Up from the Skies

"Up from the Skies"
Spanish single picture sleeve
Single by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
from the album Axis: Bold as Love
B-side"One Rainy Wish"
ReleasedFebruary 26, 1968 (1968-02-26)
RecordedOctober 29, 1967
StudioOlympic, London
GenrePsychedelic rock, jazz fusion[1]
Length2:55[2]
LabelReprise
Songwriter(s)Jimi Hendrix
Producer(s)Chas Chandler
Experience US singles chronology
"Foxey Lady"
(1967)
"Up from the Skies"
(1968)
"All Along the Watchtower"
(1968)

"Up from the Skies" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix. Recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1967, it was released on their second album Axis: Bold as Love. The lyrics reflect Hendrix's interest in science fiction and relate an extraterrestrial visitor's curiosity about life on Earth. Musically, it incorporates elements of jazz, particularly in drummer Mitch Mitchell's use of brushes.

In 1968, the Experience's American record company, Reprise Records, released the song as a single, which reached number 82 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[3]

  1. ^ Shadwick, Keith (2003). Jimi Hendrix: Musician. Backbeat Books. p. 129. ISBN 0-87930-764-1.
  2. ^ From original US Reprise Records single
  3. ^ Shapiro, Harry; Glebbeek, Caesar (1995). "Appendix 1: Music, Sweet Music: The Discography". Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin. pp. 222, 223, 529. ISBN 0-312-13062-7.