Axis: Bold As Love (45 Rpm Stereo Version)＜限定盤/Clarity Vinyl/200g重量盤＞

ロックに革命をもたらしたギタリスト、ジミ・ヘンドリックス。デビュー作と同年の1967年に発表されたセカンド・アルバム『Axis: Bold As Love』が高音質レーベルAnalogue ProductionsからUHQR（Ultra High Quality Record）タイトルとして、200g重量盤の45回転レコードで発売。

ステレオとモノラルの両方のバージョンで発売されるこのUHQRは、著名なマスタリング エンジニアである Bernie Grundman によって、オリジナルのアナログ・マスターテープから新たにリマスタリングされています。すべてのUHQRは、Acoustic Sounds の業界をリードするプレス工場である Quality Record Pressings (QRP) で、手作業で選別された Clarity Vinyl を使用して、レコード1枚1枚の細部にまで注意を払ってプレスされます。

Jimi Hendrixs 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 Jimis most avant-garde tracks yet, "EXP" and the proto-fusion jazz blowout of "If 6 Was 9." ~ Cub Koda