The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s new Bold As Love boxset to include 28 unreleased tracks

On November 7, Experience Hendrix/Legacy Recordings will release a 5-LP/4-CD + Blu-ray boxset containing The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s landmark 1967 album Axis: Bold As Love in stereo, mono and Atmos formats, along with 40 bonus studio and live tracks, 28 of which are previously unreleased.

Listen to one of those previously unreleased tracks, “Stone Free / Up From The Skies (Demo)”, below:

Produced by Janie Hendrix, original Experience recording engineer Eddie Kramer, and John McDermott, Bold As Love includes stereo and mono mixes of Axis: Bold As Love, remastered from the original mixes created by Hendrix, Chas Chandler and Eddie Kramer. Kramer and engineer Chandler Harrod have also created a Dolby Atmos mix of the album.

The trove of previously unreleased tracks includes alternate takes recorded at London’s Olympic and Regent Studios, as well as performances from Top Of The Pops and Dee Time, Dutch TV programme Hoepla, and eight songs from a September 1967 concert in Stockholm.

The cover art incorporates a drawing done by Jimi when he was five years old. “I thought it was perfect for this project,” says Janie Hendrix. “It’s a colourful dragon that depicts exactly what the song ‘Bold As Love’ is talking about – the empowerment of each colour of the rainbow. I don’t believe there could be a better reflection of the message in the song.”

Pre-order Bold As Love here and check out the vinyl tracklisting below:

LP ONE (AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE ORIGINAL STEREO MIX)
SIDE A

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

SIDE B

1. YOU GOT ME FLOATIN’
2. CASTLES MADE OF SAND
3. SHE’S SO FINE
4. ONE RAINY WISH
5. LITTLE MISS LOVER
6. BOLD AS LOVE

LP TWO (AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE ORIGINAL MONO MIX)
SIDE A

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

SIDE B

1. YOU GOT ME FLOATIN’
2. CASTLES MADE OF SAND
3. SHE’S SO FINE
4. ONE RAINY WISH
5. LITTLE MISS LOVER
6. BOLD AS LOVE

LP THREE
SIDE A

1. MR. BAD LUCK [Take 6]*
2. SHE’S SO FINE [Take 4]*
3. BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP [Take 30]*
4. THE STARS THAT PLAY WITH LAUGHING SAM’S DICE [Paramount Studios]*
5. BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP [Instrumental]*
6. THE STARS THAT PLAY WITH LAUGHING SAM’S DICE [Instrumental]*

SIDE B

1. STONE FREE/UP FROM THE SKIES [Demo]*
2. UP FROM THE SKIES [Take 2]*
3. AIN’T NO TELLING [Demo]*
4. AIN’T NO TELLING [Take 12]*
5. LITTLE MISS LOVER [Demo]*
6. ONE RAINY WISH [Take 1]*
7. YOU GOT ME FLOATIN’ [Take 1]*
8. UNTITLED GUITAR EXPERIMENT*
9. CASTLES MADE OF SAND [Take 16]*

LP FOUR
SIDE A

1. BOLD AS LOVE [Take 19]*
2. WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW [Take 2]*
3. SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC [Take 2]*
4. LITTLE WING [Take 2]*
5. UNTITLED INSTRUMENTAL #1 [Take 3]*
6. UNTITLED INSTRUMENTAL #2 [Take 1]*

SIDE B

1. LITTLE MISS LOVER [Alternate Version]*
2. SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC [Take 4]*
3. WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW [Take 14]*
4. CASTLES MADE OF SAND [Backwards Guitar]*
5. ONE RAINY WISH [Alternate Version]*
6. BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP [Original Mono Mix]
7. THE STARS THAT PLAY WITH LAUGHING SAM’S DICE [Original Mono Mix]

LP FIVE
SIDE A

1. SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND [Sweden]
2. FIRE [Sweden]
3. THE WIND CRIES MARY [Sweden]
4. FOXEY LADY [Sweden]
5. HEY JOE [Sweden]
6. I DON’T LIVE TODAY [Sweden]

SIDE B

1. BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP [Sweden]
2. PURPLE HAZE [Sweden]
3. BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP [Dee Time]
4. PURPLE HAZE [Hoepla]*
5. FOXEY LADY [Hoepla]*
6. BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP [Top Of The Pops]

*Previously unreleased recording