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  • Audio CD (6 April 1998)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Columbia
  • ASIN: B000024COQ
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 10,428 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Before the arrival of Carlos Santana's eponymous band, the San Francisco rock scene drew the inspiration for its jam-oriented music mainly from blues, rock, and Eastern modalities. Santana added Latin music to the mix, forever changing thecourse of rock & roll history. On Santana's groundbreaking debut album, the group mixes Latin percussion with driving rock grooves. Santana's unique guitar style, alternately biting and liquid, vies with the multiple percussionists for thesonic focus.
Unlike later efforts, Santana's first albumfeatures an abundance of loose collective compositions based on a couple of simple riffs ("Jingo", "Soul Sacrifice"). This approach allows for Santana and his bandmates to flex their improvisational muscles to fine effect. The high energy level on SANTANA is infectious--the laid-back feel of other '60s S.F. groups was clearly not for Carlos and company.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars More interest please..., 8 Jan 2004
By nicjaytee (London) - See all my reviews
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So, here we are faced with Santana's first, quite brilliant album which is (as I write) ranked number 26,686 in Amazon.co.uk’s sales chart. That is, for comparison, some 22,000 places behind Ken Dodd’s Greatest Hits... why ?...

With tracks from Santana's recent "Supernatural" album having received blanket international radio coverage, this record - which provides the template for "Smooth" and virtually all other "latin rock" dance music over the past 30 years - is clearly in desperate need of some more serious interest. Okay, it's less sophisticated but it's infused throughout with excellent songs and highly enthusiastic playing, and... it contains two of the most infectious dance tracks ever made: I defy anyone to put "Jin-go-la-ba" or "Soul Sacrifice" on their CD player and not get an immediate, positive reaction regardless of age or musical preference.

Good enough credentials on their own to justify its inclusion on any list of essential 60's albums. But there's more... because this is also an important record! Not only did it catapult one of the world's most distinctive guitarists onto the international stage but it re-asserted the value of "good-time" dance music - the essence of rock & roll - at a time when folk based introspection and heavy rock bombast were threatening to take over. Playing tracks from this album, Santana's massive success at Woodstock proved that generating simple "let your hair down" enjoyment was still an essential ingredient in "progressive" rock.

As such, it fully justifies "classic" status and vastly much more recognition – best of all, it will, unlike our Ken’s little offering, give you many hours/years of enjoyment while seriously impressing your friends!

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great stuff, 24 Jun 2005
By Dr. Pekka M. A. Pitkanen "pmapitkanen" (Cheltenham, UK) - See all my reviews
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Great stuff. While I was not yet old enough at the time the album was produced (I heard the album first in the late 70's), the feel is late 60's and yet completely timeless at the same time. I think the voice of Gregg Rolie is just fantastic on a couple of the tracks, and the whole band is simply outstanding. There is a fair bit of bonus on the legacy version of the album. Abraxas and the third album are more polished, but perhaps the slight rawness of this first album is part of the attraction.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Oh wow, real rock music!, 3 Dec 2002
This is is how music should be... powerful rhythms, great keyboard work and the sense of music being played instead of some synthetic production being created by studio engineers. This is dance music from a lost era when bands set out to make you dance, and this album certainly can do that. Carlos Santana himself takes a back seat through most of the tracks, often giving the musical lead to Greg Rolie on the keyboard. The keyboard work will please you so much I don't think you'd complain at the maestro's absence.

Santana's first album and of a style they never revisited in the studio but which introduced so many of the favourite tracks from their concert appearances over the next 30 years.

Simply brilliant stuff.

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5.0 out of 5 stars change your evil ways
I first bought the vinyl in the 70's and used to bug out looking for the faces in the lions head while chilling to the tracks. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Harry Nicholas

5.0 out of 5 stars freshly evergreen release
still so incredibly updated, just buy it with the live bonus tracks recorded at Woodstock Festival Aug 16th 1969...

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Published 3 months ago by Santi

4.0 out of 5 stars 5 minus Hammond organ
In my experience few things divide people - as far as music is concerned - than the Hammond organ. Its sound is something people either love or loathe. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Nugent_Dirt

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