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Thursday, 1 October 2026

Santana - The Best Instrumentals (1997)











Tracklist
                                          
1.  Samba pa ti - 4:34
2.  Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile) - 5:01
3.  I Love You Much Too Much - 4:41
4.  Aqua Marine - 5:29
5.  Bella - 4:29
6.  Flor D'Luna (Moonflower) - 4:48
7.  Life Is a Lady / Holiday - 3:48
8.  Full Moon - 4:31
9.  Song of the Wind - 6:12
10.  Tales of Kilimanjaro - 3:25
11.  Love is You - 3:58
12.  Guru's Song - 3:02
13.  Treat - 4:43
14.  Blues for Salvador - 5:58
15.  Soul Sacrifice - 6:37


Companies, etc.

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Sony Music Entertainment (Germany) GmbH
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Copyright © – Sony Music Entertainment (Germany) GmbH
Distributed By – Sony Music
Published By – Petra Music
Published By – Light Music
Published By – MCA Music
Published By – Urmila Music
Published By – Lambert & Potter Music Co.
Published By – Paoli Rustichelli Music
Made By – Sony Music
Glass Mastered At – DADC Austria

Credits

Compiled By [Compilation By] – Jens Lorentzen
Cover, Design – Men At Work


Notes
Released: 1997
Series: Pop Shop Sony Music
Genre: Rock, Latin
Style: Soft Rock
Runtime: 1:11:16

Label - Sony Music Media 

Sunday, 22 December 2024

Santana - Lotus In Columbia (1973) (2-records) bootleg

posted by all-musicrecords
   
Recorded live at Carolina University Coliseum, Columbia, SC
March 8, 1973…Bootleg.

Lotus is a 1974 live album by the Latin rock band Santana, recorded at the Osaka Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan, Osaka, Japan in July 1973, during their Caravanserai Tour. 
"Lotus" is the first live album release by US Jazz rock/fusion act Santana. The album was recorded on the 3rd and 4th of July 1973 in Osaka, Japan and released through Colombia records in May 1974. 
The original vinyl version (which was meant to be a Japanese only release) is a trible vinyl release. 
The song selection comes from the albums "Abraxas (1970)", "Santana 3 (1971)", "Caravanserai (1972)" and "Welcome (1973)". 
The music on the album is focused on the instrumental jazz rock/fusion songs from the band´s discography while the already few vocal based tracks in the discography are even fewer on "Lotus". 
The most famous of the latter type "Black Magic Woman" is of course featured though. The musicianship is outstanding on the album.

Record 1

  1. Goimg Home /A-1 Funk / Every Step Of The Way – 15:46
  2. Samba Pa Ti – 8:48
  3. Look Up (To See What’s Coming Down) – 5:18
  4. Just In Time To See The Sun – 1:57 │
  5. Incident At Neshabur – 12:26
  6. Bambele – 5:38
  7. Stone Flower – 2:37
  8. Batacuda – 1:26
  9. Xibaba (She-Ba-Ba) – 4:18
  10. Stone Flower – 1:18

 Record 2

  1. Waiting – 4:42
  2. Castillos De Arena (part1) – 1:40
  3. Free Angela / Aranjuez – 9:20
  4. Mantra / Kyoto (part1) – 8:19
  5. Mantra / Kyoto (part2) – 1:22
  6. Castillos De Arena (part2) – 2:50
  7. Se A Cabo – 5:34
  8. Savor – 5:41
  9. Toussaint L’Overture – 7:07


Credits

Carlos Santana – Guitar
Jose “Chepito” – Percussion
Tom Coster – Keyboards
Richard Kermode – Keyboards
Armando Peraza – Percussion
Douglas Rauch – Bass
Michael Shrieve – Drums
Leon Thomas – Vocals

Notes
Release: 1973 / 2024
Recorded live at:  Carolina University Coliseum, Columbia, SC March 8, 1973
Genre:  Latin / Psychedelic Rock
Length:  1:46:07

Label - Full Album (Unofficial Release)

Monday, 2 December 2024

Santana - Lotus (1975) [3LP]

Lotus (Japanese: ロータスの伝説) is a 1974 live album by the Latin rock band Santana, recorded at the Osaka Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan, Osaka, Japan in July 1973, during their Caravanserai Tour. 
The Welcome album recording sessions were completed shortly before this concert, and that album was later released in November 1973. 
Lotus was originally released as a triple vinyl LP in Japan only. This version of the album was later released internationally.
The 1973 live recordings were mixed in 4-channel quadraphonic sound and released in the CBS Stereo Quadraphonic (SQ) matrix system. 

