South Saturn Delta

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South Saturn Delta
South Saturn Delta.jpg
Compilation album by
Jimi Hendrix
ReleasedOctober 7, 1997 (1997-10-07)
RecordedJuly 1967 –August 1970
Studio
  • London
  • New York City
  • Hollywood, California
Genre
Length65:47
Label MCA
Compiler
Jimi Hendrix chronology
Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix
(1997)		South Saturn Delta
(1997)		 Live at the Oakland Coliseum
(1998)

South Saturn Delta is a posthumous compilation album by American rock musician Jimi Hendrix. Released in 1997 by Experience Hendrix (operated by his estate), it consists of material such as demo tapes, unfinished takes and alternate mixes, and previously released material, most of which Hendrix had been working on prior to his death in 1970.

Contents

Background

Released prior to South Saturn Delta, First Rays of the New Rising Sun was Experience Hendrix's attempt at presenting Hendrix's planned fourth studio album. [1] The album consists of songs previously released on his first posthumous albums The Cry of Love (1971), Rainbow Bridge (1971), and War Heroes (1972). [2] South Saturn Delta collects five songs from the latter two then out-of-print albums that were not selected for First Rays. [3]

Other tracks include "The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice", an early Jimi Hendrix Experience B-side single that saw release on the UK compilations Smash Hits (1968) and Loose Ends (1974), but never officially released in the US on a Jimi Hendrix album. [4] Alternate takes and mixes of previously released songs and demos for new songs that Hendrix may or may not have completed for release flesh out the album. [3]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Entertainment Weekly A− [8]
Pitchfork 7.6/10 [9]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [10]

In a review for Rolling Stone , David Fricke viewed South Saturn Delta as an inconsistent compilation that is "less of a mess" than the albums that preceded it but does not explore deep enough into Hendrix's recordings. [11] Robert Christgau wrote in Blender , "it establishes the listenability of Hendrix's dribs and drabs", despite being "discographically presumptuous". [6] AllMusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine said the album serves as an attempt to "capture the full range of Hendrix's music through an alternate history ... an intelligently sequenced, listenable collection of some of the very best outtakes and rarities from Hendrix". [5] James P. Wisdom from Pitchfork found the songs full of Hendrix's growing embrace of fusing rock, blues, and jazz sounds "in ways that had never been considered". [9]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jimi Hendrix, except as noted

No.TitleOriginal releaseLength
1."Look Over Yonder" Rainbow Bridge 3:25
2."Little Wing"Previously unreleased version2:44
3."Here He Comes (Lover Man)"Previously unreleased6:33
4."South Saturn Delta"Previously unreleased alternate mix4:07
5."Power of Soul"Previously unreleased alternate version [12] 5:20
6."Message to the Universe (Message to Love)"Previously unreleased6:19
7."Tax Free" (Bo Hansson, Janne Carlsson) War Heroes 4:58
8."All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan)Previously unreleased alternate mix4:01
9."The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice"UK single B-side to "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" (1967)4:20
10."Midnight"War Heroes5:32
11."Sweet Angel (Angel)"Previously unreleased3:55
12."Bleeding Heart" ( [13] )War Heroes3:15
13."Pali Gap"Rainbow Bridge5:08
14."Drifter's Escape" (Bob Dylan)Previously unreleased alternate version [14] 3:05
15."Midnight Lightning"Previously unreleased3:07

Personnel

Additional Personnel

Recording details

TrackLocation(s)Recording date(s)
Track 1 TTG Studios, Hollywood, CaliforniaOctober 22, 1968
Track 2 Olympic Studios, LondonOctober 14, 1967
Track 3TTGOctober 29, 1968
Track 4 Record Plant Studios, New York CityMay 2 & June 14, 1968
Track 5Record PlantJanuary 21 & February 3, 1970
Track 6 The Hit Factory, New York CityAugust 28, 1969
Track 7Olympic; Record PlantJanuary 26 & 28, 1968; May 1, 1968
Track 8OlympicJanuary 21 & 26, 1968
Track 9Mayfair Studios, New York CityJuly 19, 1967
Track 10Olmstead Studios, New York CityApril 1 & 3, 1969
Track 11OlympicNovember 13, 1967
Track 12Record Plant; Electric LadyMarch 24, 1970; June 1970
Track 13Electric LadyJuly 1, 1970
Track 14Electric LadyJune 17, July 19–20, & August 22, 1970
Track 15Record PlantMarch 23, 1970

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References

  1. ↑ McDermott 1997a, p. 1.
  2. ↑ McDermott 1997b, p. 4.
  3. 1 2 McDermott 1997a, pp. 3–20.
  4. ↑ McDermott 2013a, p. 13.
  5. 1 2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Jimi Hendrix: South Saturn Delta – Review". AllMusic . Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  6. 1 2 Christgau, Robert (December 2005). "Back Catalogue: Jimi Hendrix". Blender . New York. Retrieved March 27, 2013.
  7. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Muze. p. 249. ISBN   0195313739.
  8. ↑ Sinclair, Tom (October 10, 1997). "South Saturn Delta". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved August 11, 2015.
  9. 1 2 Wisdom, James P. "South Saturn Delta". Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on February 16, 2008. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
  10. ↑ Evans, Paul; Brackett, Nathan (2004). "Jimi Hendrix". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp.  374–75. ISBN   0-7432-0169-8 . Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  11. ↑ Fricke, David (December 25, 1997). "South Saturn Delta". Rolling Stone . Retrieved August 11, 2015.
  12. ↑ Truncated version released on Crash Landing as "With the Power"; full version released on Both Sides of the Sky
  13. ↑ Several Hendrix releases of "Bleeding Heart" credit Elmore James as the songwriter including the most recent one, Valleys of Neptune . However, James is not listed as such on the South Saturn Delta liner notes.
  14. ↑ An alternate mix was first released on Loose Ends (1974).

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