Album Club
01-04-2015, 18:13
Album Club, April 2015: Santana – ‘Abraxas’
April’s Album Club choice comes courtesy of Barry, who due to a ‘no show’ has stepped in at the last minute with Santana’s ‘Abraxas’. Please listen to the album in its entirety before you vote.
Santana – ‘Abraxas’
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61iD1mqjVvL._SY355_.jpg
The version I used is the ‘Vinyl Classics’ re-master: Sony Columbia COL 489543 2 (1998)
This is the second album recorded by Santana in 1970 and was the one, which in the opinion of many propelled Santana to global stardom.
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What I like about this album is the combination of Afro-Caribbean music with that of Mexican mariachi and Latin American music. In particular, I love the way the tracks segue one into another, especially on side one of the LP, as can be heard here with the tracks: Singing Winds - Crying Beasts; Black Magic Woman, and Gypsy Queen.
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This album has it all – from the first track, designed to test the resolution of your system, to tracks that if they don’t get you up out of your listening chair and have you dancing around the room will at least make you tap your foot. If it doesn’t move you, you are either dead or have a lousy audio system!
Santana first promoted their style of Afro-Latin music fused with rock and roll as “Music to make love to” – which says it all really. Enjoy!
Oh – if you’re wondering why the album is called ‘Abraxas’, well it’s taken from a passage in the book: Demian by Herman Hesse:
“We stood before it and began to freeze inside from the exertion.
We questioned the painting, berated it, made love to it, prayed to it:
We called it mother, called it whore and slut, called it our beloved, called it Abraxas…”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraxas_(album)
Spotify: Santana – Singing Winds, Crying Beasts
(https://open.spotify.com/album/1CHUXwuge9A7L2KiA3vnR6/0vBCQeiEKRy6eJmrf5zz4H?)
Grooveshark: http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Abraxas/7888562
April’s Album Club choice comes courtesy of Barry, who due to a ‘no show’ has stepped in at the last minute with Santana’s ‘Abraxas’. Please listen to the album in its entirety before you vote.
Santana – ‘Abraxas’
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61iD1mqjVvL._SY355_.jpg
The version I used is the ‘Vinyl Classics’ re-master: Sony Columbia COL 489543 2 (1998)
This is the second album recorded by Santana in 1970 and was the one, which in the opinion of many propelled Santana to global stardom.
vVpcqvkCDSA
What I like about this album is the combination of Afro-Caribbean music with that of Mexican mariachi and Latin American music. In particular, I love the way the tracks segue one into another, especially on side one of the LP, as can be heard here with the tracks: Singing Winds - Crying Beasts; Black Magic Woman, and Gypsy Queen.
POL7RDoNAFs
This album has it all – from the first track, designed to test the resolution of your system, to tracks that if they don’t get you up out of your listening chair and have you dancing around the room will at least make you tap your foot. If it doesn’t move you, you are either dead or have a lousy audio system!
Santana first promoted their style of Afro-Latin music fused with rock and roll as “Music to make love to” – which says it all really. Enjoy!
Oh – if you’re wondering why the album is called ‘Abraxas’, well it’s taken from a passage in the book: Demian by Herman Hesse:
“We stood before it and began to freeze inside from the exertion.
We questioned the painting, berated it, made love to it, prayed to it:
We called it mother, called it whore and slut, called it our beloved, called it Abraxas…”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraxas_(album)
Spotify: Santana – Singing Winds, Crying Beasts
(https://open.spotify.com/album/1CHUXwuge9A7L2KiA3vnR6/0vBCQeiEKRy6eJmrf5zz4H?)
Grooveshark: http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Abraxas/7888562