Love for Eden Ahbez’s imaginary landscape Eden’s Island continues with the incredible installation and tribute album described in the press release below. Here is also the link to purchase the LP: https://www.escho.net/shop/peter-peter-mermaid-bay Christian Friedländer is the exhibition designer of Coastal Imaginaries at the Danish pavilion at this year’s Biennale Architettura di Venezia. He is also…

The Eden’s Island Blog received a press release today from the law office of Julie Romersa, representing Joe Romersa, the last collaborator of Eden Ahbez. For those not already familiar, Romersa worked with the “Nature Boy” composer from roughly 1987-1995, on a project Ahbez called “The Scripture of the Golden Age.” Romersa, via his lawyer,…

“Manna” is the first single from the forthcoming album, “Eden Ahbez’s Dharmaland,” due July 11, 2021. The link is here: “Dharmaland,” arranged and performed by Ìxtahuele, is the first-ever recording of this long-lost masterwork by the original hippie composer of “Nature Boy” and “Eden’s Island.” Resurrected from Ahbez’s unrecorded sheet music, c. 1961-63, Ìxtahuele has…

J. William Lloyd was a late 19th/early 20th century radical American author. His subjects included theosophy, anti-statism, anarchy, holistic diets, and a back-to-nature lifestyle. Among other published tomes, he wrote “The Scripture of the Serene Life” (1921) and “The Natural Man: A Romance of the Golden Age” (1902), which together influenced Eden Ahbez’s final project,…