Name: Wild Boy - The Lost Songs Of Eden Ahbez
Brand: Eden Ahbez

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

EVERLANDPSYCH015LP

Colour

Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-03-17

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Forte

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Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

8016670145356

Total Cap

Black LP

Artist

Eden Ahbez

Genre GB

Easy Listening / Exotica

Label GB

Everland

Eden Ahbez (1908-1995) was an influential American songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s-1960s. His unique lifestyle in California had a profound impact on the hippie movement, earning him the nickname "ahbe" among friends. Ahbez's most notable achievement was composing the iconic song "Nature Boy," which topped the charts for eight weeks in 1948 by Nat "King" Cole and has since become a beloved pop and jazz standard.

Wild Boy … is a reissue of the well-known 2016 release curated by Brian Chidester, renowned researcher and biographer of Eden ahbez. Especially for this album, Brian wrote an interesting text about Ahbez's life, which definitely became the decoration of the release. With the new 2023 re-release, we went a little further and kept what is commonly referred to as studio cuts. It’s a few more minutes in the studio with Ahbez himself, full of emotion and life. In addition, to the delight of fans, the edition includes an additional composition Nature Boy (Mantovani Orchestra). Especially, it is worth noting the outstanding mastering prepared from practically decomposed tapes by the Grammy-nominated Jessica Thompson, which guarantees the deepest and warmth possible sound.

Eden Ahbez is definitely at the origin of psychedelic music and this release can be taken as further proof. Over the past twenty years, the iconic figure of the world's first hippie Eden Ahbez has become famous primarily for his 1948 song "Nature Boy", praising universal love, and his amazingly solo album from the 1960s called Eden's Island - one from the first concept albums in the history of music and probably the first psychedelic music album. Wild Boy: The Lost Songs Of Eden Ahbez deepens understanding of the origins of the psychedelic movement in the 1950s. The disc contains a musical selection of works by Eden ahbez himself, written by him in the period after Nature Boy. The inclusion of songs such as "Palm Springs" - Ray Anthony Orchestra and "Hey Jacques" by Ertha Kitt gives the listener the chance to discover for the first time the little-known recordings of world-famous artists composed by Eden Ahbez.

Wild Boy - The Lost Songs Of Eden Ahbez

Music GB