Eden's Island (The music of an enchanted isle), by Eden Ahbez

Eden's Island (The music of an enchanted isle)

by Eden Ahbez

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- Carefully restored and remastered by prolific grammy nominated sound engineer Jessica Thompson
- Gatefold double vinyl in limited editions of various vinyl colours with a 12“ size 24 pages strong booklet with unseen images and information

Includes unlimited streaming of Eden's Island (The music of an enchanted isle) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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- Carefully restored and remastered by prolific Grammy-nominated sound engineer Jessica Thompson
- Gatefold double vinyl in limited editions of various vinyl colours with a 12“ size 24 pages strong booklet with unseen images and information

Includes unlimited streaming of Eden's Island (The music of an enchanted isle) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Wooden Cover Slider LP edition: 2LP in wooden cover with 24pp booklet, clear forest/leaves splatter vinyl.

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Wooden Box edition: 2LP in wooden box with 24pp booklet, multicoloured forest/leaves vinyl, with exclusive t-shirt, slipmat and poster.

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- Carefully restored and remastered by prolific Grammy-nominated sound engineer Jessica Thompson
- Double CD with booklet

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	1.	Eden's Island 02:12
	2.	The Wanderer 03:42
	3.	Myna Bird 02:19
	4.	Eden's Cove 02:42
	5.	Tradewind 03:01
	6.	Full Moon 02:57
	7.	Mongoose 01:47
	8.	Market Place 02:25
	9.	Banana Boy 02:47
	10.	The Old Boat 02:32
	11.	Island Girl 02:14
	12.	La Mar 02:49
	13.	Surf Rider (unreleased track) 02:39
	14.	Tobago (45 rpm single version) 02:24
	15.	The Wanderer (alternate version) 01:25
	16.	Song Of The Fool 02:35
	17.	India (Demo) 02:24
	18.	The Planet Song 02:54
	19.	Hey Jacque 02:16
	20.	The Shepherd 03:13
	21.	End Of Desire 02:54
	22.	Frankie's Song 02:29
	23.	Jungle Bungalow (overdub session) 02:20
	24.	Sahara 02:34
	25.	Yes Master! 01:57
	26.	Ahbe Casabe 02:43
	27.	Lonely Island 01:46
	28.	Big Rock Steam Roller 02:19
	29.	Big Square From Nowhere 03:14
	30.	Green Flamingo 02:39
	31.	Monterey (alternate version) 02:43
	32.	Jam Session '78 01:33
	33.	Silence (unreleased track) 03:06

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* The ultimate reissue of one of the world’s most important albums in the field of Exotica, Jazz and even Proto Psychedelic Music from 1960!
* This reissue of Eden Ahbez' sole album includes 20 almost unreleased bonus songs from different sessions.
* Carefully remastered by prolific grammy nominated sound engineer Jessica Thompson
* The artist Eden Ahbez was not only a skilled composer and performer who wrote the hit tune „Nature boy“ for the classic 1940s crooner Nat King Cole but also a forefather and probably the sole inventor of the hippie lifestyle that became a world wide movement by the mid 1960s
* Supported by movie maker and historian Brian Chidester, who now, after 20 years of research, completed the full time documentary movie „As The Wind - The Enchanted Life Of Eden Ahbez“: www.edenahbez.com
* Gatefold double vinyl in limited editions of various vinyl colours and wooden boxset editions with a 12“ size 24 pages strong booklet with unseen images and information
* Double CD with booklet
* This will remain the only ever double album reissue of this masterpiece

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Now here we go with a project that can easily be labeled a mammoth. Who remembers Eden Ahbez actually, except for a couple of born too late retro hippies? Well, here we go with the story:
It is 1960, Rock’n’Roll has just lost a couple of its protagonists during this and the previous year, the time of the great balladeers has just begun, but soon will run out due to the new and exciting beat invasion. In US mainstream the tiki culture has reached a certain peak and is about to collapse, but still goes strong and with it comes the so called “exotica” music, a crossover between smooth jazz and swing, Latin grooves, haunting melodies that are rooted in the folkloristic sounds from different parts of this world, plus weird sound effects that often create a spooky jungle or dreamy island beach atmosphere. It can even bend your mind that far you would see palm trees growing out of your speakers and witness monkeys and parrots having fun in your room. Eden Ahbez, born in 1908, passed in 1995, a man living dropout and hippie lifestyle way before the movement became what people remember it to be in the mid 60s, a beat poet and composer who wrote the hit tune “Nature boy” that gave Nat King Cole his first big success in 1948, approaches the field of exotica music from a different point of view creating an epic concept album about an utopian society living in peace and harmony on an island far away from the modern western world as we know it. And indeed we find many trademarks of the prototypical exotica music beginning with this relaxed groove combining easy listening swing and Latin patterns, peaceful, dreamy and even transcendental vocal melodies, tinges of folk music from around the world including powerful dances and a whole color palette of mind expanding sounds giving the whole music an even greater depth and width. The latter being created entirely with real instruments such as Eden Ahbez' wood-flute. Some tunes are rather gentle and relaxed with the lyrics being narrated, which adds much to the epic feel of the album. Since this is a really unique effort, now „Eden’s Island“ alone is a masterpiece of proto psychedelic music and showcases the peak of Ahbe’s creativity, but he did write and record music before and after, as mentioned above. And he inspired people along the way, he still does, even decades after his passing. When a young record collector named Brian Chidester found a picture of Ahbe with a youthful Brian Wilson of BEACH BOYS fame dating from probably 1967, he felt the urge to research and investigate deeply into the life of Ahbe, who was more of a mystical figure, obscured by the passing of time rather than the fairly well recognised allfather of the hippie lifestyle, without whom there would have not been such a movement at all and certainly no woodstock, not much psychedelic music and no such things. At least not in the way that they did happen. So Mr. Chidester embarked on journey of more than twenty years that culminates in a movie, „As the wind: The enchanted life of Eden Ahbez“, telling the story of one of pop culture’s most enigmatic figures in full. Brian Chidester and his filmmaking partner John Winer now have not only gone wild in bringing the life of the first of all hippies to a wider attention, they have taken part in what is the main subject of my writing here, the ultimate rerelease of Eden Ahbez‘ first and only cult full length record, 1960’s „Eden’s Island (The music of an enchanted isle)“ as I already described above in nearly all it’s glory. For it was only half of what this ultimate edition has to offer. First of all the album has been carefully remastered by grammy nominated sound engineer Jessica Thompson, an icon in the field of restoring and remastering old and often obscure yet cult recordings from Jazz to Punk to Afro Beat and great fan of Eden Ahbez. Jessica has done another mavellous job and probably this could become one of her most prolific and important ventures. The other half of the music on this reissue, which comes as a wicked double vinyl in gatefold sleeve in limited editions of different colours, is made up by those tunes hat Eden never properly put on albums, that remained in obscurity unbeknownst by man until today. Jessica Thompson also did the mastering here and Brian Chidester supported this treasure trove of musical jewelry, which expands Eden Ahbez‘ epic concept album style and also showcases his skills in writing accessible, yet unique proto psychedelic pop tunes that, as I mentioned above, lead your mind into a different world. The vinyl version includes a 12“ size, 24 page booklet, while the CD version comes as double CD with 2 booklets. With so much passion put into the ultimate reissue of this album you can bet that the music world, the collectors and 60s music freaks, will be shaken to its foundations.

Eden Ahbez“:

www.edenahbez.com/about-the-film

„As The Wind“ – trailer 1:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ae_El45D8

„As The Wind“ – trailer 2:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IbHQT2PSaU

"As The Wind“ – trailer 3:
vimeo.com/608793921

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