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A Jimi Hendrix box set featuring 38 unreleased tracks recorded in the months before his death is on the way
By Fraser Lewry,
2024-07-26
A new Jimi Hendrix box set is on the way, and this one features 39 tracks recorded by Hendrix at Electric Lady Studios in New York in the months before his death in September 1970.
All but one of the tracks on Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision – recorded with drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox, who'd replaced Noel Redding the previous year – are unreleased (full tracklist below). A video for the first track taken from the album, Angel [Take 7] has been released.
The box set is timed to coincide with the release of the documentary of the same name. Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision will premiere on August 9 at Quad Cinema in Manhattan, New York, and is followed by a general theatrical release . The film tells the story of Hendrix's iconic studio, a state-of-the-art facility built on the site of a dilapidated Manhattan nightclub.
“The construction of Electric Lady [Studios] was a nightmare,” says Hendrx's producer Eddie Kramer in a trailer released last week . “We were always running out of money. Poor Jimi had to go back out on the road, make some money, come back, then we could pay the crew.
“Late in ’69 we just hit a wall financially and the place just shut down. “He borrows against his future royalties, and we’re off to the races. [Jimi] would say to me, ‘Hey man, I want some of that purple on the wall, and green over there!’ We would start laughing about it. It was fun. We could make an atmosphere that he felt comfortable in.”
The Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision box set will be released on September 13 on five vinyl LPs or three CDs, while a Blu-ray disc (included in both versions) features newly mixed 5.1 audio versions of 20 previously released recordings.
“My brother had a musical vision,” says Hendrix's sister Janie. “With this project, it felt appropriate to shed light not only on his own music, but also on his lasting contribution of Electric Lady Studios. He was driven internally to build a home base where he could record everything he felt. While his life was cut short, so many other talented artists continue to express themselves within those magical walls on 52 West 8th Street."
Watch the video for Angel [Take 7] .
Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision tracklist
1) The Long Medley [Astro Man / Beginnings / Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) / Midnight Lightning (Keep On Groovin’) / Freedom]* 6/24/70
Vinyl Disc 3 1) Freedom [Alternate Version]* 7/19/70 2) Valleys Of Neptune [Demo]* 6/70 3) Tune X*/Just Came In [Take 6]* 7/22/70 4) Drifting [Alternate Version]* 8/20/70 5) Messing Around [Take 17]* 6/16/70
1) Tune X* / Just Came In (Take 8)* 7/22/70 2) Dolly Dagger [Alternate Version]* 7/19/70 3) Come Down Hard On Me [take 15]* 7/15/70 4) Heaven Has No Sorrow [Demo]* 6/70
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