Jimi Hendrix – South Saturn Delta

Not a really good sounding record... Certains tracks sounds muffled or badly sourced. Other Hendrix compilation are more interesting and sounds better like "people hells Angels" or "valleys of neptune"

Notes from the CD release page if anyone is wondering where these songs are from :

Track 01 - originally issued as part of 'Rainbow Bridge', produced by Jimi Hendrix
Track 02 - previously unreleased recording
Track 03 - also known as 'Lover Man' and is a previously unreleased recording
Track 04 - previously unreleased alternate mix
Track 05 - previously unreleased alternate version
Track 06 - previously unreleased recording that would evolve into 'Message To Love'
Track 07 - originally issued as part of 'War Heroes'
Track 08 - previously unreleased alternate mix
Track 09 - originally issued as part of 'Loose Ends'
Track 10 - originally issued as part of 'War Heroes'
Track 11 - previously unreleased recording that would evolve into 'Angel'
Track 12 - originally issued as part of 'War Heroes'
Track 13 - originally issued as part of 'Rainbow Bridge'
Track 14 - previously unreleased alternate version
Track 15 - previously unreleased recording ..

* Track 02 is an instrumental version of 'Angel', not 'Little Wing'

“According to Hendrix's regular engineer Eddie Kramer, the guitarist cut a large number of takes on the first day of recording in January in London, shouting chord changes at Dave Mason who featured at the session and played an additional 12-string guitar.Halfway through the session, bass player Noel Redding became dissatisfied with the proceedings and left. Mason then took over on bass. According to Kramer, the final bass part was played by Hendrix himself. Hendrix's friend and Rolling Stones multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones contributed the dry rattles heard in the intro, played on a vibraslap. This sparse version without any overdubs would eventually feature on the South Saturn Delta compilation”

“According to Hendrix's regular engineer Eddie Kramer, the guitarist cut a large number of takes on the first day of recording in January in London, shouting chord changes at Dave Mason who featured at the session and played an additional 12-string guitar.Halfway through the session, bass player Noel Redding became dissatisfied with the proceedings and left. Mason then took over on bass. According to Kramer, the final bass part was played by Hendrix himself. Hendrix's friend and Rolling Stones multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones contributed the dry rattles heard in the intro, played on a vibraslap. This sparse version without any overdubs would eventually feature on the South Saturn Delta compilation”

The different all along the watch tower mix”According to Hendrix's regular engineer Eddie Kramer, the guitarist cut a large number of takes on the first day of recording in January in London, shouting chord changes at Dave Mason who featured at the session and played an additional 12-string guitar.Halfway through the session, bass player Noel Redding became dissatisfied with the proceedings and left. Mason then took over on bass. According to Kramer, the final bass part was played by Hendrix himself. Hendrix's friend and Rolling Stones multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones contributed the dry rattles heard in the intro, played on a vibraslap. This sparse version without any overdubs would eventually feature on the South Saturn Delta compilation”

The barcode scan directed to this copy (also, the matrix numbers are identical), but mine was pressed at QRP and has a slightly different hype sticker, so there's probably a new repress not listed at Discogs yet