New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Scattertunes Official Website) - ScatterTunes� the company that is revolutionizing music through its innovative and interactive V-Album technology, has teamed up with
Experience Hendrix, LLC to present five
Jimi Hendrix V-Album releases -Valleys of Neptune, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland and First Rays Of The New Rising Sun- on March 9, 2010. Included in these V-Albums are bonus features such as documentary videos, revised liner notes, photos, scans of handwritten lyrics and more (see below for full listing). ScatterTunes.comis the only place that fans can go to get these features in the exclusive V-Album format.
Janie Hendrix, President and CEO of Experience Hendrix says, "We're delighted that ScatterTunes is offering Hendrix fans an enhanced 'experience' in connection with these V-Albums. The additional content reflects the spirit of my brother's multi-dimensional presence that has been a touchstone for five generations of music lovers. This will be a real treat for Jimi Hendrix fans, both young and seasoned."
The Valleys of Neptune V-Album offers more than 60 minutes of previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix music, originally recorded and newly mixed by Hendrix's longtime engineer Eddie Kramer, who first worked with the guitarist on his smash 1967 debut Are You Experienced. Are You Experienced will also receive the V-Album treatment, along with its legendary follow-up Axis: Bold As Love,the epictour de forceElectric Ladyland, and Jimi's final masterpiece First Rays Of The New Rising Sun.
Valleys Of Neptune contains:
12 High-Quality MP3 Tracks (Including Seven Previously Unreleased Recordings)
Lyrics to All 12 Tracks
Digital Images of Select Handwritten Lyrics
Hi-Res Digital Photos
Digital CD Booklet
Links to Hendrix Merchandise
Video Links
Are You Experienced contains:
17 High-Quality MP3 Tracks
Lyrics to All 17 Tracks
Digital Images of Select Handwritten Lyrics
Hi-Res Digital Photos
Digital CD Booklet
Links to Hendrix Merchandise
17-Min. Documentary Video
Axis: Bold As Love contains:
13 High-Quality MP3 Tracks
Lyrics to All 13 Tracks
Digital Images of Select Handwritten Lyrics
Hi-Res Digital Photos
Digital CD Booklet
Links to Hendrix Merchandise
17-Min. Documentary Video
Electric Ladyland contains:
16 High-Quality MP3 Tracks
Lyrics to All 16 Tracks
Digital Images of Select Handwritten Lyrics
Hi-Res Digital Photos
Digital CD Booklet
Links to Hendrix Merchandise
12-Min. Documentary Video
First Rays Of The New Rising Sun contains:
17 High-Quality MP3 Tracks
Lyrics to All 17 Tracks
Digital Images of Select Handwritten Lyrics
Hi-Res Digital Photos
Digital CD Booklet
Links to Hendrix Merchandise
16-Min. Documentary Video
Additionally, Hendrix fans visiting this year's Red House Tour, a traveling multimedia museum of the guitar god's memorabilia, can purchase V-Album versions of all the albums in the Hendrix catalog on site and walk away with a CD for immediate listening pleasure. At the same time, they'll receive an email code to access all of the ScatterTunes features once they return to their own computers.
Utilizing ScatterTunes' proprietary iBoard software, V-Albums are intuitive, simple and user-friendly. The high-quality (320kb), non-DRM MP3 songs can be played within ScatterTunes, or exported into any MP3 player currently on the market (including an auto import feature to iTunes/iPod/iPhone). The iBoard also has an artist-branded concierge store, which displays products from multiple retailers as well as ticketing outlets. Finally, each V-Abum provides customized, multimedia e-postcards for sending recommendations to friends and family.
Other star artists recently receiving the V-Album treatment include John Mayer (Battle Studies), Dierks Bentley (Feel That Fire), Katy Perry (One of the Boys), Darius Rucker (Learn to Live), Trace Adkins (X)and more. Grammy-winning artist Sheryl Crow also recently issued the Deluxe Edition of her smash 1993 debut, Tuesday Night Music Club, as a V-Album through ScatterTunes and conveniently available for purchase on her Facebook profile. Crow says of the company, "We're so excited to be working with ScatterTunes, who have found a way to present my music in a way that matters to true fans and music lovers." With A-list talent such as Crow, Mayer and Hendrix, ScatterTunes is poised to bring back the album format in all its large-scale glory, along with all the latest in multimedia digital technology.
