Little wing, and wild thang!
The late, great, Jimi Hendrix only released three original albums during his way too short 27 years on the planet. But on March 9, we will get another chance to savour them.
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Those 1967-1970 iconic offerings, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold As Love, and the double LP Electric Ladyland, plus later live and compilation releases have been available over the past four decades in many formats in varying degrees of audio fidelity.-
Due to previous legal infighting within the Hendrix heirs, some of the material was worthwhile, and some was marginal to say the least.
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But now, in the 40th year since Jimi's death, all the ownership stars are aligned, and Experience Hendrix-now the only official Hendrix hay-day music product peddlers-is releasing a batch of CDs that promise to be the "best" sounding since they were made to tape.
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Jimi's original recording engineer, Eddie Kramer has gone back to the best quality master tapes available, aw well in some instances, the individual multi-reel recordings, to 60s Hendrix worthy of 21st century technology.
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Jimi's original recording engineer, Eddie Kramer has gone back to the best quality master tapes available, aw well in some instances, the individual multi-reel recordings, to 60s Hendrix worthy of 21st century technology.
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And the mining of those tape archives will also lead to the first "new," or heretofore unreleased Hendrix in some ten years, entitled Valleys of Neptune, a 10 track recording that Jimi was well underway with at the time of his death.
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The newest version of that planned 4th LP by Hendrix does contain some recent adds and over-dubs-something that many posthumus Hendrix recording have been criticized for-but according to Kramer the tone and theme of the originals have not been altered.
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The style of Valleys of Neptune is a sort of less funkified Band of Gypsys sound, embracing the blues, while style unmistakably Hendrix, overall.
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A smoker of a go at Sunshine of Your Love is a stand-out, as well.
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Experience Hendrix claims that there are about 10 years worth of unreleased material-studio and live-that is available for release, but the timetable was not spelled out.
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Also in the works is an anthology-type box-set of Hendrix rarities, plus remastered issues of Monterrey, Atlanta Pop Festival on CD and the Woodstock DVD will be out March 9.
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As well, the first 3 Hendrix masterpieces will contain a "making of" mini-doc DVD and expanded liner notes and many unseen pics.
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Can't wait to once again move over rover, and let Jimi take over.
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As of this writing, here are the only audio samples of the 12 tracks of Valleys of Neptune:
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