MEDIUM Vinyl Record WEIGHT 180gr (black Vinyl) 33rpm CONDITION sealed COVER Gatefold CONDITION COVER M mint COVER DAMAGES No, we take care about that SERIALNUMBER Yes LIMITED Yes MISCELLANEOUS Stereo MUSICIAN HOMEPAGEsantana.com
Carlos Santana - lead guitar, vocals, percussion
Neal Schon - guitar
Gregg Rolie - organ, electric piano, vocals, piano
Douglas Rauch - bass, guitar
Douglas Rodrigues - guitar
Wendy Haas - piano
Tom Rutley - acoustic bass
Michael Shrieve - drums, percussion
José "Chepito" Areas - percussion, congas, timbales, bongos
James Mingo Lewis - percussion, congas, bongos, vocals, acoustic piano
Armando Peraza - percussion, bongos
Hadley Caliman - sax, flute
Rico Reyes - vocals
Lenny White - castanets
Tom Coster - electric piano
Tom Harrell - orchestra arrangement
eternal caravan of reincarnation (instrumental) - 4:28
waves within - 3:54
look up (to see what's coming down) - 3:00
just in time to see the sun - 2:18
song of the wind (instrumental) - 6:04
all the love of the universe - 7:40
future primitive - 4:12
stone flower - 6:15
la fuente del ritmo - 4:34
every step of the way - 9:05
To attempt to categorise Carlos Santana’s music is, for the prophets of rock music, rather like dancing on the edge of a volcano
While the New York Times acclaimed the band as a reincarnation of Dizzy Gillespie’s Cuban-jazz bigband from the end of the Forties, the specialist magazine Rolling Stone spoke of a »methadrine trip without visions«
Organ-player Gregg Rolie offered a very simple explanation of the origins of the highly differentiated sound colouring and the throb and chirp of the Afro-Cuban polyrhythms: he succinctly remarked that each member of the multi-cultural band »just played the music which he had grown up with«
Just how thrilling this sounds is already evident from the first number on the disc, with its sounds of nature, twisted rhythms, and little snatches of melody, which – as in several other titles – remains spellbinding even without the fascinating drive of Santana’s lead-sound
Of course there is plenty of solo material on the guitar which manifests itself in exuberant improvisations with a fusion of rock, salsa and jazz elements
When listening to this well-oiled rhythm machine, one quite rightly gets the impression that this unique band has stretched itself to its limits, and it is not by mere coincidence that they split up shortly afterwards
What has remained is one of the most powerful Santana records ever made
MFSL's audiophile reissue offers an improved sense of intimacy, warmth and tonality, and invites you to listen again and again, for there is so much to discover in this extraordinary world of sound
RECORDING February 21 - May 5 1972 at Columbia Studios San Francisco, California ENGINEERING Glen Kolotkin, Mike Larner LABEL Columbia RE MASTERING Krieg Wunderlich, Rob LoVerde MASTER SOURCE 1/4" / 15 IPS Analog Master to DSD 64 to Analog Console to Lathe RE RELEASED 2024 AVERAGE RATING 4.87 Stars out of 5 PRESSING by Fidelity Record Pressing MADE IN USA STYLE Pop / Rock / Jazz / Latin Jazz AVAILABLE as long as inventory stock
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