![]() The guest musicians would also help adjust the flavour of the music. ![]() ![]() The studios modern technology would become a key ingredient in the experimental nature of the resulting album. The album remains his artistic high point as he had the autonomy to try new ideas.Īt the time, New York Citys The Record Plant was a brand new twelve-track studio and was a mighty jump from Londons Olympic Studios four tracks where a few of the songs were initially mapped out. Now Hendrix was holding the reins and Electric Ladyland was the first and only studio album to be produced and directed by Jimi himself. In the studio he would record multiple takes of each part and this painstaking attention to detail caused his producer and manager Chas Chandler (formerly of The Animals) to lose patience and split. With this double set (now on one compact disc), Hendrix once again pushed the concept album to new horizons.Īustralia Belgium Netherlands Canada France Germany Italy Japan Portugal Scandinavia Spain UK USA Confirmation I can unsubscribe any time, and my info will be private as detailed here, never sold to any third-party. ![]() What Hendrix sonically achieved on this record expanded the concept of what could be gotten out of a modern recording studio in much the same manner as Phil Spector had done a decade before with his Wall of Sound.Īs an album this influential (and as far as influencing a generation of players and beyond, this was his ultimate statement for many), the highlights speak for themselves: Crosstown Traffic, his reinterpretation of Bob Dylan s All Along the Watchtower, Burning of the Midnight Lamp, the spacy 1983.(A Merman I Should Turn to Be), and Voodoo Child (Slight Return), a landmark in Hendrix s playing. Kudos to engineer Eddie Kramer (who supervised the remastering of the original two-track stereo masters for this 1997 reissue on MCA) for taking Hendrix s visions of a soundscape behind his music and giving it all context, experimenting with odd mic techniques, echo, backward tape, flanging, and chorusing, all new techniques at the time, at least the way theyre used here. But Electric Ladyland is so much more than just background music for chemical intake. ![]()
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