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‘His spirit is everywhere’: the fascinating story of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady studio
New documentary takes a look back to the late 60s when the star commissioned a recording studio that has since taken on a life of its own
A reporter from the New York Times struggled to describe the club in a 1968 story, writing, it “speaks to the ancient human desire to shed consciousness, to plug into some warm large Other, to regain the indiscriminate bliss of babyhood, to – one phrase for it – get zonked”. Countering the cold studio rooms common to the day, Electric Lady would be warm, inviting and, at Hendrix’s instruction, full of feminine curves for the walls, further softened with carpet to make the space appear to evolve and envelope. Photograph: AbramoramaWithin weeks, not only did Kramer begin the massive task of whipping the wealth of unreleased Hendrix music into shape, he began producing other projects at the studio, including Carly Simon’s debut album, which became a huge hit.
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