Santana - Amigos (1976) LP - €20,00

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Amigos is the seventh studio album by Santana released in 1976. 

It generated a minor U.S. hit single in “Let It Shine” and was the band’s first album to hit the top ten on the Billboard charts since Caravanserai in 1972 (it ultimately reached gold record status). 

In Europe, the song “Europa” was released as a single and became a top ten hit in several countries.

Amigos is the first Santana album that doesn’t attempt to break new ground. 

The several styles Carlos Santana has delved into over the past decade have been consolidated into a varied, multidimensional album. 

The early days of happy Latin rhythms, congas and catchy vocal hooks and choruses are represented not only by the not-quite-hidden picture of the band’s first album on the cover, but also by the very first strains of “Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana),” which opens the album. 

If you’re more taken by the harder, brasher rock of Abraxas and Santana, “Take Me with You” and “Let Me” will suit you better. And the dreamlike, moody intensity of Caravanserai is evoked by “Europa (Earth’s Cry Heaven’s Smile).”

Throughout, Carlos Santana’s guitar wizardry remains as impressive as ever. He constantly darts in, out and through the dense rhythm section, displaying a mastery of lean rock, hot jazz and an occasional dash of quiet beauty. 

Most guitarists are hard pressed to come up with a single style; Carlos Santana has at least three of which he is master.

New vocalist Greg Walker joined the group. It would be the last Santana album to include original bassist David Brown.

By the release of Amigos, the Santana band’s seventh album, only Carlos Santana and David Brown remained from the band that conquered Woodstock, and only Carlos had been in the band continuously since. 

Meanwhile, the group had made some effort to arrest its commercial slide, hiring an outside producer, David Rubinson, and taking a tighter, more up-tempo, and more vocal approach to its music. 

The overt jazz influences were replaced by strains of R&B/funk and Mexican folk music. The result was an album more dynamic than any since Santana III in 1971. 

“Let It Shine” (number 77), an R&B-tinged tune, became the group’s first chart single in four years, and the album returned Santana to Top Ten status.

Side A

A1.  Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana) - 8:15

A2.  Take Me with You (instrumental) - 5:27

A3.  Let Me - 4:51

Side B

B1.  Gitano - 6:13

B2.  Tell Me Are You Tired - 5:42

B3.  Europa (Earth’s Cry Heaven’s Smile) (instrumental) - 5:06

B4.  Let It Shine - 5:43

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Wally Heider Studios
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – CBS Inc.
• Copyright © – CBS Inc.
• Printed By – Shorewood Packaging
• Published By – Light Music 
• Published By – Polo Grounds Music 
• Lacquer Cut At – CBS, Haarlem
• Pressed By – CBS, Haarlem

Credits

• Backing Vocals – Armando Peraza, Devadip Carlos Santana, Ivory Stone, Julia Tillman Waters, Ndugu Leon Chancler, Maxine Willard Waters, Tom Coster
• Bass – David Brown
• Co-producer – Devadip Carlos Santana, Ndugu Leon Chancler, Tom Coster
• Congas, Bongos – Armando Peraza
• Design [Album], Artwork – Tadanori Yokoo
• Drums, Timbales, Rototoms [Remo], Percussion, Congas – Ndugu Leon Chancler
• Engineer – David Rubinson, Fred Catero
• Engineer [Assistant] – Susie Foot
• Guitar, Percussion, Congas, Performer [Jurro] – Devadip Carlos Santana
• Lead Vocals – Greg Walker
• Management – Bill Graham 
• Mastered By – George Horn, Phil Brown
• Piano, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Electric Organ [Hammond], Synthesizer [Moog, Arp Pro-soloist, Arp Odyssey, Arp String Ensemble], Clavinet [Hohner D6] – Tom Coster
• Producer – David Rubinson & Friends, Inc.

Recorded at Wally Heider Recording Studios, San Francisco.
All selections published by Light Music-BMI except "Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana)" published by Light Music-Polo Grounds Music-BMI.

Notes

Release:  1976

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Latin Rock

Label:  CBS Records

Catalog#  86005

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover:  Goed (VG) Gatefold

Prijs: €20,00