Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 334/500!
TAS Recommended! Rated a 'Best Audiophile Label Recording' in the November 2009 issue of The Absolute Sound!
Santana's Abraxas is now on Numbered Limited Edition Gold CD from Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs.
One of rockÂ’s true masterpieces, this stunning sophomore effort was released in September, 1970 to unanimous accolades and went to Number One on the Billboard Pop Album chart. Utilizing the studio more in overall production than on their debut (especially in mixing and using cross-fades) the band and producer Fred Catero (Janis Joplin, BS&T, Chicago) still maintained the street energy and ethnic roots, while elevating CarlosÂ’ guitar passages to god-like status; resulting in the pinnacle of their album output. Wicked re-worked arrangements of songs as dichotomatic as the connecting of Peter GreenÂ’s Black Magic Woman with Gabor SzaboÂ’s Gypsy Woman in medley, followed directly in sequence on side one with Tito PuenteÂ’s Oye Como Va (charting at #13), was both brilliant and on-par with anything going down in music at the time, period.
"Black Magic Woman," the Top Five hit from Abraxas, is definitive Santana: Afro-Latin grooves and piercing lyrical psychedelic blues guitar. It was a cover of a Fleetwood Mac song written by one of Carlos Santana's guitar heroes, Peter Green. The album's other hit was also a cover: Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va." - www.rollingstone.com
Features:
• Limited Edition
• Individually Numbered Japanese Mini-LP Sleeve
• 24 Karat Gold - Ultradisc II
Selections:
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. Nicoya
TAS Recommended! Rated a 'Best Audiophile Label Recording' in the November 2009 issue of The Absolute Sound!
Santana's Abraxas is now on Numbered Limited Edition Gold CD from Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs.
One of rockÂ’s true masterpieces, this stunning sophomore effort was released in September, 1970 to unanimous accolades and went to Number One on the Billboard Pop Album chart. Utilizing the studio more in overall production than on their debut (especially in mixing and using cross-fades) the band and producer Fred Catero (Janis Joplin, BS&T, Chicago) still maintained the street energy and ethnic roots, while elevating CarlosÂ’ guitar passages to god-like status; resulting in the pinnacle of their album output. Wicked re-worked arrangements of songs as dichotomatic as the connecting of Peter GreenÂ’s Black Magic Woman with Gabor SzaboÂ’s Gypsy Woman in medley, followed directly in sequence on side one with Tito PuenteÂ’s Oye Como Va (charting at #13), was both brilliant and on-par with anything going down in music at the time, period.
"Black Magic Woman," the Top Five hit from Abraxas, is definitive Santana: Afro-Latin grooves and piercing lyrical psychedelic blues guitar. It was a cover of a Fleetwood Mac song written by one of Carlos Santana's guitar heroes, Peter Green. The album's other hit was also a cover: Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va." - www.rollingstone.com
Features:
• Limited Edition
• Individually Numbered Japanese Mini-LP Sleeve
• 24 Karat Gold - Ultradisc II
Selections:
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. Nicoya