"Lotus" is the first live album release by US Jazz rock/fusion act Santana. The album was recorded on the 3rd and 4th of July 1973 in Osaka, Japan and released through Colombia records in May 1974. 
The original vinyl version (which was meant to be a Japanese only release) is a trible vinyl release. 
The song selection comes from the albums "Abraxas (1970)", "Santana 3 (1971)", "Caravanserai (1972)" and "Welcome (1973)". 
There are also a couple of new tracks that hadn´t appeared on any of the earlier studio albums. The lineup consists of a mix of the members from the original Santana group and the members of the post-"Caravanserai (1972)" Santana lineup.
The music on the album is focused on the instrumental jazz rock/fusion songs from the band´s discography while the already few vocal based tracks in the discography are even fewer on "Lotus". 
The most famous of the latter type "Black Magic Woman" is of course featured though. The musicianship is outstanding on the album. 
There is such an obvious joy about playing music which is contagious to say the least. The tracks from the excellent "Caravanserai (1972)" album are absolutely stunning in the live versions. 
A track like "Every Step of the Way" is simply smoking hot and about to catch fire, but the tracks from the other albums are excellent too. 
There is only one weak point about the album and that´s the 9:58 minute long drum solo. I have never found drum solos or any solos without music playing underneath very interesting and this time is no exception. 
The drum solo is of course played with virtuosic skill but I still find it hard to appreciate because it´s so long. Guitarist Carlos Santana is given lots of spotlight and his floating organic guitar solo style graces most songs. 
The latin percussion is as prominant as ever in the music and the keyboards/organ playing by Tom Coster really brings a lot to the sound too.


Side one
1.  Meditation  (from Love Devotion Surrender) - 1:40
2.  Going Home  (from Welcome) - 2:53
3.  A-1 Funk  (new track) - 3:13
4.  Every Step of the Way  (from Caravanserai) - 11:30

Side two
1.  Black Magic Woman  (from Abraxas) - 3:38
2.  Gypsy Queen  (from Abraxas) - 3:58
3.  Oye Como Va  (from Abraxas) - 5:47
4.  Yours Is the Light  (from Welcome) - 5:30
5.  Batukada  (new track) - 0:55
6.  Xibaba (She-Ba-Ba)  (new track) - 4:13

Side three
1.  Stone Flower (Introduction)  (from Caravanserai) - 1:14
2.  Waiting  (from Santana) - 4:14
3.  Castillos de Arena Part 1 (Sand Castle)  (new track)  - 2:51
4.  Free Angela  (new track) - 4:26
5.  Samba de Sausalito  (from Welcome) - 4:02

Side four
1.  Mantra  (from Welcome) - 7:17
2.  Kyoto (Drum Solo)  (new track) - 9:58
3.  Castillos de Arena Part 2 (Sand Castle)  (new track) - 1:13
4.  Se a Cabo  (from Abraxas) - 5:39

Side five
1.  Samba Pa Ti  (from Abraxas) - 8:56
2.  Savor  (from Santana) - 3:06
3.  Toussaint L'Overture  (from Santana III) - 7:40

Side six
1.  Incident at Neshabur  (from Abraxas) - 17:15


Notes
Released: 1975
Format:  3 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
Country:  Europe
Genre:  Jazz, Rock
Style:  Latin Jazz, Jazz-Rock, Psychedelic Rock

Label - CBS Records 

Tuesday, 3 May 2022

Santana - Milagro (1992)

posted by record facts

Milagro is the seventeenth studio album by Santana, released in 1992.
Milagro, which means “miracle” in Spanish, was dedicated to the lives of Miles Davis and Bill Graham, and was Santana’s first album on the Polydor label after twenty-two years with Columbia Records. The album reached 102 in the Billboard 200.

The band has been altered by official addition of frequent sideman Raul Rekow and Karl Perazzols, replacement of longtime percussionist Armando Peraza. But this septet is still led by Carlos Santana and keyboardist Chester Thompson, with Alex Ligertwood singing. The record has a somewhat elegiac tone, beginning with a stage introduction by the late promoter Bill Graham, who was Santana‘s mentor and unofficial manager, being dedicated to Graham and Miles Davis, who also had died since the last album, and featuring an excerpt from a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., solos taken from Davis and John Coltrane, and music written by Bob Marley, Coltrane, and Gil Evans. Despite the presence of all these heroic ghosts, however, Milagro is only an average Santana release, familiar-sounding but undistinguished, and it failed to arrest the band’s commercial slide,

Santana is the most successful practitioner of fusion because he understands the style not as a souped-up rock-jazz hybrid but as an embrace of musical pantheism. Elements of salsa, pop, blues, jazz, R&B, rock, world music and reggae work their way in and out of the arrangements on Milagro, due in no small part to the smarts of coproducer Chester Thompson, whose virtuoso keyboard work shares the soloing spotlight with Santana’s guitar.

