Santana - Abraxas

About Abraxas by Santana Album

Abraxas is the second album by Santana, the Latin rock n' roll group led by guitarist Carlos Santana. Consolidating their live success at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, and the interest generated by their first album the band took some time to issue a follow-up. Released in September 1970, the album's mix of rock, blues, jazz, salsa and other influences made it a classic that defined Santana's early sound, and showed a musical maturation from their first album. Often considered Santana's greatest album, it drew widespread acclaim for its mixture of Latin influences with familiar rock themes such as overdriven electric guitar, organ and heavy drums. The album also demonstrates Santana's stylistic versatility, including tracks such as "Samba pa Ti" (a classic slow-burning, seductive piece) and "Incident at Neshabur", both being instrumentals. The latter has several rhythm and time signature changes consistent with its jazz feel. Latin percussion — congas, bongos and timbales, as well as a conventional rock drum setup, make this Santana's first foray into true Latin rhythm. In 2003, the album was ranked number 205 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album achieved number 7 in the UK album charts The title of the album comes from a line from Herman Hesse's book Demian: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... The album's cover features the 1961 painting Annunciation, by Mati Klarwein.

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Abraxas (Santana) Album Songs

NoSong TitleTime
1.Singing Winds, Crying Beasts 4:51
2.Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen 5:20
3.Oye Como Va 4:20
4.Incident At Neshabur 5:02
5.Se A Cabo 2:54
6.Mother's Daughter 4:30
7.Samba Pa Ti 4:49
8.Hope You're Feeling Better 4:09
9.El Nicoya 1:29

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I rode my bike to this music in the early 7 "70s. It still puts me "in the zone" when I hear the music

- A classic album

This is an amazing album. It was the soundtrack to my adolescence.

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- Amazing

Still sounds so fresh to this day. Great music and classic Santana. Deserves to be heard in High-resolution (24-bit/96kHz) though. Come on Apple!

- Masterpiece

An absolute classic album that should be in everyone’s collection. Some of the coolest and classiest rock music ever produced.

- just buy it and play loud

a real classic rock album. timeless.

- Santana abraxas

One of the best albums ever I grew up in the seventies I used to listen to it with my parents an absolute masterpiece a timeless classic Carlos is a legend 😊😊😊😊😊😊

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Abraxas Wiki

Abraxas (Biblical Greek: ἀβραξάς, romanized: abraxas, variant form ἀβράναξ romanized: abranax) is a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the "Great Archon" (megas archōn), the princeps of the 365 spheres (ouranoi). The word is found in Gnostic texts such as the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, and also appears in the Greek Magical Papyri. It was engraved on certain antique gemstones, called on that account Abraxas stones, which were used as amulets or charms. As the initial spelling on stones was Abrasax (Αβρασαξ), the spelling of Abraxas seen today probably originates in the confusion made between the Greek letters sigma (Σ) and xi (Ξ) in the Latin transliteration. The seven letters spelling its name may represent each of the seven classic planets. The word may be related to Abracadabra, although other explanations exist. There are similarities and differences between such figures in reports about Basilides's teaching, ancient Gnostic texts, the larger Greco-Roman magical traditions, and modern magical and esoteric writings. Speculations have proliferated on Abraxas in recent centuries, which has been claimed to be both an Egyptian god and a demon.

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