"Eden's Island", as far as I'm concerned, is one of the mellowest records ever... jazz tinged exotica which recalls Martin Denny and Les Baxter, yet the poetic declarations and mysterious signs along the highway remind me more of Moondog. Wooden flutes, creaky boats in a rainstorm, sounds from the wilderness, birds, crashing piano chords.
In the first season of the FX series "Fargo", there's a scene that is couched in the song "Full Moon", which is track six on "Eden's Island." There's a montage of stills from the series playing the song in the background on YouTube, but it's not the actual scene. Bugger.
Of course, we also know that he wrote the song "Nature Boy" in the 1940s, later covered by Nat King Cole. It's not on the album, which has stood the test of the ages without it's addition. Maybe some boutique label in the near future will re-release "Eden's Island" including Cole's hit song and (OH BOY!!!) "outtakes" driving it into the ground even further.
Here's the full album someone posted on YouTube a while ago.
Here is our man decades later as nomadic yogi mystic Ahbe, being interviewed in 1992.
"Dream the dream that the dreamers dream."
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