Fapardokly

In the realm of 1960s rock rarities, Fapardokly long puzzled collectors as an apparent mystery act, yet no such ensemble ever existed. The dozen tracks comprising their lone self-titled release originated instead with Merrell & the Exiles, a Southern California outfit led by cult folk-rock figure Merrell Fankhauser. Before shifting toward psychedelia and evolving into H.M.S. Bounty, the band issued multiple singles on the small Glenn imprint. UIP, an equally modest concern, later compiled several of those Glenn sides, supplemented them with additional psychedelic material cut by Fankhauser and his musicians, and issued the collection under the Fapardokly name. Although the songs were never conceived or tracked as a cohesive project, the album endures as a notable lost folk-rock artifact of the decade. Fankhauser continued producing further obscure yet noteworthy recordings, first with H.M.S. Bounty during the late 1960s and subsequently with Mu in the early 1970s.