Merkin Manor - Music From

Location: Provo
Year: 1981
Label: Windi
Catalog Number: WLPS-1003B

Style: Psychedelic Rock, Pop Rock

A somewhat legendary album within the psychedelic collector crowd. It’s not as far out as the cover claims but after hearing it, you’ll start to feel the vacant stares of artists on the cover looking back at you. The music is somber and mysterious and it’s hard to really see where these guys were coming from. Were they really as lonely as their music sounds?

Originally from Orem, the band was somehow picked up by Windi Records and sent out to California to record this album in their studio. Windi also put out other grail records such as Creation of Sunlight. 

The information on the back cover shares the bands cheeky aspirations of making ‘merkin’ a household word. Contrarily, I think the name pushed them deeper into the underground and will keep them forever obscured in mystery.