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Santana - Abraxas (1970)
Cover Front Album
Artist/Composer Santana
Format LP
Genre Rock
Label Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs
Index 1906
Collection Status In Collection
Packaging Vinyl Jacket
Musicians
Drums and Percussion Mike Shrieve
Percussion-Various Jose Areas
Percussion-Various Mike Carabello
Bass Guitar Dave Brown
Guitar-Electric Carlos Santana
Keyboards-Various Gregg Rolie
Piano Alberto Gianquinto
Unlisted Instrument Jose Areas
Unlisted Instrument Mike Carabello
Vocals Carlos Santana
Vocals Gregg Rolie
Credits
Songwriter Unknowne
Producer Bob Irwin
Track List
01 Singing Winds, Crying Beasts
02 Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen
03 Oye Como Va
04 Incident At Neshabur
05 Se A Cabo
06 Mother's Daughter
07 Samba Pa Ti
08 Hope You're Feeling Better
09 El Nicoya
10 Se A Cabo (Live)
11 Toussaint L'Overture (Live)
12 Gypsy Queen (Live)/Black Magic Woman
Personal Details
Links Amazon US
Details
Spars DDD
Rare No
Sound Stereo
UPC (Barcode) 074646549025
Notes
CK 65490 C1970/1998 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition, 24 - Bit Digitally Mastered, Complete with all original Artwork, Plus 3 Live Bonus Tracks (Previously Unreleased) The San Francisco Bay Area rock scene of the late '60s was one that encouraged radical experimentation and discouraged the type of mindless conformity that's often plagued corporate rock. When one considers just how different Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape and the Grateful Dead sounded, it becomes obvious just how much it was encouraged. In the mid-'90s, an album as eclectic as Abraxas would be considered a marketing exec's worst nightmare. But at the dawn of the 1970s, this unorthodox mix of rock, jazz, salsa and blues proved quite successful. Whether adding rock elements to salsa king Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va," tembracing instrumental jazz-rock on "Incident at Neshabur" and "Samba Pa Ti" or tackling moody blues-rock on Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman," the band keeps things unpredictable yet cohesive. Many of the Santana albums that came out in the '70s are worth acquiring, but for novices, Abraxas is an excellent place to start. [Columbia/Legacy's 1998 reissue of Abraxas featured three previously unreleased tracks - "Se A Cabo," "Toussaint L'Overture," "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen" - which were all recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall on April 18, 1970].