Jimi Hendrix - The Cry of Love (1971) Flac[24 Bit 96KHz Vinyl]

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'The Cry of Love' was the first Hendrix Studio album to appear after his untimely death.
Many people feel it is the only posthumous album that Hendrix
would have been satisfied with.
But even though it is a great album that assumption is not near the truth.
Hendrix' death had left a lot of recordings in various stages of completion.
A couple of songs were already mixed down to (near-) perfection, but
most of them were still incomplete.

After his passing, Michael Jeffrey (Hendrix' manager) hoped to compile three albums out
of the enormous pile of tapes that Hendrix left behind.
One of them would have to be a soundtrack album to a film called Rainbow Bridge
-a project in which Jeffrey was deeply involved- and which he was desperate to turn
into a commercial success.
However, first there would have to be a regular album containing the strongest recordings.
Jeffrey opted not to release a double album because he needed to fulfill his contractual
obligations with Warner Brothers.

Eddie Kramer, who was chief engineer of Hendrix' new Electric Lady Studio's and who had
been closely involved with the recording process until Jimi's death,
was given the unenviable task of completing the album that Hendrix had never finished.
Together with Mitch Mitchell, he went through the many tapes that Hendrix had recorded
over the past two years.
This process that must have been painful to these two people who had worked so closely
with Hendrix over the last four years.
Although a large share of tapes were not available at that point, (the sessions that
Experience had done at the TTG studio's in Oct. 1968 and many of the Record Plant
sessions from the spring and autumn of 1969 with the Band of Gypsys), it was correctly
assumed that the best material was among the works from the last six months prior
to Hendrix death.

But even though Hendrix had written some real strong material in this period, most of it
had not been fully realized on tape yet.
Therefore, Kramer and Mitchell decided to add overdubbed drum parts on some somes
and vibes to 'Drifting' (which Hendrix had considered) in an attempt to upgrade the material .
A couple more studio tricks had to be pulled to get to a more finished sounding end result,
but -unlike Alan Douglas later- Kramer and Mitchell were keen not to disrespect Jimi's wishes.

The resulting album is great but one cannot help but wonder what it would have been
had Hendrix lived.
At the same time, 'The Cry of Love' does give a complete image of the musical direction that
Hendrix was heading into, more than any other posthumous album.
Songs like "In from the storm", 'Freedom", "Drifting" -to name just a few- are masterpieces
and we should be happy that Hendrix lived to record these.
It's a shame that these songs hardly get played by those classic rock radio stations.

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Tracklist

Freedom 3:29
Drifting 3:50
Ezy Ryder 4:11
Night Bird Flying 3:47
My Friend 4:40
Straight Ahead 4:45
Astro Man 3:34
In From the Storm 3:37
Angel 4:25
Belly Button Window 3:37

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General

File size : 831 MB
Album : The Cry Of Love
Track name/Position : 10
Performer : Jimi Hendrix
Genre : Rock
Recorded date : 1971


Audio

Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 2 766 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 96.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits