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, his smooth delivery of the songs inquisitive verses and bark on the titular chorus giving structure to the albums funkiest jam and Santanas psychedelic explorations. Complex instrumental Incident at Neshabur co-written and played on by Santanas friend Alberto Gianquinto runs the gamut from harsh waves of guitar giddy-up to some of the most delicate moments on the record. Its eclectic path and time changes show that lyrics arent always necessary to tell a story.
Its during Abraxas highlight Samba Pa Ti (trans: Samba for You) that the listener first gets a pause on the album a calm moment of consideration between the two storms that are Mothers Daughter and Hope Youre Feeling Better. Santana got the idea for the song from listening to a street performer play jazz saxophone outside his apartment on a Sunday afternoon in New York. Truer to the point, the man was drunk and, as the guitarist explains, couldnt decide whether to put the bottle or his saxophone to his mouth first. Santana claims he wrote Samba Pa Ti on the spot and has said that it was the first song he felt really belonged to him. In that light, Abraxas feels like those tensions whether bottle or saxophone, Latin music or rock and roll, or Mexican culture or American playing out in wild, weird, and wonderful ways. It sounds like Carlos Santana and band searching for and finding something to truly call their own.
Essential Tracks: Samba Pa Ti, Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen, and Mothers Daughter
(via Consequences of Sound)
Label: Columbia, Legacy
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 180 Gram, Gatefold
Reissued: 2016 / Original: 1970
Genre: Rock, Jazz, Latin, Funk / Soul
Style: Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Fusion, Jazz-Funk
File under: TAV Essential Listening
File under: School of Rock
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