Axis: Bold As Love＜完全生産限定盤/Orange Vinyl＞

ロック史上に残る名盤 ジミ・ヘンドリックス・エクスペリエンス 1967年作品『ボールド・アズ・ラヴ』

1967年にデビュー作『アー・ユー・エクスペリエンスト?』でロック・シーンに衝撃を与え、ギターに火をつけ破壊するというモンタレー・ポップ・フェスティヴァルでの驚愕のパフォーマンスで、母国アメリカの聴衆も虜にしたジミ・ヘンドリックス。同じ年に、早くも発表されたセカンド・アルバム『Axis: Bold As Love』(ボールド・アズ・ラヴ)がオレンジカラーのヴァイナルで登場。「リトル・ウィング」「砂のお城」「ボールド・アズ・ラヴ」といった名曲の数々が収録された大名盤。

Jimi Hendrix's second album followed up his groundbreaking debut effort with a solid collection of great tunes and great interactive playing between himself, Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell, and the recording studio itself. Wisely retaining manager Chas Chandler to produce the album and Eddie Kramer as engineer, Hendrix stretched further musically than the first album, but even more so as a songwriter. He was still quite capable of coming up with spacy rockers like "You Got Me Floating," "Up from the Skies," and "Little Miss Lover," radio-ready to follow on the commercial heels of "Foxey Lady" and "Purple Haze." But the beautiful, wistful ballads "Little Wing," "Castles Made of Sand," "One Rainy Wish," and the title track set closer show remarkable growth and depth as a tunesmith, harnessing Curtis Mayfield soul guitar to Dylanesque lyrical imagery and Fuzz Face hyperactivity to produce yet another side to his grand psychedelic musical vision. These are tempered with Jimi's most avant-garde tracks yet, "EXP" and the proto-fusion jazz blowout of "If 6 Was 9." ~ Cub Koda