Vocalist Erika Stucky, guitarist Christy Doran, drummer and percussionist Fredy Studer and e-bass legend Jamaladeen Tacuma, explore the music of guitar-God Jimi Hendrix, on this follow-up to their 2005 album 'Jimi' (with Tacuma replacing Kim Clarke on bass duties). <p>"We absolutely wanted to make a studio recording. To that end, Erika, Fredy and I prepared ourselves for a year, met once a month, created ideas and tried things out," Christy Doran explained the motives for the ambitious project. In any case, the Swiss-American all-star band did not want to jazz up the master's work in a complicated fashion. "We are trying to communicate the spirit and the energy of his music with the experience of today's music," Doran emphasised.</p> <p>The result is an album that refreshingly rocks, but without falling into the usual superficial pattern of the genre. This is mainly due to the 7/8 and 5/4 times, the highly complex chords that Doran produces on the stratocaster, the virtuoso yet melodic bass playing of Ornette Coleman disciple Tacuma, which whisks away everything reminiscent of Noel Redding within a bar, as well as the nested, demoniacally haunting grooves of Studer, in which everything - true to the Hendrix motto - still sounds easy and comprehensible.</p> <p>Personnel: Christy Doran (electric and acoustic guitar), Erika Stucky (vocals, toy-instruments), Fredy Studer (drums, percussion), Jamaaladeen Tacuma (electric bass, vocals)</p>