Santana’s vision of fusion grew out of the same creative upheavals responsible for the social and political ferment of the Sixties and early Seventies. The difference between Santana and other guitarists, such as Alvin Lee, who first came to prominence as a result of the Woodstock documentary is that Santana never stopped considering his music an outgrowth of deeply held spiritual values.

Santana sees his music as an agent for political liberation and an expression of religious mysticism. He brings these elements into focus on Milagro, invoking the power of music to “free the people” one minute and likening Jesus Christ to Martin Luther King the next. His vision of Christ as an agent for justice stands in stark contrast to the fundamentalist cant underlying most North American Christian propaganda, extends his fascination with Eastern religions and marks a return to his own roots in liberation theology, an important philosophical strain of Latin American Catholicism.

On the musical front, changing labels has proven a tonic for Santana’s guitar playing. His attack is razor sharp, and his solos — on the title track, “Red Prophet,” “Gypsy/Grajonca” and “We Don’t Have to Wait” — rank among his best.

Milagro, which means “miracle,” is dedicated to two people who died last year and who were central to Santana’s life as an artist — Bill Graham, who gives the opening introduction, and Miles Davis, who plays a short, unaccompanied coda on the set-closing “A Dios.” It is a worthy tribute.


Track listing
  1. "Introduction   Bill Graham (Milagro)"  (M. Johnson, Bob Marley, Carlos Santana) – 7:34
  2. "Somewhere in Heaven"  (Alex Ligertwood, Santana) – 9:59
  3. "Saja/Right On"  (Joe Roccisano/Earl DeRouen, Marvin Gaye) – 8:51
  4. "Your Touch"  (Santana, Chester D. Thompson) – 6:34
  5. "Life Is for Living"  (Pat Sefolosha) – 4:39
  6. "Red Prophet" { Instrumental } (Benny Rietveld) – 5:35
  7. "Agua que va caer"  (Carlos Valdes, Eugene "Totico" Arango) – 4:22
  8. "Make Somebody Happy"  (Santana, Ligertwood) – 4:14
  9. "Free All the People (South Africa)"  (Jackie Holmes) – 6:04
  10. "Gypsy/Grajonca"  (Santana, Thompson) – 7:09
  11. "We Don't Have to Wait"  (Santana, Armando Peraza, Thompson) – 4:34
  12. "A Dios"  (Santana, John Coltrane, Gil Evans) – 1:21

Personnel

  • Carlos Santana — guitar, vocals
  • Chester D. Thompson — keyboards, horn/string arrangements, backing vocals
  • Benny Rietveld — bass
  • Walfredo Reyes, Jr. — Drum set, percussion
  • Raul Rekow — timbales, percussion, vocals
  • Karl Perazzo — timbales, guido, quinto, bongo, vocals
  • Billy Johnson — drums (“Right On” and “Your Touch”)
  • Tony Lindsay — vocals (“Life Is for Living”, “Make Somebody Happy”)
  • Alex Ligertwood — vocals (“Somewhere in Heaven”)
  • Larry Graham — vocals (“Right On”)
  • Rebeca Mauleon — piano (“Agua que va a caer”)
  • Wayne Wallace — trombone (“Agua que va caer”, “Free All the People” and “Milagro”)
  • Bill Ortiz — trumpet (“Agua que va caer”, “Free All the People” and “Milagro”)
  • Robert Kwock — trumpet (“Agua que va caer”, “Free All the people” and “Milagro”)
  • Melecio Magdaluyo — saxophone (“Agua que va caer”, “Free All the People” and “Milagro”)
  • Bad River Singers — vocal chant (“Agua que va caer”)
  • John Philip Shenale – string programming
  • Lygia Ferragallo – backing vocals

Notes
Released:  May 1992
Recorded at:   Studio The Plant Studios, Sausolito, California
Genre:   Latin rock
Length:  70:23

Label - Polydor Records

Friday, 18 December 2020

Santana - Welcome (1973)

Welcome is the fifth studio album by Santana, released in 1973. It followed the jazz-fusion formula that the preceding Caravanserai had inaugurated, but with an expanded and different lineup this time. Gregg Rolie had left the band along with Neal Schon to form Journey, and they were replaced by Tom Coster, Richard Kermode and Leon Thomas, along with guest John McLaughlin, who had collaborated with Carlos Santana on Love Devotion Surrender. 
Welcome also featured John Coltrane's widow, Alice, as a pianist on the album's opening track, "Going Home" and Flora Purim (the wife of Airto Moreira) on vocals. 
This album was far more experimental than the first four albums, and Welcome did not produce any hit singles. 

