums, despite the departure of David Jackson in late 2005 following the release of the album ‘Present’. Over the next ten years VdGG issued a string of albums and toured as the mood took them.

This boxed set celebrates this second era of Van der Graaf Generator with all of the albums issued by the band between 2005 and 2016 and includes the long deleted live double album and concert DVD ‘Live At Paradiso’ and the rare additional live CD previously issued only on the limited Japanese release of ‘Real Time’.

‘Interference Patterns’ includes a 96-page book with an extensive new essay and band interviews by Sid Smith and features each album in replica album sleeves.

Tracklist:
Present
CD1-1 Every Bloody Emperor 7:03
CD1-2 Boleas Panic 6:51
CD1-3 Nutter Alert 6:10
CD1-4 Abandon Ship! 5:06
CD1-5 In Babelsberg 5:30
CD1-6 On The Beach 6:51

CD2-1 Vulcan Meld 7:18
CD2-2 Double Bass 6:30
CD2-3 Slo Moves 6:23
CD2-4 Architectural Hair 8:53
CD2-5 Spanner 5:00
CD2-6 Crux 5:50
CD2-7 Manuelle 7:51
CD2-8 'Eavy Mate 3:50
CD2-9 Homage To Teo 4:42
CD2-10 The Price Of Admission 8:51

Real Time (Royal Festival Hall)
CD3-1 The Undercover Man 8:29
CD3-2 Scorched Earth 10:05
CD3-3 Refugees 6:00
CD3-4 Every Bloody Emperor 7:36
CD3-5 Lemmings 13:20
CD3-6 (In The) Black Room 11:15
CD3-7 Nutter Alert 6:05
CD3-8 Darkness (11 / 11) 7:22

CD4-1 Masks 6:47
CD4-2 Childlike Faith In Childhood's End 12:34
CD4-3 The Sleepwalkers 10:44
CD4-4 Man-Erg 11:37
CD4-5 Killer 9:54
CD4-6 Wondering 7:03

Real Time (Japanese Limited Edition)
CD5-1 Pilgrims 7:29
CD5-2 When She Comes 8:06
CD5-3 Still Life 7:50
CD5-4 Gibberish 13:39

Trisector
CD6-1 The Hurlyburly 4:35
CD6-2 Interference Patterns 3:50
CD6-3 The Final Reel 5:47
CD6-4 Lifetime 4:45
CD6-5 Drop Dead 4:47
CD6-6 Only In A Whisper 6:44
CD6-7 All That Before 6:26
CD6-8 Over The Hill 12:26
CD6-9 (We Are) Not Here 4:06

Live At The Paradiso (14:04:07)
CD7-1 Lemmings 13:54
CD7-2 A Place To Survive 6:54
CD7-3 Lifetime 5:12
CD7-4 (In The) Black Room 11:43
CD7-5 Every Bloody Emperor 7:29
CD7-6 All That Before 7:44

CD8-1 Gog 7:25
CD8-2 Meurglys III, The Songwriter's Guild 15:55
CD8-3 The Sleepwalkers 11:04
CD8-4 Man-Erg 11:55
CD8-5 Scorched Earth 9:25

A Grounding In Numbers
CD9-1 Your Time Starts Now 4:14
CD9-2 Mathematics 3:38
CD9-3 Highly Strung 3:36
CD9-4 Red Baron 2:23
CD9-5 Bunsho 5:03
CD9-6 Snake Oil 5:20
CD9-7 Splink 2:37
CD9-8 Embarrassing Kid 3:07
CD9-9 Medusa 2:12
CD9-10 Mr. Sands 5:22
CD9-11 Smoke 2:30
CD9-12 5533 2:42
CD9-13 All Over The Place 6:04

ALT
CD10-1 Earlybird 4:01
CD10-2 Extractus 1:38
CD10-3 Sackbutt 1:53
CD10-4 Colossus 6:36
CD10-5 Batty Loop 1:14
CD10-6 Splendid 3:46
CD10-7 Repeat After Me 7:39
CD10-8 Elsewhere 4:19
CD10-9 Here's One I Made Earlier 5:42
CD10-10 Midnite Or So 3:34
CD10-11 D'Accord 2:28
CD10-12 Mackerel Ate Them 4:50
CD10-13 Tuesday, The Riff 2:47
CD10-14 Dronus 10:37

Merlin Atmos (Live Performances 2013) Merlin Atmos
CD11-1 Flight 21:30
CD11-2 Lifetime 5:10
CD11-3 All That Before 7:46
CD11-4 Bunsho 5:48
CD11-5 A Plague Of Lighthouse-Keepers 24:05
CD11-6 Gog 6:39

Bonus Atmos
CD12-1 Interference Patterns 4:28
CD12-2 Over The Hill 12:36
CD12-3 Your Time Starts Now 4:14
CD12-4 Scorched Earth 10:14
CD12-5 Meurglys III, The Songwriter's Guild 15:24
CD12-6 Man-Erg 11:40
CD12-7 Childlike Faith In Childhood's End 12:37

Do Not Disturb
CD13-1 Aloft 7:20
CD13-2 Alfa Berlina 6:40
CD13-3 Room 1210 6:47
CD13-4 Forever Falling 5:39
CD13-5 Shikata Ga Nai 2:29
CD13-6 (Oh No! I Must Have Said) Yes 7:44
CD13-7 Brought To Book 7:57
CD13-8 Almost The Words 7:54
CD13-9 Go 4:35

Live At The Paradiso (14:04:07)
DVD-1 Lemmings
DVD-2 A Place To Survive
DVD-3 Lifetime
DVD-4 (In The) Black Room
DVD-5 Every Bloody Emperor
DVD-6 All That Before
DVD-7 Gog
DVD-8 Meurglys III, The Songwriter's Guild
DVD-9 The Sleepwalkers
DVD-10 Man-Erg
DVD-11 Scorched Earth

Label: Esoteric Recordings 
Released: 2022