For You Lot Santana - 1970 [1998] Abraxas

Abraxas is the minute studio album past times Latin stone band Santana, released inward September 1970. In 2016, the album was selected for preservation inward the National Recording Registry due to its "cultural, historic, or artistic significance. The championship of the album originates from a employment inward Hermann Hesse's book, Demian, quoted on the album's dorsum cover: "We stood earlier it together with began to freeze within from the exertion. We questioned the painting, berated it, made love to it, prayed to it: We called it mother, called it whore together with slut, called it our beloved, called it Abraxas...."

The album encompass features the 1961 ikon Annunciation past times German-French painter Mati Klarwein. According to the artist, it was i of the kickoff paintings he did afterward relocating to New York City. Carlos Santana reportedly noticed it inward a magazine together with asked that it last on the encompass of the band's upcoming album. Abraxas is directly considered to characteristic a classic of rock-album covers.

Santana's 1970 follow-up to their Woodstock-propelled nail '69 debut flora leader Carlos Santana farther expanding his San Francisco group's already wide musical boundaries. To wit: ii hitting singles that emanated from contrary ends of the spectrum--"Black Magic Woman," originally written together with recorded past times English linguistic communication blues-rock guitarist Peter Green together with Fleetwood Mac, together with New York Latin percussionist/dance music Rex Tito Puente's infectious "Oye Como Va." Tying blues, rock, together with salsa together inward i pancultural package, Abraxas also featured such standout tracks equally "Gypsy Queen" together with "Singing Winds, Crying Beasts." The latter underscored the growing Eastern sensibilities of guitarist Santana.

The San Francisco Bay Area stone scene of the slow '60s was i that encouraged radical experimentation together with discouraged the type of mindless conformity that's oft plagued corporate rock. When i considers merely how unlike Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, together with the Grateful Dead sounded, it becomes obvious merely how much it was encouraged. In the mid-'90s, an album equally eclectic equally Abraxas would last considered a marketing exec's worst nightmare. But at the dawn of the 1970s, this unorthodox mix of rock, jazz, salsa, together with blues proved quite successful. Whether adding stone elements to salsa Rex Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va," embracing instrumental jazz-rock on "Incident at Neshabur" together with "Samba Pa Ti," or tackling moody blues-rock on Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman," the band keeps things unpredictable all the same cohesive. Many of the Santana albums that came out inward the '70s are worth acquiring, but for novices, Abraxas is an first-class house to start.

This is i of those timeless Classics that gets improve together with improve equally fourth dimension goes by...Nearly l years on I never tire of the depth, beat together with vitality of this album together with it sounds equally fresh equally it did inward the 70,s.
As a participant together with a band they apparently matured together with perfected their interplay over the ensuing decades but never convey they sounded equally last together with alongside it equally on this their sec album , considered past times many an all fourth dimension Gem, together with considered past times close Santana peers equally their finest hr together with sure enough commercially i of their close successful.

When i listens to BLACK MAGIC WOMAN, SE Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 CABO, OYE COMO VA, the incredible INCIDENT AT NESHABUR together with the all fourth dimension fave SAMBA PA TI, how tin anyone dubiety the sheer brilliance together with lineament of this album?? THIS is SANTANA at their real very best!!

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Tracks Listing:

1. Singing Winds, Crying Beasts (4:48)
2. Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen (5:17)
3. Oye Como Va (4:17)
4. Incident At Neshabur (4:58)
5. Se Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Cabo (2:49)
6. Mother's Daughter (4:25)
7. Samba Pa Ti (4:46)
8. Hope You're Feeling Better (4:10)
9. El Nicoya (1:29)
Bonus Tracks on 1998 Legacy remaster:
10. Se Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Cabo (Live *) (3:47)
11. Toussaint L'Overture (Live *) (4:52)
12. Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen (Live *) (4:57)

* Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, april 18, 1970.

Line-up / Musicians:

- Carlos Santana / guitars, vocals
- Gregg Rolie / keyboards, vocals, arrangements
- David Brown / bass
- Michael Shrieve / drums
- Michael Carabello / congas, arrangements
- Jose 'Chepito' Areas / timbales, congas, arrangements
With:
- Alberto Gianguinto / pianoforte (4)
- Rico Reyes / vocals (3,9), percussion (9), arrangements