THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE - ELECTRIC LADYLAND reviews
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As much as the world was in turmoil while Electric Ladyland was being made, so, undoubtedly, was The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Made by an over-worked, over-managed group led by a guitarist keeping demandingly odd hours, forty years on the album displays an unquestionable power and beauty, but also records a huge tension....full text |
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| Being a bit fed up with music as "reactive noise" ("God man, the world's a drag, let's play loud and drown it out"), I was sort of set not to dig this LP, but I had to. Hendrix is a good musician and his science fiction concepts surmount noise. There isn't really a concept (no Sgt. Pepper trips here)—instead there's a unity, an energy flow. The LP opens with an electronic track using tape loops and phasing (think of "Itchy Coo Park" by the Small Faces for an example of phasing) called "And the Gods Made Love." Hendrix said in an interview, "We knew this was the track that most people will jump on to criticize, so I put it first to get it over with."...full text |
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| Independet |
You should already own 'Ladyland': it's Hendrix's best studio album, the one which hinted most aromatically at riches yet to come.
If you don't, go out now and buy this collector's edition. And even if you do, you ought to be interested in it because it comes with a DVD all about the making of the album, hosted by engineer Eddie Kramer and enlisting the reflections of relevant alumni (chiefly Messrs Mitchell and Redding). It's a standardised format, but when the basic material is this good, it works....full text |
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