“Castles Made Of Sand” by Jimi Hendrix

"Castles Made of Sand" sits on Axis: Bold as Love, the Jimi Hendrix Experience's second album from 1967, and it's Hendrix at his most private, sketching scenes from his own childhood in quick, sad strokes. The band started and finished it in a single day at Olympic Sound Studios in London, October 29, 1967, near the very end of the album sessions, with manager Chas Chandler producing and Eddie Kramer engineering. It was mixed at Olympic two days later.

This is psychedelic rock with its voice lowered. The guitar curls and drifts instead of roaring, and Hendrix sings like a man leafing through old memories, catching the cruel little ironies that life hands out and never quite explains. His biographers have praised it as a sharply observed piece of work.

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