Eden Ahbez Eden's Island: The Music Of An Enchanted Isle (Extended Edition) 2LP (Green & Yellow Vinyl)

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's sole album includes 20 bonus songs from different sessions. Carefully restored and remastered from the original master tapes 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 worldwide movement by the mid-1960s.

The original album comprises only a third of what this ultimate edition has to offer. First of all, the album has been carefully restored and newly mastered from the original master tapes, while all other previous reissues were transcriptions from old and beaten vinyl records. 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 Afrobeat and great fan of Eden Ahbez, has done another marvelous job. This could become her most prolific and important venture.

The other two thirds of the music on this reissue is made up by those tunes that Eden never properly put on albums and that remained in obscurity until today. Jessica Thompson also did the mastering here and Brian Chidester co-produced this treasure trove of musical jewelry, which expands Eden Ahbez's epic concept album style and also showcases his skills in writing accessible yet unique proto-psychedelic pop tunes that lead your mind into a different world.

The vinyl version includes a LP-size, 24-page booklet. With so much passion put into the ultimate reissue of this album you can bet that the music world will be shaken to its foundations.