Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced

Vinyl 180g, Lp, Remastered from Original Monophonic Master Tape | Label: Music On Vinyl | Year of Release 2013 | Genre: Rock Blues, Psychedelic Rock | 11 Tracks

Fully Oiginal Cover

ARTIST: Jimi Hendrix Experience

ALBUM: Are You Experienced

LABEL: Reprise

FORMAT: Vinile, Lp, Remastered

RELEASE DATE: 28/03/2013

FIRST PUBLICATION DATE: 12/05/1967

GENRE: Rock Blues, Rock Psichedelico

TRACKS:

Side A

Purple Haze - 2:51
Manic Depression - 3:42
Hey Joe (Billy Roberts) – 3:30
Love or Confusion - 3:11
May This Be Love - 3:11
I Don't Live Today - 3:55

Side B

The Wind Cries Mary - 3:20
Fire - 2:43
Third Stone from the Sun - 6:44
Foxy Lady - 3:19
Are You Experienced? - 4:16

FORMATION

Jimi Hendrix - voce, chitarra, pianoforte, voce della Star Fleet in Third Stone from the Sun
Noel Redding - basso, voce
Mitch Mitchell - batteria, percussioni

"'Are You Experienced'?" had a historical importance like few other albums, and left us with a handful of pearls that today can be catalogued as rock classics, 'standards' to put it in the language of jazz. It is enough to mention a few titles (with a necessary clarification: some of them were released as singles, also in 1967, but we consider them to be one and the same with the album under review, especially since they are included in the current reissues of 'Are you experienced? "): "Hey Joe", or rather how to turn a banal cover into rock history, with that guitar intro on the E pentatonic (or rather E flat, since Hendrix almost always played with the guitar tuned down a semi-tone, both to be able to adapt his limited singing abilities to the songs, and to make the guitar more manageable, especially when performing bending) that left an indelible mark; "Purple Haze", which begins with a phrase marked on an augmented fourth interval (considered in medieval times to be nothing less than the devil's interval), continues with one of the most famous riffs ever, accompanied by martial drums, and explodes with a typically bluesy turn, but harmonically enriched by the chords used by Hendrix, which go beyond simple minor sevenths, in particular the minor seventh chord with diminished third, not by chance becoming famous in rock as the Hendrix chord; "Stone free", another lesson in grit and power, hardly recognises the origin of rock and roll, nor does one catch a glimpse of the pop path taken by other groups, above all the Beatles; "Fire", a song at a thousand miles an hour, definitely anticipating many developments in rock music, with the drums almost duetting with the initial guitar turn, is another (it has to be said) milestone. "
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