The mark that the recording of Caravanserai and Love Devotion Surrender had left on Carlos Santana was monumental. The issue of Welcome, the band's fifth album and its first with the new lineup, was a very ambitious affair and was regarded by traditional fans of Santana with even more strangeness than its two predecessors. 
However, issued as it was at the end of 1973, after Miles had won a Grammy for Bitches Brew and after Weather Report, Return to Forever, and Seventh House had begun to win audiences from the restless pool of rock fans, Santana began to attract the attention of critics as well as jazz fans seeking something outside of the soul-jazz and free jazz realms for sustenance. 
The vibe that carried over from the previously mentioned two albums plus the addition of vocalist Leon Thomas to the fold added a bluesy, tougher edge to the sound showcased on Caravanserai. The band's hard root was comprised of Carlos, drummer Michael Shrieve, bassist Doug Rauch, and keyboard king Tom Coster. 
Add to this the percussion section of Armando Peraza and Chepito Areas as well as a second keyboard by Richard Kermode, and space was the place. The John Coltrane influence that inspired the Santana/John McLaughlin pairing on Love Devotion Surrender echoes here on "Going Home," the album's opening track, arranged by Coltrane's widow, pianist and harpist Alice. 
The deeper jazz fusion/Latin funk edge is articulated on the track "Samba de Sausalito," and to a much more accessible degree on "Love, Devotion & Surrender," which features Thomas growling through the choruses and also features Wendy Haas, a keyboardist on Love Devotion Surrender who is enlisted here as a second vocalist. 
In fact, her pairing with Thomas on Shrieve's "When I Look Into Your Eyes" is nothing less than beatific. McLaughlin makes a return appearance here on the stunningly beautiful guitar spiritual "Flame Sky." Brazilian song diva Flora Purim is featured on "Yours Is the Light," a gorgeous Afro-Brazilian workout that embraces Cuba son, samba, and soul-jazz. 
Welcome also marked the first appearance of French soprano saxophonist Jules Broussard on a Santana date. He would later collaborate with Carlos and Alice Coltrane on Illuminations. Ultimately, Welcome is a jazz record with rock elements, not a rock record that flirted with jazz and Latin musical forms. 
It is understandable why Santana punters would continue to be disenchanted, however. Welcome was merely ahead of its time as a musical journey and is one of the more enduring recordings the band ever made. 
This is a record that pushes the envelope even today and is one of the most inspired recordings in the voluminous Santana oeuvre.


Track listing

1.  “Going Home” (Instrumental) – 4:10
2.  “Love, Devotion & Surrender” – 3:35
3.  “Samba de Sausalito” (Instrumental) – 3:08
4.  “When I Look into Your Eyes” – 5:49
5.  “Yours Is the Light” – 5:44
6.  “Mother Africa” (Instrumental) – 5:54
7.  “Light of Life” – 3:49
8.  “Flame – Sky” (Instrumental) – 11:32
9.  “Welcome” (Instrumental) – 6:28

2003 remastered CD edition bonus track
10.  “Mantra” – 6:10

 
Band Members
 
Additional musicians
 
Production
  • Glen Kolotkin – engineer
  • Bob Irwin – 2003 CD reissue producer
 
Notes

Released: November 9, 1973
Recorded: April to June 1973
Genre: Jazz fusion
Length: 56:51

Label - Columbia Records

Sunday, 20 November 2016

Santana - All That I Am (2005)

Santana is an American Latin rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1967 by Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana. 

