Audio CD review:
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Soup

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Soup

Band: Jimi Hendrix Title: Voodoo Soup Rating: Release Date: 11 April, 1995 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: New Rising Sun 2: Belly Button Window 3: Stepping Stone 4: Freedom 5: Angel 6: Room Full of Mirrors 7: Midnight 8: Night Bird Flying 9: Drifting 10: Ezy Ryder 11: Pali Gap 12: Message to Love 13: Peace in Mississippi 14: In from the Storm

Customer Reviews Out Of Print and Out Of This World! If you can still find it, buy it!. The original masters done before the estate took over. Captures the Imagination A number of heavy guitar solos like Midnight, Pali Gap and Peace in Mississippi take the sounds of the 70's beyond the psychedelia of the 60's . This is the mature late Hendrix who is already a huge star and he's gone beyond the original lineup of The Experience into a new period. Desert Island Disc - if only every copy of this CD were on one But the out-of-print label can make even the most awful releases seem somehow more attractive once the bargain bins have emptied and they are no longer available in large quantities, and I fear that is the case here. If someone had previously seriously suggested to me that some day people might actually start to like this album in a sort of Hendrixian post-modernist way, I would either have thought they were playing some kind of practical joke or were friends of the Alan Douglas family. Buy this only if you have 'First Rays' from Experience Hendrix and want to appreciate just how easy it is to mess up the job of assembling Jimi's final studio album. The pre-Douglasized versions on 'First Rays' are THE versions - the mix, the sound, is far more like that of Jimi's own mixes. Voodoo Soup is a release by the artist Alan Douglas and his sessionmen using the tapes of Jimi Hendrix as his instrument, and is to be seen as a continuation of 'Crash Landing' and 'Midnight Lightning', another two dismal releases not worth tracking down for those interested. As a Hendrix record producer he allowed himself to tamper just too much with the artist's product, his live releases Woodstock and Isle of Wight suffering equally from this tendency. The only Douglas releases worth listening to are 'Nine to the Universe', although the full jams are now available on various Dagger releases, and of course 'Blues', which must be Douglas' career highlight. Let's all be grateful that finally as close to the intended album as possible came out with EH's 'First Rays'. . You can see a complete list of all Jimi Hendrix discography, or go back to the Jimi Hendrix tabs