Chance meeting on an enchanted isle of a nature boy and a jazz singer
The "Nature Boy" was born today in 1908.
Eden Ahbez was a proto-hippie, the Platonic form... working at a health food store, a raw food restaurant, playing music and writing songs, practicing Eastern religion and mysticism, not eating meat, wearing robes, his long hair with a beard, living outdoors (at times under the first "L" in the HOLLYWOOD sign in Los Angeles, or in a cave in Palm Springs), eschewing material goods and conservative values in favour of peace and love.
Except this was the 1940s.
Here is an interview with Swedish band Ìxtahuele, whose album "Eden Ahbez's Dharmaland" was produced in 2021 from a never-recorded score from the early 1960s. Keeping the Exotica spirit alive!
https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2021/10/ixtahuele-interview.html
| Market Place Eden Ahbez - Eden's Island (The Music Of An Enchanted Isle) - Del-Fi - 1960 |
| Full Moon Eden Ahbez - Eden's Island (The Music Of An Enchanted Isle) - Del-Fi - 1960 |
| Ahbe Casabe Marti Barris - (single) - Keen - 1958 |
| Wild Boy Rocky Holman with Morty Wise & The Wisemen - (single) - Sierra - 1959 |
| Lonely Island Sam Cooke - (single) - Keen - 1958 |
| Tradewind Eden Ahbez - Eden's Island (The Music Of An Enchanted Isle) - Del-Fi - 1960 |
| Manna Ìxtahuele feat. Kadja Bonet (Ixtahuele) - Eden Ahbez's Dharmaland - Subliminal Sounds - 2021 |
| Nature Boy Nat King Cole - (single) - Capitol - 1948 |
| Eden's Island Arthur Lyman - Blowin' In The Wind - HiFi - 1964 |
| The Old Boat Eden Ahbez - Eden's Island (The Music Of An Enchanted Isle) - Del-Fi - 1960 |
| Hey Jacque Eartha Kitt - Down To Eartha - RCA Victor - 1955 |
| Tobago Eden Ahbez - (single) - Del-Fi - 1960 |
| Surfer John Nature Boy & Friends - (single) - Bertram International - 1965 |
| Myna Bird Eden Ahbez - Eden's Island (The Music Of An Enchanted Isle) - Del-Fi - 1960 |
| Overcomers Of The World Eden Ahbez and John Harris - Wild Boy (The Lost Songs Of Eden Ahbez) - Bear Family - 2016 (rec. circa mid-1960s) |
| Yes Master Don Carson And The Casuals - (single) - Bertram International - 1959 |
| Surf Rider Eden Ahbez - Eden's Island - Del-Fi - 1960 |
| Zen Bob Romeo And The Jungle Sextet - Aphrodisia - Sunset - 1956 |
| Nature Boy Eden Ahbez - |
| Dharmaland Pt. I and II Ìxtahuele (Ixtahuele) - Eden Ahbez's Dharmaland - Subliminal Sounds - 2021 |
| La Mar (La Mer) Eden Ahbez - Eden's Island (The Music Of An Enchanted Isle) - Del-Fi - 1960 |
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1:48 AM, April 14th, 2022