Santana - Spiritual Continuum, San Francisco, December 31 1975 (CD) PRE-ORDER For Sale

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Santana - Spiritual Continuum, San Francisco, December 31 1975 KSAN
Santana live at the Cow Palace, San Francisco on New Year's Eve 1975 broadcast by KSAN-FM. Explosive performance with a rejuvenated Carlos giving the material from the early albums new focus and energy. Newly restored and remastered from newly surfaced broadcast audio. Limited edition digi-pak.
You can spot his guitar playing within seconds – the warm, quasi-horn tones of saturated overdrive, the conversational phrasing and instinctive modulation between major and minor. African rhythms, Spanish guitar, Miles Davis and John McLaughlin, Hendrix and Beethoven – for Carlos, it is all one continuum. A true artist, he says, takes inspiration from it all. “As a musician, you have the nutrients and ingredients of many things in one note. In one note, you hear infinity’s breath. When I was in the studio, in 1972, with John McLaughlin doing Love Devotion Surrender, it dawned on me that he trusted me, and he saw something in me that I was trying to see in myself. He saw something in me that Miles Davis saw in him. So there is a spirit in you that can complement anything that gets in front of you. It seems that the intangible becomes the tangible around me.Whether it is Beethoven or whether it is Jimi Hendrix or John Coltrane, time and gravity disappear when you hear that frequency, sound and vibration from those musicians. And you can’t practise that. You can only get out of the way and let the spirit take over your fingers and your mind, and articulate a language of light. I grew up in San Francisco around ground zero for consciousness revolution! Which was Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and a lot of bands like that. Me being a teenager growing up in San Francisco, I also discovered Mongo Santamarìa, Miles Davis, Bola Sete. The way that Michael Bloomfield and Jerry Garcia articulated, East-West by Paul Butterfield, this was like hippie music, like The Doors. It was like discovering Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, and blending it with John Lee Hooker. And so I thought, this is fascinating! This is like alchemy – combining John Lee Hooker with John Coltrane? What a concept! Discovering Spanish music, or discovering Segovia, Paco de Lucìa, and many more of course, there is something very masculine about Spanish music. It is very masculine! Which, for me, is a perfect blend because I grew up listening to Aretha and Dionne Warwick, and so the perfect blend of feminine and masculine ”
TracklistIncident At NeshaburBlack Magic Woman/Gypsy QueenOye Como VaTell Me You Are TiredTime Waits For No OneSamba Pa TiGive And TakeSavorToussaint L’OvertureLet MeSoul SacrificeBandCarlos Santana (Guitar)Tom Coster (Keyboards)David Brown (Bass)Leon "Ndugu" Chancler (Drums)Armando Peraza (Percussion)Greg Walker (Vocals)