Artist: SANTANA
Album: ABRAXAS VINYL RE-ISSUE (LP BLACK)

Release date: 1970/ 2016
EAN/UPS: 888751942912
Media type: LP

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.


SIDE ONE:

1 Singing Winds, Crying Beasts 00:04:51
2 Black Magic Woman/ Gypsy Queen 00:05:18
2.1     Black Magic Woman
2.2     Gypsy Queen

3 Incident at Neshabur     00:04:57
4 Incident at Neshabur 00:04:57

SIDE TWO:

5 Se a Cabo 00:02:50
6 Mother's Daughter 00:04:25
7 Samba Pa Ti 00:04:45
8 Hope You're Feeling Better 00:04:08
9 El Nicoya 00:01:30