Happy The Man - Happy the Man (Remastered) (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Digitally remastered by Ray Staff and accompanied by newly written 6000-word liner-notes by Syd Schwartz in a 28-page color booklet. Ranked as one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s 50 greatest progressive rock albums of all time.

“Masters the band can finally be proud of; this is the way these two albums were always intended to sound” – Happy The Man

Happy the Man’s self-titled debut, released in 1977 on Arista Records, is one of the most fully realized progressive rock albums ever recorded on American soil. It was neither a direct response to its British forebears nor an attempt to fit within the evolving commercial American landscape. Instead, it was something rarer - a singular work of progressive music that existed entirely on its own terms. Though they wouldn’t know it at the time, Happy the Man also became the bar against which nearly all-American prog rock would be measured in the decades that followed.

Their sound wasn’t just symphonic - it was cinematic, sophisticated, and distinctly American, weaving jazz fusion and impressionistic harmony into prog rock’s DNA. Eschewing mythic storytelling and grandiose concepts, their primarily instrumental music instead unfolded like a rich tapestry of harmonies and interwoven melodies, shifting with the same organic unpredictability as a jazz improvisation yet executed with the precision of a chamber ensemble. The music was both cerebral and joyous, technically demanding yet full of human warmth.

TRACKLIST

1. Happy The Man - Starborne (2025 Remaster)
2. Happy The Man - Stumpy Meets the Firecracker in Stencil Forest (2025 Remaster)
3. Happy The Man - Upon the Rainbow (Befrost) (2025 Remaster)
4. Happy The Man - Mr. Mirror's Reflection on Dreams (2025 Remaster)
5. Happy The Man - Carousel (2025 Remaster)
6. Happy The Man - Knee Bitten Nymphs in Limbo (2025 Remaster)
7. Happy The Man - On Time as a Helix of Precious Laughs (2025 Remaster)
8. Happy The Man - Hidden Moods (2025 Remaster)
9. Happy The Man - New York Dream's Suite (2025 Remaster)



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