Audio CD review:
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love

Band: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Title: Axis: Bold As Love Rating: Release Date: 22 April, 1997 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: EXP 2: Up From The Skies 3: Spanish Castle Magic 4: Wait Until Tomorrow 5: Ain't No Telling 6: Little Wing 7: If 6 Was 9 8: You Got Me Floatin' 9: Castles Made Of Sand 10: She's So Fine 11: One Rainy Wish 12: Little Miss Lover 13: Bold As Love

Editoral Review In places, it almost seems as if Hendrix is cruising, albeit sublimely. Jimi Hendrix's second album doesn't resonate through rock history the way its gatecrashing predecessor, Are You Experienced?, does. Yet it's a vital album, containing some of rock's molten milestones. There's the fluid psychedelia of "Castles Made of Sand," the viciously funky "Little Miss Lover," and the so-beautiful-it-hurts "Little Wing. " Hendrix really hits altitude with "If 6 Was 9," where he waves his "freak flag high" over a tidal wave of guitar and a cacophonous army of Moroccan flutes, and he ends with "Bold As Love," based around Hendrix's typically far-fetched hankering for the axis of the planet to be tilted, thereby transforming life on earth. It works up into a head-melting frenzy of distorted guitar, a precursor to the staggeringly expansive leap forward he would take with 1968's Electric Ladyland. Hendrix dreamed the impossible and achieved it on his guitar. --David Stubbs .. You can see a complete list of all The Jimi Hendrix Experience discography, or go back to the The Jimi Hendrix Experience tabs