UUSI JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE AXIS BOLD AS LOVE CD (97) EI PK

The Jimi Hendrix Experience:

Axis: Bold As Love CD

(MCA 1997) UUSI

Levyn mukana 24-sivuinen vihkonen
Alkuperäinen julkaisu:  1967
Remasteroitu uudelleenjulkaisu:  1997

    * * * Experience Hendrix * * *

Authorized release by The Hendrix Fami-
ly. Remastered from the Original Master
Tapes. 24-page booklet

Jimi Hendrix's second album followed up
his groundbreaking debut effort with a so-
lid collection of great tunes and great in-
teractive playing between himself, Noel
Redding Mitch Mitchell and the recording
studio itself. Wisely retaining manager
Chas Chandler to produce the album and
Eddie Kramer as engineer Hendrix stretc-
hed further musically than the first album,
but even more so as a songwriter.He was
still quite capable of coming up with spacy
rockers like "You Got Me Floating," "Up
from the Skies," and "Little Miss Lover,"
radio-ready to follow on the commercial
heels of "Foxey Lady" and "Purple Haze."
But the beautiful, wistful ballads "Little
Wing," "Castles Made of Sand" "One Rai-
ny Wish" and the title track set closer
show remarkable growth and depth as a
tunesmith harnessing Curtis Mayfield soul
guitar to Dylanesque lyrical imagery and
Fuzz Face hyperactivity to produce yet
another side to his grand psychedelic mu-
sical vision. These are tempered with Ji-
mi's most avant-garde tracks yet, "EXP"
and the proto-fusion jazz blowout of "If 6
Was 9."

01. EXP  1:55
02. Up From The Skies  2:55
03. Spanish Castle Magic  3:00

One of Jimi Hendrix's finest original early
songs, "Spanish Castle Magic" is indeed
an amazing, magical piece of alchemy.
Utilizing a fabulous and devastating guitar
riff, Hendrix builds the song from there,
with a proto-heavy metal chord progres-
sion that is truly effective, and in this way,
the song is sort of "son of" his early clas-
sic, "Foxy Lady." Lyrically, it's a bit of well-
structured psychedelic fantasy, utilizing a
geographic area to help make its point.
Aside from the definitive version on Axis:
Bold As Love, there is an exquisite, alter-
nate version available on the box set The
Jimi Hendrix Experience.

04. Wait Until Tomorrow  3:00
05. Ain't No Telling  1:46
06. Little Wing  2:24

Little Wing - Behind The Scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENXDNjROZSM

Despite Jimi Hendrix's well-deserved re-
putation as an electric guitar pioneer, the-
re is little doubt that he was also capable
of masterful melodies, and "Little Wing"
is perhaps his finest.A gentle soulful
chord progression, based on an E minor
to D major shift, guides the melody and is
an accurate mirror of the title and lyrics.
Ostensibly a tender love song, Hendrix
conveys these emotions in a bittersweet
way that juxtaposes his stance as a hard
rocker. Instrumentally, it's also a fabulous
vehicle for his jazzy/psychedelic guitar
work, as well as Mitch Mitchell's jazz-in-
spired drumming. Easily one of the high-
lights of his second album (Axis: Bold As
Love) a terrific instrumental alternate ver-
sion (first take) is now available on The
Jimi Hendrix Experience box set. Stevie
Ray Vaughan (a true Hendrix disciple) re-
corded an exquisite version in the late
'80s.

07. If 6 Was 9   5:32
08. You Got Me Floatin'  2:45
09. Castles Made Of Sand  2:46
10. She's So Fine  2:37
11. One Rainy Wish  3:40
12. Little Miss Lover  2:20
13. Bold As Love  4:09

If there ever was a song for the heady
1967 rock period that could be termed
psychedelic, it surely must be this mas-
terful ballad. Closing out Jimi Hendrix's
brilliant Axis: Bold As Love, this, the title
track, utilizes a unique lyrical metaphor:
Hendrix uses color association to define
mood and mood swings. Musically, the
song is equally striking, being a wedding
of psychedelic rock and Curtis Mayfield-
inspired soul. Filled with octave-soaked
chord changes and some devastating so-
los from Hendrix it's easily one of the best
performed songs on the album. An ama-
zing, early instrumental version is now a-
vailable on the box set The Jimi Hendrix
Experience.

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1997

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