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Abraxas (Digipak) (Remaster) (Import) (CD)

By: Santana (Artist)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Abraxas (Digipak) (Remaster) (Import) (CD) Album By Santana (Artist)
1   Singing Winds Crying Beasts  
2   Black Magic Woman (Gypsy Queen)  
3   Oye Como Va  
4   Incident At Neshabur  
5   Se A Cabo  
6   Mother's Daughter  
7   Samba Pa Ti  
8   Hope You're Feeling Better  
9   El Nicoya  
10   Se A Cabo (Bonus)  
11   Toussaint L'Overture (Bonus)  
12   Black Magic Woman (Gypsy Queen) (Bonus)  
13   Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen (live/bonus track)  
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (12/24/70, p. 54) - "...On ABRAXAS, Santana is a popularized Mongo Santamaria and they might do for Latin music what Chuck Berry did for the blues....a total boogie and the music is right from start to finish."
Q (5/00, p.131) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Displays even more grace and power...[than their] fresh, fierce debut..."
Vibe (12/99, p.156) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Musician (7/98, pp.86-88) - "...Sony Legacy's sonic wizards have made...[Santana's] first three albums reappear, each appended with additional live recordings....epochal works...an explosive fusion of Hispanic-edged rock, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and interstellar improvisation..."

Review

Rolling Stone (12/24/70, p.54) - "...On ABRAXAS, Santana is a popularized Mongo Santamaria and they might do for Latin music what Chuck Berry did for the blues....a total boogie and the music is right from start to finish."
Q (5/00, p.131) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Displays even more grace and power...[than their] fresh, fierce debut..."
Vibe (12/99, p.156) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Musician (7/98, pp.86-88) - "...Sony Legacy's sonic wizards have made...[Santana's] first three albums reappear, each appended with additional live recordings....epochal works...an explosive fusion of Hispanic-edged rock, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and interstellar improvisation..."

Product note

Available on Mini Disc on Columbia (30130).
NOTES:
Also available in a 3-pack with SANTANA (1st LP) and SANTANA (3rd LP).
Santana: Carlos Santana (vocals, guitar); Gregg Rolie (vocals, keyboards); Dave Brown (bass); Mike Shrieve (drums); Jose Areas (timbales, congas); Mike Carabello (congas).
Additional personnel: Rico Reyes (vocals, percussion); Alberto Gianquinto (piano).
Reissue producer: Bob Irwin.
Recorded at Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco and Pacific Recording, San Mateo, California, and live at The Royal Albert Hall, London, England on April 18, 1970. Includes liner notes by Ben Fong-Torres.
Santana's initial trio of albums still sound incredibly alive and exciting. ABRAXAS is the best of the three as it imbues the Latin fusion of their debut with smooth edges. The relaxed opening elegantly slips into "Black Magic Woman," the finest ever interpretation of a Peter Green song. "Se A Cabo," "El Nicoya" and the memorable "Oye Como Va" give us the quota of Latin rock. The album's star turn is the beautifully erotic "Samba Pa Ti," which features a superb guitar solo that oozes the sexuality blatantly depicted by the Mati cover illustration.

Title Note

This limited edition digipak includes original artwork and remastered material.

ABRAXAS, the second album by the original (and arguably most powerful) Santana line-up, proved the band's commercial breakthrough. The album's contains two of the group's biggest hits, "Black Magic Woman," a slinky, smooth-edged interpretation of the song written by Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green, and their take on Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va," which injects Carlos Santana's stinging guitar leads into a surging salsa groove. The band's unique, genre-blurring approach makes these singles--and everything else here--unlike anything that had been heard before.

The opener, "Singing Winds, Crying Beasts," showcases Carlos Santana's passionate, soulful six-string mastery over a drifting, psychedelic backdrop. The album ranges in feel, encompassing furiously propulsive jams ("Se A Cabo"), low-key Brazilian grooves ("Samba Para Ti"), and jazzy instrumentals ("Incident at Neshabur"). All the elements that made Santana's debut dazzling--roiling, polyrhythmic percussion, dense, pancultural influences, virtuoso guitar work--are here--sharpened and painted with the rich, heady sound of late-'60s San Francisco (Santana was just as exploratory and innovative as their hometown cohorts the Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Airplane). ABRAXAS remains a seminal Latin-rock release, and one of the undisputed classics of the era.

Album Description

ABRAXAS, the second album by the original (and arguably most powerful) Santana line-up, proved the band's commercial breakthrough. The album's contains two of the group's biggest hits, "Black Magic Woman", a slinky, smooth-edged interpretation of the song written by Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green, and their take on Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va", which injects Carlos Santana's stinging guitar leads into a surging salsa groove. The band's unique, genre-blurring approach makes these singles--and everything else here--unlike anything that had been heard before.
The opener, "Singing Winds, Crying Beasts", showcases Carlos Santana's passionate, soulful six-string mastery over a drifting, psychedelic backdrop. The album ranges in feel, encompassing furiously propulsive jams ("Se A Cabo"), low-key Brazilian grooves ("Samba Para Ti"), and jazzy instrumentals ("Incident at Neshabur"). All the elements that made Santana's debut dazzling--roiling, polyrhythmic percussion, dense, pancultural influences, virtuoso guitar work--are here--sharpened and painted with the rich, heady sound of late-'60s San Francisco (Santana was just as exploratory and innovative as their hometown cohorts the Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Airplane). ABRAXAS remains a seminal Latin-rock release, and one of the undisputed classics of the era.

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