Guitarist, but also an incredible singer, Jimi Hendrix is at the top of those artists whose posthumous discography is much more substantial than that produced during their lifetime. Logical since his solo career spanned four short years between 1966 and 1970, the date of his death. Since then, a pile of recordings has reached us. And not always for the best. Which is not the case with this new and interesting box set, validated of course by the Hendrix estate, showing the virtuoso as owner of the famous Electric Lady Studio that he himself designed. A first at the time for an artist. On the program, your choice of five vinyls or five CDs with, for each, 38 never-before-released tracks (including 20 mixes in 5.1 surround of the posthumous album First Rays of the New Rising Sun), boxed between June and August 1970. But the jewel of this reissue is undoubtedly the Blu-ray available in both versions which tells how a bankrupt club in Greenwich Village was transformed into a recording studio by the will of Hendrix and sound engineer Eddie Kramer. A legendary place where the Stones, Bowie and even Beyoncé have paraded, among others. Still alive.
Jimi Hendrix Electric Lady Studio A Jimi Hendrix Vision (Legacy /Sony Music)
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