Jimi Hendrix — Rainbow Bridge

This record is from the soundtrack of a film with the same name. It's Hendrix. That man who was the black sun of the rock movement, the genius electric - mutant. He was (superlative) good. The space left from his death is pain. Most of the tracks were recorded '69-'70. The music has an unfrenzied cool; but all the Hendrix power. All but Hear My Train A Comin recorded in studio. The sound's fine; really integrated electronic effects. Hendrix moves through beautiful stereo space. There's another version of the Star-spangled Banner. Away from the violent explosion of the Woodstock version (and that is genius) to an inner contained sound mystic and golden but falling into dissolution. It's superb. The agony of unfulfillment. No rock musician has touched Hendrix. It's that simple. He's that great.

— Rex Halliday