The new Jimi Hendrix album `Valleys of Neptune` will not be the last unreleased music we hear from the legendary guitarist who died 40-years ago this year.
“We probably have about 14 more project to go over the next 10 years,” his sister Janie Hendrix tells Undercover News. “It will be a combination of concert footage, studio, live CDs and DVDs.Janie now runs the family business Experience Hendrix LLC and manages the Jimi Hendrix catalogue. She says he was forever performing and recording “He performed a lot,” she says. “He was paid well his performances and a lot of it was filmed or recorded. We also mix concert footage with documentary footage and we have a lot of that in the can as well”.
The tracks from new album ‘Valleys of Neptune have a common thread. ’The common thread outside of Mr Bad Luck was about the time period,” she says. “In 1969, Jimi had finished ‘Electric Ladyland’ and he was working on this new sound. He was telling us about this new music, this new sound that he wanted people to hear. He thought he could really change music. It was similar to what we did in 1997 when we put out ‘First Rays of the New Rising Sun’. Once again, that was the same time period that ‘Valleys of Neptune’ was from”.
Jimi Hendrix was only around for four years but left an enormous catalogue. “The vault is full of songs in different versions,” she says. “He was such a perfectionist and he would hear things a different way. He never really played the same song the same way twice. That's what we have. Over 110 songs he wrote and accomplished a lot in four years”.
‘Valleys of Neptune’ will be released through Sony Music next week.
Sony Music is offering you a chance to win a not-for-sale limited edition collectors item Jimi Hendrix iPod Touch for those who preorder the album here.
The prize includes the collectors edition Valleys of Neptune iPod Touch, a Jimi Hendrix canvas print and a CD pack featuring the newly remastered Jimi Hendrix CD collection.
Sony Music will release Jimi Hendrix ‘Valleys of Neptune’ on March 12.
Watch the brand new video for the title track here:
