Santana - Abraxas
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Artist: SantanaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-04-01
Music Label: Mobile Fidelity Koch
Soundtracks:
- Singing Winds, Crying Beasts
- Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen
- Oy Como Va
- Incident At Neshabur
- Se a Cabo
- Mother's Daughter
- Samba Pa Ti
- Hope You're Feeling Better
- El Nicoya
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Free Music Review: (4.5 stars) One of the best albums to come from the San Franscico scene
Hit: 5 Stars
And this is even better than the last one, or any other Santana album, for that matter! They're broadening out here, with some tracks even leaning towards fusion ("Incident at Neshabur") or even progressive rock ("Singing Winds, Crying Beasts"), and the branching out results in goodness - I especially dig "Singing Winds", an underrated song with a great atmosphere, though I also adore Rollie's piano solo on "Incident". Of course, the real selling point behind this is the pair of massive FM hits, which both are classics of the era. The group's creepy retelling of "Black Magic Woman" (with the rapid, fantastic guitar solo "Gypsy Queen" included on the end) is the bigger of the two, but my favorite is "Oye Como Va". It's not just because of Carlos, though his playing is up to his usual standard, but Gregg Rollie's organ solo is quite excellent too, and the percussion is awesome. And, of course, both of these songs are covers. Now, when they try to compose their own rock songs, things get a bit uglier. "Mother's Daughter" is poor generic blues complete with mock-Clapton vocals; "Hope You're Feeling Better" is a pale Hendrix imitation. But there are plenty of great moments to make up for that, especially Carlos' melodic solo "Samba Pa' Ti" (the obvious basis for the later "Europa") and the driving Latin rock of "Se a Cabo". It's not as consistent as the debut, III, or Caravanesari, but it hits higher, more frequent heights than any of them.
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