MERRELL FANKHAUSER The Maui Album LP/'76 Hawaii/Melodic Psych Rock/Fapardokly/MU

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MERRELL FANKHAUSER 's/t' (aka "The Maui Album") LP (Spain, Out-Sider, Catalogue #OSR035) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2015 Out-Sider label LP edition of RARE 1976 album release of Fapardokly/H.M.S. Bounty/MU legend Merrell Fankhauser. Hawaiin lifestyle inspired mid-'70s Melodic Psychedelic Rock. Originally released in 1976 on the Maui Music Recording Co label.

(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)

After his stint with Fapardokly, H.M.S. Bounty and Mu, Merrell Fankhauser released his first solo album in 1976. Containing songs written a year earlier while Merrell and violin player Mary Lee were living in the jungle of Maui, this is a brilliant set of spiritual folk-rock and light orchestrated pop. The album was recorded at various Hollywood studios, initially sponsored by a producer from George Harrison's Dark Horse label. In fact, Harrison was so impressed with Merrell's songs that he expressed interest in playing slide guitar on "On Our Way to Hana." Sadly, due to internal problems, Dark Horse backed off and Merrell found himself without a label to release the album. Finally, a couple of friends from Maui released it on the small Maui Music label. On the recordings, Merrell and Mary Lee were joined by several studio musicians, among them drummer Bill Berg, who had played on Bob Dylan's Blood On the Tracks (1975). This reissue of Fankauser's self-titled debut, which has also been reissued as The Maui Album and Maui, features master tape sound, tracks restored to their original running order, original artwork, and an insert with in-depth liner notes by Jeremy Cargill (Ugly Things, Got Kinda Lost), presenting the most complete written story about Merrell's musical career. 

- Reissue of Merrell Fankhauser's 1976 self-titled solo debut (previously reissued as The Maui Album and Maui).
- A brilliant set of spiritual folk-rock and light orchestrated pop written in 1975 while Merrell and violin player Mary Lee were living in the jungle of Maui.
- Initially sponsored by a producer from George Harrison's Dark Horse label; Harrison was so impressed with Merrell's songs that he expressed interest in playing slide guitar on "On Our Way to Hana," but the backed off due to internal problems.
- Merrell and Mary Lee were joined by several studio musicians, among them drummer Bill Berg, who had played on Bob Dylan's Blood On the Tracks (1975).
- Features master tape sound, tracks restored to their original running order, original artwork, and an insert with in-depth liner notes by Jeremy Cargill (Ugly Things, Got Kinda Lost), presenting the most complete written story about Merrell's musical career.
- "It stands as a lost classic in Fankhauser's prolific catalog of work." --Jeremy Cargill (Ugly Things, Got Kinda Lost)
- "Great melodic '70s psych." --Patrick Lundborg (Acid Archives)

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

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