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Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision

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Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision

Sony will release Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision, a new deluxe box set that offers mostly previously unreleased tracks recorded by the new look Jimi Hendrix Experience (Billy Cox on bass, Mitch Mitchell on drums) at Manhattan’s Electric Lady Studios between June and August of 1970, shortly before the musician’s untimely death the following month.

These sessions saw Hendrix hard at work creating First Rays Of The New Rising Sun, an ambitious
double album that was planned to follow his 1968’s Electric Ladyland. The box sets offers a comprehensive look at the work Hendrix undertook during that summer of 1970. The music ranges from four-track demo recordings of ‘Valleys Of Neptune’ and ‘Heaven Has No Sorrow’, alternate arrangements of new songs such as ‘Come Down Hard On Me’ and ‘Belly Button’.

There will be two box sets: a 3CD+blu-ray version and a 5LP+blu-ray edition. Both offer 39 tracks of which 38 are previously unreleased. These include an unreleased version of ‘Angel’ [Take 7] which has been newly mixed. It includes the original performances recorded by Hendrix, Mitchell and Cox on July 23, 1970and pointedly does not include any of the drums and additional percussion elements Mitchell opted to add to this master take after Hendrix had died.

 
Both boxes come with a blu-ray that includes 20 newly created 5.1 surround sound mixes of the entire First Rays Of The New Rising Sun album plus three bonus tracks [‘Valleys Of Neptune’, ‘Pali Gap’
and ‘Lover Man’]. The Blu-ray also includes the full-length documentary Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision, which shows how Hendrix invested in what was originally a bankrupt Manhattan nightclub and started the process of turning it into a studio.

The packages also include a booklet with unpublished photos, Hendrix’s handwritten song drafts, and comprehensive sleeve notes.

Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision will be released on 4 October 2024, via Sony.

Tracklisting

Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision

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    • CD 1
      1. Ezy Ryder [Alternate Mix]* 6/18/70
      2. Valleys Of Neptune [Alternate Version]*  6/15/70
      3. Straight Ahead [Takes 1 & 2]* 6/17/70
      4. Drifter’s Escape [Takes 1 & 2]* 6/17/70
      5. Astro Man [Takes 9 & 10]* 6/24/70
      6. Astro Man [Take 14]* 6/24/70
      7. Drifting [Takes 1 & 2]* 6/25/70
      8. Night Bird Flying [Take 25]* 6/16/70
      9. Farther Up The Road* 6/24/70
      10. The Long Medley [Astro Man / Beginnings / Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) / Midnight
      11. Lightning (Keep On Groovin’) / Freedom]* 6/24/70
      *Previously unreleased
    • CD 2
      1. Earth Blues [Alternate Mix]* 6/26/70
      2. Dolly Dagger [Takes 17 & 18]* 7/1/70
      3. Angel [Take 7]* 7/23/70
      4. Beginnings [Take 5]* 7/1/70
      5. Lover Man 7/20/70
      6. Tune X* / Just Came In [Take 6]* 7/22/70
      7. Heaven Has No Sorry [Demo]* 6/26/70
      8. Freedom [Take 4]* 6/25/70
      9. Valleys Of Neptune [Demo]* 6/26/70
      10. Come Down Hard On Me [Take 15]* 7/15/70
      11. Dolly Dagger [Alternate Version]* 7/19/70
      12. Messing Around [Take 17]* 6/16/70
      13. Tune X* / Just Came In [Take 8]* 7/22/70
      14. Drifting [Alternate Version]* 8/20/70
      15. Freedom [Alternate Version]* 7/19/70
      16. Belly Button Window [Take 1]* 7/23/70
      *Previously unreleased
    • CD 3
      1. Dolly Dagger [Mix 2]* 8/20/70
      2. Night Bird Flying [Alternate Version]* 8/20/70
      3. Freedom [Alternate Version]* 8/20/70
      4. Midnight Lightning* / Beginnings* 7/1/70
      5. Straight Ahead [Alternate Mix]* 8/20/70
      6. In From The Storm [Alternate Mix]* 8/24/70
      7. Bolero* / Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) [Alternate Mix]* 8/22/70
      8. Drifter’s Escape [Alternate Mix]* 8/22/70
      9. Astro Man [Alternate Version]* 8/22/70
      10. Bleeding Heart [Alternate Mix]* 8/22/70
      11. Drifting [Alternate Version]* 11/20/70
      12. Room Full Of Mirrors [Alternate Version]* 10/19/70
      13. Angel [Alternate Version]* 10/19/70
      *Previously unreleased
    • Blu-ray
      First Rays of the New Rising Sun + Bonus Tracks 5.1 Mixes
      All 20 tracks available in 5.1 surround sound audio for first time ever
      1. Freedom
      2. Izabella
      3. Night Bird Flying
      4. Angel
      5. Room Full of Mirrors
      6. Dolly Dagger
      7. Ezy Ryder
      8. Drifting
      9. Beginnings
      10. Stepping Stone
      11. My Friend
      12. Straight Ahead
      13. Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)
      14. Earth Blues
      15. Astro Man
      16. In From the Storm
      17. Belly Button Window
      18. Pali Gap (from Rainbow Bridge album)
      19. Lover Man (from Jimi Hendrix Experience box set)
      20. Valleys of Neptune (from Valleys of Neptune album)

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