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                                                                                     PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 7 March 2018

                                                                      Review: Jimi Hendrix studio


                                                                      archives plucked for new album




                                                                      By PABLO GORONDI
                                                                      Associated Press
                                                                      Elvis  has  left  the  building
                                                                      but  Jimi  is  still  busy  in  the
                                                                      studio. Or so it would seem
                                                                      from  the  staggering  num-
                                                                      ber of posthumous Hendrix
                                                                      albums  that  record  labels,
                                                                      bootleggers and — for the
                                                                      past  two  decades  —  his
                                                                      family have been releasing
                                                                      since his death in 1970.
             In this Nov. 20, 2014 file photo, cellist Yo-Yo Ma rehearses Pro-  "Both  Sides  of  the  Sky"  is
            kofiev's Symphony Concerto for cello and orchestra at Sympho-  billed as the last in a trilogy
            ny Hall in Boston.                                        gathering assorted Hendrix
                                                     Associated Press  studio recordings, following
                                                                      2010's "Valleys of Neptune"
            Yo-Yo Ma performs                                         and  2013's  "People,  Hell
                                                                      and Angels." Nearly the full
            for California siblings                                   batch comes from sessions
                                                                      at New York's Record Plant
                                                                      between  Jan.  1968  and
            held captive                                              Feb. 1970.
                                                                      Ten  of  the  13  tracks  are
                                                                      billed  as  previously  unre-
                                                                      leased, though several are   This cover image released by Experience Hendrix/Legacy Re-
                                                                                                   cordings shows "Both Sides of the Sky," by Jimi Hendrix.
            CORONA,  Calif.  (AP)  —  Turpin,  have  pleaded  not     alternate  or  instrumental                                          Associated Press
            World-famous  cellist  Yo-Yo  guilty  to  torture  and  other   versions  of  known  Hendrix
            Ma held a special concert  charges.  The  Turpins  were   tracks.                      very  CSN&Y.  Or,  rather,  Wing."
            for  the  California  siblings  arrested  in  January  after   A  take  on  Joni  Mitchell's  CSNY&H.               "Power  of  Soul"  was  mixed
            who  authorities  said  were  their  17-year-old  daughter   "Woodstock," recorded just  Lonnie  Youngblood  sings  by Eddie Kramer and Hen-
            starved  and  shackled  to  escaped  from  their  home    42  days  after  the  end  of  and plays the sax on "Geor-  drix at his own Electric Lady
            their beds by their parents.  in the city of Perris. Authori-  the  festival,  features  Hen-  gia  Blues,"  while  Johnny  Studios  just  weeks  before
            City of Corona Mayor Karen  ties  said  the  home  reeked   drix  on  bass,  with  vocals  Winter  contributes  his  usu-  his  death.  Hendrix  was
            Spiegel says Ma performed  of  human  waste  and  the     and  organ  by  Stephen  ally excellent slide guitar to  known to be a perfection-
            Friday  at  the  Corona  Re-  evidence of starvation was   Stills. It sounds like a demo  "Things I Used to Do."    ist  and  maybe  he'd  have
            gional Medical Center. The  obvious, with the oldest of   of  the  track  released  by  "Sweet  Angel,"  the  oldest  continued  tweaking  the
            hospital posted a photo of  13 siblings weighing just 82   Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young  track  here  and  the  only  complex,  upbeat,  opti-
            Ma on Twitter and thanked  pounds.  An  attorney  for     some  five  months  later.  one recorded in London, is  mistic  song,  but  it  seems
            him  for  sharing  his  love  of  the adult siblings didn't im-  Hendrix  switches  to  guitar  an  instrumental  version  of  to  provide  the  clearest
            music with the siblings. Their  mediately respond to a re-  on  another  Stills  tune,  "$20  "Angel,"  a  beautiful  ballad  sample of what may have
            parents,  David  and  Louise  quest for comment.q         Fine,"  which  also  sounds  and close relation to "Little  come next.q


            Danny Glover shouted down at Airbnb rally by labor activists



            By DAVID KLEPPER             Trades  Council,  a  leading  bate  over  regulating  the  away  affordable  housing  "We need our voices to be
             Associated Press            opponent of Airbnb.          popular online home rental  and  displacing  tenants,  heard,"  said  Joy  Williams,
            ALBANY,  N.Y.  (AP)  —  Dan-  "You used to be on the right  service.  Critics  of  the  San  especially  for  low-income  who  said  she  faces  up  to
            ny  Glover  was  shouted  side!" one yelled.              Francisco-based  compa-      people of color."            $65,000  in  fines  after  she
            down  at  a  rally  for  Airbnb  Glover, the star of the "Le-  ny  say  it  is  reducing  hous-  Two years ago, under pres-  listed two units she owns in
            hosts in the New York state  thal  Weapon"  series,  tried  ing  options  and  driving  up  sure  from  the  union,  the  Harlem on Airbnb.
            Capitol  Tuesday  when  ac-  to continue his remarks but  costs  as  landlords  choose  state Legislature and Dem-  The  legislation  now  pend-
            tivists working on behalf of  left the rally as the shouting  short-term   Airbnb   users  ocratic Gov. Andrew Cuo-  ing  before  lawmakers  —
            a union for hotel workers in-  continued. He later told The  over long-term tenants. The  mo  passed  some  of  the  and  supported  by  Airbnb
            filtrated the event and be-  Associated  Press  that  he  Hotel Trades Council also is  toughest rules for short-term  —  would  roll  back  many
            gan  heckling  the  71-year-  supports  Airbnb  because  opposed to what it sees as  rentals  in  the  nation,  mak-  of  those  rules  and  impose
            old actor.                   it  provides  everyday  peo-  unfair competition.         ing  it  illegal  to  rent  out  an  new  regulations,  including
            Glover  had  just  began  ple  with  a  technologically  "I  understand  Mr.  Glover  is  entire apartment in a multi-  a  ban  prohibiting  anyone
            speaking  at  the  event  innovative  way  to  make  wealthy  and  famous  and  unit building for less than 30  from listing more than one
            when the protesters began  ends  meet  in  cities  that  companies ask him for en-     days.  Officials  in  New  York  property on the website.
            yelling  over  him,  accusing  only grow more expensive.  dorsements  all  the  time,"  City were given the power  "Airbnb is everywhere in the
            the  longtime  liberal  activ-  "I'm  talking  about  empow-  said  Tyrone  Connell,  a  to  impose  hefty  fines  on  world," said state Sen. John
            ist  of  betraying  minorities  ering people," he said.   member  of  the  union  and  violators.                   Bonacic, a Republican and
            and  the  poor  by  working  Tuesday's  pro-Airbnb  rally,  one of those who heckled  Many  of  the  hosts  who  the sponsor of the bill in the
            as  a  paid  adviser  to  Airb-  which   featured   several  Glover. "But in this case, he's  gathered  in  Albany  on  Senate.  "Why  can't  it  be
            nb. Hecklers said the effort  dozen  Airbnb  hosts,  high-  working  for  Airbnb  whose  Tuesday said the rules must  successful in New York?"
            was organized by the Hotel  lighted the contentious de-   business  is  built  on  taking  be changed.              q
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