Monday, 28 December 2020

The Jimi Hendrix Experience — First Rays Of The New Rising Sun (1969)

Despite the title I've given this collection, this isn't my attempt at reconstructing Hendrix's unfinished fourth studio album, but instead a collection of Electric Ladyland era recordings. This album's songs date from spring 1968 to the summer of 1969, approximately when the Experience broke up. None of them were officially released during Hendrix's lifetime, and includes just 8 songs, but there's a few longer tracks making for a good 40 minutes. I included the instrumentals "South Saturn Delta", since it includes a horn section, having a polished feel to it, and "New Rising Sun", which Hendrix recorded essentially solo, doing all the instruments himself, and thus putting a lot of work into. For the cover, I've used an international (french?) cover from Electric Ladyland, since without the text, it's still pretty cool and isn't the now standard US cover for that album. 

Sources for the tracks

  • Valleys of Neptune (Ships Passing in the Night)
  • South Saturn Delta (South Saturn Delta, Look Over Yonder)
  • West Coast Seattle Boy (Shame, Shame, Shame; New Rising Sun; Hear My Freedom; )
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience [Purple Box] (Gloria)
  • Both Sides of the Sky (The Things I Used To Do)

Side One: (21:53)

  1. Ships Passing in the Night 5:52
  2. Shame, Shame, Shame 3:01
  3. South Saturn Delta 4:07
  4. Gloria 8:53
Side Two: (18:20)
  1. Look Over Yonder 3:24
  2. Hear My Freedom 3:51
  3. Things I Used To Do 3:41
  4. New Rising Sun 7:24

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