Mermen
Great American Music Hall
San Francisco, CA
2026-03-08


Source1: Nevaton MC59/W > MixPre-6 II (32/96) (recorded from the stage lip, ~6 feet from the band, ORTF)
Source2: AKG C414 XLS (omni) > MixPre-6 II (32/96) (recorded from the stage lip, 20 feet apart, ~6 feet from the band)
Source3: Austrian Audio CC8 > MixPre-3 II (32/96) (recorded from the stage lip, ~6 feet from the band, XY)
Lineage MixPre-6 II and MixPre-3 II > SD > WAV (32/96) > Wavelab 11 Pro (amplify, mastering, tracks) > FLAC (24-bit)
Taped by captainentropy
Transferred by captainentropy

Note1: This is a stage lip recording.
Note2: The band's microphones are routed through the PA only, they didn't have their own stage speakers unlike the instruments, hence they sound very distant when speaking.
Note3: There is a very loud person next to my mics at the stage "howling" (ululating) after every song. I used Spectral Editor in iZotope RX 10 Advanced to reduce this as much as possible without impacting the overall quality of the recording. I left it in on one long gap between songs because Martyn Jones commented on it.

1. Intro Jam A >
2. You Should Have Been Here Yesterday
3. Be My Noir
4. Into The West
5. Sponge Cookie
6. The Intractable Boy
7. <chatting - birthday wishes>
8. Bound For A Star With Fiery Oceans
9. <tuning1>
10. Varykino Snow
11. <tuning2>
12. With No Definite Future And No Purpose Other Than To Prevail Somehow...
13. Scalp Salad
14. <chatting2>
15. Raglan
16. My Black Bag >
17. <intermission>
18. Intro Jam B >
19. Casbah - America
20. <annoying howling>
21. Trapeze
22. Drivin The Cow
23. <chatting-about-tuning>
24. Flowing Past Distant Suns On The Way To Forever
25. <chatting3>
26. Islands
27. <tuning3>
28. Somewhere Sometime
29. The Goodbye
30. <tuning4>
31. Honeybomb >
32. Pull Of The Moon


Total time = 03hrs 21min
Set 1: 1hr 18min
Set 2: 1hr 29min

This was a release party show for their studio release "Akwa Mmiri".

Poster art by Denise Halbe.

The Mermen are:
Jim Thomas - guitar
Jennifer Burnes - bass
Martyn Jones - drums



