Electric Ladyland - Remastered

Psychodelia / Experimental Rock
premiera polska: 2012-08-16
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: plastikowe etui
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Trzeci i ostatni album studyjny Jimiego Hendrixa, Electric Ladyland, jest uznawany za jeden z najbardziej przełomowych w historii rocka.
Ten album wstrząsnął całym światem i zbulwersował nawet samego Jimiego Hendrixa zdjęciem nagich kobiet na okładce.
Na płycie znalazły się m.in. takie kompozycje jak: „…And The Gods Made Love” z połamanymi rytmami perkusji, taśmą odtwarzaną od tyłu i zniekształconym wokalem. Doskonała kołysanka w stylu Curtisa Mayfielda „Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)”. Protest song „House Burning Down”. Piętnastominutowy bluesowy „Voodoo Chile”. Soul-jazzowy groove „Rainy Day, Dream Away” i psychodeliczna apokalipsa „1983…(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)”.
"Electric Ladyland" to ostatni album studyjny Hendrixa. Został nagrany przed jego śmiercią na skutek przedawkowania środków nasennych w 1970 roku. Płyta trafiła na sam szczyt listy najlepiej sprzedających się albumów w Stanach Zjednoczonych, zaledwie w kilka tygodni po jej wydaniu. Nowojorskie studio, w którym go wyprodukowano, nazywa się obecnie Electric Ladyland na cześć tego właśnie albumu.

Rolling Stone:
“We’ve been doing new tracks that are really fantastic and we’ve just been getting into them,” Jimi Hendrix told Rolling Stone in February 1968, right after he and the Experience had played San Francisco’s Fillmore West. “You have these songs in your mind. You want to hurry up and get back to the things you were doing in the studio, because that’s the way you gear your mind….We wanted to play [the Fillmore], quite naturally, but you’re thinking about all these tracks, which is completely different from what you’re doing now.”
No one knew it at the time, but the new tracks Hendrix was referring to — which he, bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell had been working on intermittently since the previous summer — would form the nucleus of Electric Ladyland, the sprawling double album that would finally see the light of day October 16th, 1968. The final studio album ever recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and their only one to top the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, Electric Ladyland saw Hendrix moving light years beyond his two previous works, Are You Experienced? and Axis: Bold as Love, both of which had been released in 1967.
While the stomping “Crosstown Traffic” and the smoldering psych pop of “Burning of the Midnight Lamp” wouldn’t have sounded particularly out of place on either of those records, Electric Ladyland was full of bold new sonic colors, flavors and adventures, including “And the Gods Made Love,” a “sound painting” featuring vari-speeded drums, distorted vocals and backwards cymbals, the lilting Curtis Mayfield-influenced lullaby “Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland)”, the angry protest of “House Burning Down”, “Voodoo Chile,” a 15-minute live blues jam with Steve Winwood and the Jefferson Airplane’s Jack Casady, the slinky soul-jazz groove of “Rainy Day, Dream Away”, and the epic psychedelic apocalypse of “1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to Be).” The album also contained two tracks that would forever loom large in the Hendrix legend — the megalithically heavy “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” and his radical reworking of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower.”

But while many Hendrix fans today regard Electric Ladyland as his true masterpiece, its birth was a profoundly difficult one. Recording sessions for the album, mostly split between London’s Olympic Studios and New York’s Record Plant, were regularly interrupted by touring commitments. Hendrix found himself frequently frustrated by trying to make the music on tape match the sounds in his head, while his drive for perfectionism and his endless fascination with sonic experimentation wound up alienating some of his most trusted colleagues. And even in its completed state, Electric Ladyland didn’t end up sounding (or looking) quite like Hendrix had envisioned.

muzycy:
Jimi Hendrix - wokal, gitara
Mitch Mitchell - perkusja
Noel Redding - gitara basowa

Guests:
Mike Finnegan - organy (LP 2: 1, 4)
Freddie Lee Smith - saksofon tenorowy (LP 2: 1, 4)
Larry Faucette - kongi (LP 2: 1, 4)
Buddy Miles - perkusja (LP 2: 1, 4)
Steve Winwood - organy (LP 2, 7)
Jack Casady - gitara basowa (LP 2, 7)
Al Kooper - pianino (LP 1, 6)
Chris Wood - flet (LP 2, 2)

utwory:
1. ...And The Gods Made Love
2. Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
3. Crosstown Traffic
4. Voodoo Chile
5. Little Miss Strange
6. Long Hot Summer Night
7. Come On (Let The Good Times Roll)
8. Gypsy Eyes
9. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
10. Rainy Day, Dream Away
11. 1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
12. Moon, Turn The Tides...gently gently away
13. Still Raining, Still Dreaming
14. House Burning Down
15. All Along The Watchtower
16. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

wydano: (25 października 1968) 2012-08-16
nagrano: Lipiec-Grudzień 1967, Styczeń 1968, Kwiecień-Sierpień 1968
more info2: www.jimihendrix.com