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,…

Roy Behrens—a retired professor of Graphic Design at the University of Northern Iowa and published author on the topic of Dazzle Ships (among other things)—has recently published an article about his pen-pal relationship with Eden Ahbez in the early 1960s in the most recent issue of the Iowa Source magazine. (Read it here.) For those…

The November 3rd episode of the Qwasa Qwasa radio show (out of London) is being dedicated to Eden Ahbez. It will be hosted by DJ Levi Adriaenssens and will air from 12 to 2 CET on Threads Radio: https://threadsradio.com/ The show will be uploaded on Mixcloud afterwards (see here). Below is the press release description: Together…

“Dharmaland,” the collection of music written by Eden Ahbez in 1961-63 (in the immediate aftermath of “Eden’s Island”), but left in sheet music form by the composer during his lifetime, has been recorded by Swedish exotica quintet Ìxtahuele. The sessions for the LP began in July 2019 and ran through early 2020 and included guest…

It is with great pride that myself and Full Moon Films, the production company behind the Eden Ahbez documentary “As the Wind,” announce that we have been awarded the 2020 Kenneth Karmiole Research Fellowship grant. Besides being a great honor, we are excited to use the funds from this grant to do additional research on…