Best Instrumentals - Santana

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...In my humble opinion, Santana's second album "Abraxas" is one of the best guitar based albums I have ever heard. The amazing cover of Fleetwood Macs "Black Magic Woman" is well complimented with other songs on the album - some vocal - some instrumental. These songs all come together well to make a brilliant album. To the new Santana fan, his newest album "Supernatural" is a break with his past - heavy use of vocalists and less percussion is an example of this. I highly recommend Abraxas to everybody - there is something for everyone in this seminal 44 minutes. I would recommend this album to be listened while calm - as many of the songs are slow and mellow. The young listener might not appreciate this album, but anybody over the age of 12 really should by this album and cherish it as a true great.... Read review

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...***INTRO*** I bought my CD version of Santana's SUPERNATURAL from a record store in Covent Garden London for £11.99 around about 2000 A.D. I decided to upgrade from tape to CD and decided I needed some Santana, I noticed this on special offer. It featured some artists I noticed recently on the scene including Lauryn Hill and Eric Clapton. The cover is exceedingly colourful and the package includes a booklet packed with information and colour as well (art adopted from the original painting "Mumbo jumbo". ***ABOUT SANTANA*** The latest line up of Santana (there have been many) includes Carlos Santana, Chester Thompson, Raul Rekow, Karl Perazzo, Tony Lindsay, Benny Rietveld, Rodney Holmes. Instruments, drums, percussion, guitars, keyboards. Santana was born in a Mexican village of Autlan. 1966 debut performance of Santana Blues Band... Read review

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Advantages: Carlos back to form with super collaboration album
Disadvantages: A couple of weaker tracks

...Are you wondering why there has been such a long gap from Santana’s last big-selling album until the Grammy award winning Supernatural’? Well, me too. As someone old enough to remember the first album successes in the late 1960s based on the groundbreaking Santana’ and Abraxas’ dear Carlos seemed to lose that spark of originality that made his music so enjoyable. It was Santana who first fused the African rhythms into guitar rock and with a band which was so musically tight and focused they were effortless in their playing. Early album classics Jingo’ and Oye Como Va’ led an early appreciation in strong pounding rhythmic rock and knocked at the convention that popular rock music had to be in English. Add to this the instrumental masterpieces like Samba Pa Ti’ where exceptional musical virtuoso playing is used within a beautifully... Read review

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