Name: Eden's Island
Brand: Eden Ahbez

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

JASMCD2720

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-03-05

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

604988272024

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Eden Ahbez

Genre GB

Easy Listening / Exotica

Label GB

Jasmine

Widely perceived as California's prototype Hippie, the enigmatic, eternally-cool Eden Ahbez was an occasional songwriter and musician, who suddenly shot to fame in 1948 when Nat King Cole topped the US charts with "Nature Boy", a song he'd written a year or so earlier. He subsequently became a cult figure, who continued to write and produce, sporadically, in a wide range of musical styles, throughout the 1950s. In 1960 he recorded a one-off LP, 'Eden's Island', which juxtaposed beatnik poetry with Exotica, and has gone on to become regarded as a benchmark album of the Exotica genre. <br> <br>This unique compilation reissues the LP, plus a non-album B-side and an outtake, alongside sixteen further bonus tracks of other artists singing/playing his songs, including Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Eartha Kitt, Frankie Laine, Sam Cooke, etc. It hardly needs adding that some serious rarities are contained herein, which have never previously appeared on CD.

Eden's Island

Music GB