Christopher Posted March 9, 2010 Report Share Posted March 9, 2010 Experience Hendrix and Sony Music Entertainment’s Legacy Recordings have released the monumental Valleys of Neptune, a newly curated album of 12 fully realized Jimi Hendrix studio recordings. Neptune features more than 60 minutes of music never commercially available on a Jimi Hendrix album, from the artist Rolling Stone magazine called the greatest guitarist of all time. Centered around tracks recorded during a pivotal and turbulent four-month period in 1969, Valleys of Neptune unveils the original Jimi Hendrix Experience’s final studio recordings, as the group lays down the foundation for its follow-up to Electric Ladyland, alongside the guitar superhero’s first sessions with bassist Billy Cox, an old army buddy he’d recruited into his new ensemble. Valleys of Neptune provides an essential, compelling, and up-til-now largely unseen view of what Jimi Hendrix was up to musically in the critical period between the release of Electric Ladyland in October 1968 and the 1970 opening of his own Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, the state of the art facility where he would begin his final project, the ambitious double album First Rays of the New Rising Sun. Janie Hendrix, CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC, the Hendrix family-owned company entrusted with preserving and protecting the legacy of Jimi Hendrix, noted, “My brother Jimi was at home in the studio. Valleys of Neptune offers deep insight into his mastery of the recording process and demonstrates the fact that he was as unparalleled a recording innovator as he was a guitarist. His brilliance shines through on every one of these precious tracks.” Valleys of Neptune is originality electrified, offering more than 60 minutes of previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix music, originally recorded, and newly mixed for this historic release, by Hendrix’s longtime engineer Eddie Kramer, who first worked with the guitarist on Are You Experienced? in 1967. Valleys of Neptune is produced by Janie Hendrix, John McDermott (who contributes detailed liner notes to the album) and Eddie Kramer. “Valleys of Neptune” has long been one of the most sought after of any commercially unavailable Jimi Hendrix recording. The song was released as a single globally on February 2, 2010, nearly forty years after Jimi finished recording the track at New York’s Record Plant in May of 1970. Other highlights on Valleys of Neptune include blazing studio covers of Elmore James’ classic “Bleeding Heart” and Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love” as well as premier performances of original Hendrix compositions like “Ships Passing Through The Night,” “Lullaby For The Summer” and the original un-dubbed Jimi Hendrix Experience rendition of “Hear My Train A Comin’.” Also included in Valleys of Neptune is “Mr. Bad Luck,” a Jimi Hendrix Experience track, produced by Chas Chandler during the 1967 Axis: Bold as Love sessions. Here is the full tracklisting and information for Valleys of Neptune: Stone FreeRecorded: Record Plant, New York, April 7, 9, 14, May 17,1969Producer: Jimi HendrixVocal, Guitar: Jimi HendrixBass: Billy CoxDrums: Mitch MitchellBacking Vocals: Roger Chapman, Andy Fairweather Low Valleys Of NeptuneRecorded: Record Plant, New York, September 23, 1969, May 15, 1970Producer: Jimi HendrixVocal, Guitar: Jimi HendrixDrums: Mitch MitchellBass: Billy CoxPercussion: Juma Sultan Bleeding HeartRecorded: Record Plant, New York, April 24, 1969Producer: Jimi HendrixVocal, Guitar: Jimi HendrixBass: Billy CoxDrums: Rocky IsaacTambourine: Chris GrimesMaracas: Al Marks Hear My Train A Comin’Recorded: Record Plant, New York, April 7, 1969Producer: Jimi HendrixVocal, Guitar: Jimi HendrixBass: Noel ReddingDrums: Mitch Mitchell Mr. Bad LuckRecorded: Olympic Studios, London, May 5, 1967Producer: Chas ChandlerAdditional bass and drum recording, Air Studios, London, June 5, 1987Vocal, Guitar: Jimi HendrixBass: Noel ReddingDrums: Mitch Mitchell Sunshine Of Your LoveRecorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 16, 1969Producer: Jimi HendrixGuitar: Jimi HendrixBass: Noel ReddingDrums: Mitch MitchellPercussion: Rocki Dzidzornu Lover ManRecorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 16, 1969Producer: Jimi HendrixVocal, Guitar: Jimi HendrixBass: Noel ReddingDrums: Mitch Mitchell Ships Passing Through The NightRecorded: Record Plant, New York, April 14, 1969Producer: Jimi HendrixGuitar, Vocals: Jimi HendrixBass: Noel ReddingDrums: Mitch Mitchell FireRecorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 17, 1969Producer: Jimi HendrixVocal, Guitar: Jimi HendrixBass, Backing Vocal: Noel ReddingDrums: Mitch Mitchell Red HouseRecorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 17, 1969Producer: Jimi HendrixVocal, Guitar: Jimi HendrixBass: Noel ReddingDrums: Mitch Mitchell Lullaby For The SummerRecorded: Record Plant, New York, April 7, 1969Producer: Jimi HendrixMixed By Eddie KramerGuitar: Jimi HendrixBass: Noel ReddingDrums: Mitch Mitchell Crying Blue RainRecorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 16, 1969Producer: Jimi HendrixAdditional bass and drum recording, Air Studios, London, June 5, 1987Vocal, Guitar: Jimi HendrixPercussion: Rocki DzidzornuBass: Noel ReddingDrums: Mitch Mitchell Related Posts:Playstation Network Update – November 13thSony Providing HD Video Cameras For Duke City Shootout FilmmakersSony Music Artists Win Big At 52nd Grammy AwardsMichael Jackson’s “This Is It” Trailer In HDUsher Performs ‘Here I Stand’ Live At Sony’s 2009 CES KeynoteView the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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