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Jimi Hendrix - Valleys of Neptune (2010)


Immense! Actually, I listen and I open up infinite array of emotions, is a myriad of forces under a single emotion I'd say.

And say that I approached this with skepticism Hendrix's posthumous album, I took it and I just heard a little for pregiuduzio then revealed that it was wrong to an operation done on the wave of rock fashion of the moment , a little bit because I was afraid of ruining the image I have in my head and what Jimi was for me in 35 years of my own abundant rock, some for reasons completely inverse to what was said, instead of being in front a beautiful toy to be discovered little by little and play with the utmost care not to break it.

is a fact that made this posthumous album of unreleased tracks and unknown to the mass as an instrumental of "Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream as well as the studio recordings of live versions of the classic "Fire" and "Red House", made in preparation for the concert held at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1969, "Mr. Bad Luck", one of the few original songs that a still unknown Hendrix used to play in the premises of Greenwich Village in New York in 1966, and "Bleeding Heart" Elmore James and last but by first name since it was "out" as an individual to predict the complete job "Valleys of Neptune", published in 1969 and remastered per l'occasione.

A curare la rimasterizzazione delle canzoni è stato chiamato il tecnico del suono di fiducia di Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, che ha utilizzato strumenti sia digitali che analogici per riportare i master agli antichi splendori.

Detto questo parliamo della sostanza! Come attacca "Stone Free" in studio capisci che ti trovi di fronte a qualcosa di unico, certo le dita delle mani di Hendrix sulle corde sono uniche e produco un suono che è inconfondibile, un marchio come il suono di Clapton o di Page, se ti fa facessero ascoltare la musichetta del Carosello suonata da uno di questi artisti tra altri 1000 li riconosceresti subito, ed è per questo che questo lavoro ha il massimo in brani "Valleys of Neptune" or "Bleeding Heart".

But when it attacks "Sunshine of Your Love" Cream that you can understand the frustration of a Clapton which tells of an evening in London is going to listen to Hendrix and recognizing that the guitarist in the audience attacked one of his songs Eric and yet he raged, he would feel frustrated even Beethoven had heard his ninth in the hands of Hendrix!

For me this album represents a return to my 80s when I listened to Jimi with the Walkman and wandered carefree on a motorbike who then listening would become rock classics, but he was already in the Olympus of our beloved genre.


Stra-recommended
Jimi Hendrix - Valleys of Neptune (2010)
rating: 10/10