New albums

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'Valleys Of Neptune' is a newly curated album of 12 stunning studio recordings from JImi Hendrix. This collector’s item contains more than 60 minutes of music never commercially available on a Jimi Hendrix album. Centered around tracks recorded during a pivotal and turbulent four-month period in 1969, 'Valleys of Neptune' unveils the original Jimi Hendrix Experience's final studio recordings. Here the group lays down the foundation for its follow-up to 'Electric Ladyland', alongside the guitar superhero's first sessions with bassist Billy Cox, an old army buddy he'd recruited into his new ensemble.

'Valleys O f Neptune' provides an essential, compelling, and largely unseen view of what Jimi Hendrix was up to musically in the critical period between the release of 'Electric Ladyland' in October 1968 and the 1970 opening of his own Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village. The state of the art facility is also where he would begin his final project, the ambitious double album 'First Rays of the New Rising Sun'.

'Valleys of Neptune' offers more than 60 minutes of previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix music, originally recorded, and newly mixed for this historic release, by Hendrix's longtime engineer Eddie Kramer, who first worked with the guitarist on 'Are You Experienced?' in 1967. 'Valleys of Neptune' is produced by Janie Hendrix, John McDermott (who contributes detailed liner notes to the album) and Eddie Kramer. Other highlights on 'Valleys Of Neptune' include blazing studio covers of Elmore James' classic "Bleeding Heart" and Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love," as well as premier performances of original Hendrix compositions like "Ships Passing Through The Night," "Lullaby For The Summer," and the original recording of the Jimi Hendrix Experience rendition of "Hear My Train A Comin'." Also included is "Mr. Bad Luck," a Jimi Hendrix Experience track, produced by Chas Chandler during the 1967 'Axis: Bold As Love' sessions.

1. Stone Free
2. Valleys Of Neptune
3. Bleeding Heart
4. Hear My Train A Comin'
5. Mr. Bad Luck
6. Sunshine Of Your Love
7. Lover Man
8. Ships Passing Through The Night
9. Fire
10. Red House
11. Lullaby For The Summer
12. Crying Blue Rain