Post #12675 by hanford_lemoore on Sun, Nov 3, 2002 9:32 PM

On 2002-11-01 20:44, Chongolio wrote:
Hey Hanford, I was just checking out tikicentral.com and saw that you too are an Eden Ahbez fan.

I LOVE Eden's Island. Hands down my favorite Exotica recording ever.

Do you ( or anybody else) know if there is any other releases by him or do we have to be happy with the one disk from Dionysus?

Well, he wrote "Nature boy" although I have not heard of a recording by him. I have heard/read something about his "Island suite" or "Nature suite", which was recorded before Eden's Island. I don't think it's on CD at all.

The only other Abhez recording that I know of and have is "Tobago", which is an instrumental version of the "Eden's Island" theme. It was the b-side to "The old boat" 45. The reed instrument/shell sound heard at the beginning of "Eden's Island" is used to replace the vocal track throughout "Tobago". Added in is the sounds of the surf through a flanger, so you get this weird flange effect through the whole song.

If anyone tracks down anything else by Eden (CD or otherwise) please let us know!

Hanford