Abraxas (Album)

Occupation

  • Drums: Michael Shrieve
  • Percussion, conga, timbales: Jose Chepito Areas
  • Keyboard, Vocals: Gregg Rolie
  • Bass, Guitar: David Brown
  • Percussion, Conga: Mike Carabello
  • Piano: Alberto Gianquinto
  • Bass, Guitar: Rico Reyes
  • Guitar, Vocals: Carlos Santana

Abraxas is the second album by the Latin rock group Santana. Following the publication in September 1970, the album offers a mix of salsa, blues, rock 'n' roll, jazz and other influences, to a classic that defined the early sound was Santana.

Album title and cover

The picture shows a detail from the painting Annunciation by Mati Klarwein from the year 1962. The album title was influenced by Hermann Hesse's novel Demian. On the back cover, therefore, is an English abstract of this work:

"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 "

Achievements

Abraxas is often referred to as Santana's best album. Due to the mixture of influences of Latin and rock ' n ' roll elements such as distorted guitar or organ, the album was well received in the U.S.. It also shows the versatility of Santana, because it also contains soft and slow tracks like Incident at Neshabur and Samba pa ti. It was also number one in the U.S. album charts and stayed 88 weeks in the charts. That same year, the album received a gold record. On November 21, 1986, the album received the fourth -platinum award in the United States.

Reception

2003 the album was certified space 205 on the list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time magazine Rolling Stone. In the same year it was number 85 on the list of greatest albums of all time the TV channel VH1.

The single from the Black Magic Woman, a cover of the English group Fleetwood Mac, 1971 reached # 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the U.S. in January. Santana keyboardist Gregg Rolie singer.

Samba pa ti is one of the songs treated in Nick Hornby book 31 songs.

Versions

1998, Sony released a remastered version, the three previously unreleased live recordings contained: Se a cabo, Toussaint L' ouverture and Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall on 18 April 1970.

Title list

Singles

Song Info

Black Magic Woman is a cover of Fleetwood Mac. The band released the song already in 1968. Santana's version was also complemented by a 1 min 44s long Instrumental by Gábor Szabó named Gypsy Queen. Although it is a cover version of Santana is the best known. The song was a huge success and peaked in the U.S. singles chart top spot # 4

Oye como va is another cover. The song was originally written by Tito Puente. Also, this song was released as a single and peaked in the U.S. charts ranked # 18

Record label Columbia Records Genre Electronic keyboard Singing Bass guitar David Brown (musician) Santana (1969 album) Santana (1971 album) Salsa music Latin American music List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1970 Peter Green (musician)
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