Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix released only four albums in his short lifetime, yet far more now bear his name. South Saturn Delta is the most recent in a line of recordings assembling previously unreleased or difficult-to-find material from the influential musician. The tracks on Delta are all studio recordings, but they have little else in common--B-sides, alternate versions and early demos complete...
Unlike the recently released First Rays of the New Rising Sun, which collected songs slated for an unfinished fourth studio album, Delta draws material from several different periods of Hendrix's career. Though First Rays rightly belongs in the top tier of Hendrix albums, Delta is neither coherent nor strong enough to reach that height...
Listeners expecting the consistent brilliance of the studio albums Hendrix completed will be disappointed--after all, the fact that Hendrix himself could have included these recordings on his albums is a sign of their lesser potential. Delta should serve as a supplement to a complete collection of Hendrix's studio recordings, one that already includes Are You Experienced?., Axis: Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland and First Rays...
Five years later, Malick followed his lavishly praised debut with the studio-financed Days of Heaven, an opaque allegory about migrant farm workers in Texas on the eve of World War I. It is so lyrically beautiful and narratively elliptical that its cast, which included Richard Gere and Sam Shepard, was upstaged by a field of wheat--which might sound like a knock on the film but is really a tribute to the quiet, meditative power of its best moments, of its preoccupation with the verities of the natural world. As one might assume from that description, Days of Heaven...
...should be increasing capacity, manning busy phones and responding to E-mail from us existing members. I'd describe AOL's popularity as miles wide but less than an inch deep! Many of us keep our accounts only because friends send us E-mail there. NEAL ROSCOE Studio City, California...