All That I Am is the nineteenth studio album by Santana and follow-up to the band's 2002 Shaman.
The third time around is not a charm for Carlos Santana, who delivers his third straight star-studded, middle-of-the-road pop album in a row with 2005's All That I Am.
Like 2002's Shaman, this follows the blueprint that producer/record mogul Clive Davis laid down on 1999's Supernatural, which means that apart from a cut or two, Santana functions as a supporting musician to a parade of guest stars singing pop songs on his own album.
On Supernatural this worked not just because it was a relatively fresh concept that revitalized Santana, but because the guest stars were well chosen and the material was sharp, commercial, and memorable. Shaman was more uneven but it did have one great single in "The Game of Love," a song penned by professional songwriters and sung by Michelle Branch -- it didn't sound much like Santana, but it did make for excellent listening on adult contemporary radio.
Here, Santana and Davis try to make lightning strike again, having Branch sing the "Game of Love" sound-alike "I'm Feeling You," which she also had a hand in writing.
It's not bad, but it sounds like a third-generation photocopy, which is the problem with All That I Am in general: all the ideas and sounds are familiar, but not executed nearly as well as they were the first two times around. The stars don't shine as bright -- the biggest names here are Mary J. Blige, Big Boi, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, and the ubiquitous and obsequious will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas, all artists who never seem to turn down a chance to provide a cameo -- and the production is clean and safe, while the songs are professional, predictable, and pedestrian. Since none of the songs are bad and since the guest spots are neither embarrassing nor flashy, All That I Am never offends, but it never entertains, either: it simply exists. Sure, Santana has some nice playing scattered throughout the album -- his signature, rich, super-saturated tone is certainly the most commanding, memorable thing here -- but he never sounds engaged with the songs, he sounds simply like he's running wild over bright, sunny changes. Even with these nice moments,
All That I Am, like Supernatural and Shaman before it, is a deliberate pop album, which means Santana is in the background on his own record -- but the crucial difference with this album is that, unlike its two predecessors, it's not a good pop album, it's a bland, friendly affair that disappears into the ether the moment it's finishing playing.

Tracklist

1. "Hermes" – 4:08
       Written by Carlos Santana and S. Jurad
       Produced by Carlos Santana

2. "El Fuego" – 4:17
       Written by Carlos Santana, Jean Shepherd and Richard Shepherd
       Produced by Carlos Santana

3 ."I'm Feeling You" – 4:13  
      Featuring Michelle Branch and The Wreckers
      Written by Kara DioGuardi, John Shanks and Michelle Branch
      Produced by John Shanks and Kara DioGuardi

4. "My Man" – 4:37
      Featuring Big Boi and Mary J. Blige
      Written by Antwan Patton, Nsilo Reddick, Nicholas Sherwood and Rob Thomas
      Produced by Big Boi and The Beat Bullies

5. "Just Feel Better" – 4:12
       Featuring Steven Tyler
      Written by Jamie Houston, Buck Johnson and Damon Johnson
      Produced by John Shanks

6 ."I Am Somebody" – 4:02
      Featuring will.i.am
      Written by will.i.am and George Pajon, Jr.
      Produced by will.i.am
      Additional Production Lester Mendez
      This song is considered by most as a tribute to "I Am - Somebody", a poem by Reverend Jesse Jackson.

7 ."Con Santana" – 3:18
     Featuring Ismaïla and Sixu Toure, also known as Touré Kunda
     Written by Carlos Santana, Ismaïla Toure and Tidane "Sixu" Toure
     Produced by Carlos Santana

8 ."Twisted" – 5:11
      Featuring Anthony Hamilton
      Written by Dante Ross and Nandi Willis
      Produced by Dante Ross

9 ."Trinity" – 3:33
      Featuring Kirk Hammett and Robert Randolph
      Written by Carlos Santana and Michael Brook
      Produced by Carlos Santana
      This song is a tribute to the Pakistani musician Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and is a cover of his song Tere Bina

10 ."Cry Baby Cry" – 3:53
       Featuring Sean Paul and Joss Stone
       Written by Lester Mendez, Sean Paul, Kara DioGuardi and Jimmy Harry
       Produced and Arranged by Lester Mendez

11. "Brown Skin Girl" – 4:44
       Featuring Bo Bice
       Written by Jamie Houston
       Produced by Lester Mendez and Jamie Houston
       Vocal Arrangement by Jamie Houston

12 ."I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love" – 4:00
       Featuring Los Lonely Boys
       Written by Henry Garza, Ringo Garza and Joey Garza
       Produced by Carlos Santana
       Additional Production by John Proter and Los Lonely Boys

13 ."Da Tu Amor" – 4:03
       Written by Carlos Santana, Andy Vargas, and Gary Glenn
       Produced by Carlos Santana

Personnel
  • Carlos Santana – guitar, background vocals
  • Chester Thompson – organ
  • Benny Rietveld – bass guitar
  • Dennis Chambers – drums
  • Karl Perazzo – congas, timbales, percussion, background vocals
  • Raul Rekow – congas, background vocals
  • Jeff Cressman – trombone
  • Bill Ortiz – trumpet
Credits
Notes

Released: November 1, 2005 (U.S.)
Recorded:2004 - 2005
Genre: Latin rock
Length: 53:10

Label - Arista Records