Mu

Mu was founded in 1969 in Los Angeles, CA, by [a=Merrell Fankhauser] and [a=Jeff Cotton]. The two had previously played together in [a=Merrell & The Exiles].

Cotton had just left Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, after participating on two records (the second of which being [m=463963]). In 1971, Mu's eponymous debut album was released and became a radio hit. Increasingly fascinated by legends of the lost continent of Mu, Fankhauser then relocated to the Hawaiian island of Maui in February 1973. Material for a second Mu album was recorded in Maui in 1974, but not released until the 1980s on two LPs: "The Last Album" (1981) and "Children Of The Rainbow" (1985).

Mu disbanded in 1975.