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The group released a couple of albums before a few of them wandered back to the U.S. to land in a more conventional rock group named Mountain Bus (and later renamed to SkyFarmer after they were not surprisingly sued by Leslie West and his Mountain crew).

None of the Mormos members were ever in Mountain Bus. We joined Skyfarmer. (It’s a totally different topic, but Mountain never actually won a lawsuit, but you can read about that elsewhere. It had nothing to do with Mormos.)

The music on this, Mormos’ second and final album, is a mildly interesting blend of acoustic folk, inevitable mellow psych influences, and some pretty odd vocals. Annie Hat (now Ann Lindquist) plays flute and provides plead vocals, 

No, Annie Hat (Williams) and Ann Lindquist are two different people. Ms Lindquist appeared on a Skyfarmer single, but that is not relevant to Mormos. Additionally, Annie Hat plays bass (not flute) and provides lead vocals. (Ernie Mansfield was the flute player.)

=========== Updates, December 2023 by Ernie Mansfield, member of MORMOS ==============

MORMOS was formed by a group of American musicians in the 1970s. Led by Jim Cuomo, they emigrated from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), to Paris, France, where they were awarded a recording contract on CBS. Prior to this, Jim Cuomo had worked with John Cage; had already toured Russia with the Illinois Jazz Band; had led an electric psychedelic/electronic rock band, SPOILS OF WAR; and had been music director of the avant-garde LaMaMa Theatre in NYC. Collectively, all the musicians had backgrounds in classical, folk, jazz, and rock. MORMOS ended up being labelled as “psychedelic folk”, since they were an acoustic group, but with trippy lyrics, and a lot of improvisation. No two performances were ever the same, as you will hear in these recordings, if you already own the studio albums!

MORMOS had two albums and two singles on CBS. But these “live” live recordings of the 70’s from “Live at le Chat Ecarlate” album (published on Bandcamp in 2022) have never been released before. And although they are not as pristine as studio recordings (you can hear audience noises), they capture the true spirit of the group. Additionally, there are new songs never released before. I hope you enjoy them!

The other members of the group include Elliott Delman, Annie Hat, Ernie Mansfield, and Sandy Spencer. Previous to departing for Paris, Elliott and Ernie had recorded with Dan Fogelberg, a fellow Illinois colleague. Annie Hat had been lead singer with SPOILS OF WAR, and HEAD EAST.

MORMOS were active from 1971 to 1973 (although there were occasional re-unions over the years).

After MORMOS, Jim continued a solo career in Paris, becoming a sought-after session musician and performer. Elliott, Annie, and Ernie later went on to play with the SKYFARMER band in Chicago, and later, they formed “Rokko and the Hat” ROKKO AND THE HAT (minus Ernie who moved to San Francisco). Elliott was also accompanist for Bonnie Koloc for many years. Ernie later became a session musician in the San Francisco area, and also released several albums on Windsailor Music.

Dan Fogelberg’s album “Live at Carnegie Hall" (recorded in 1979 and posthumously released by Netherlands Records in 2017) contained a song "Plastered in Paris" written by Elliott Delman (the MORMOS guitarist and singer). Dan begins the song with a long, humorous monolog, describing the MORMOS:

“This is a song that a very dear friend of mine wrote - his name is Elliott Delman - he’s a very funny man . . . Elliott used to play in a band called Mormos . . . and lived in Paris, France, for a while . . . and had a very unusual group of musicians in it . . . this lady who played the cello, some said she was the “Jimi Hendrix” of the cello . . “