santana / albums

8,113,043 plays
2,016 SHARES
9,058 FAVS
326 fans

- Abraxas
- - 110,691 plays
  - 48 favs
  - 9 shares
Santana
Released 1970

Hope You're Feeling Better
04:17
9,304 plays

Se a Cabo
02:52
9,127 plays

Singing Winds, Crying Beasts
04:52
8,274 plays

- Add to cart
- buy
- share

songs

- 1
- Singing Winds, Crying Beasts
- 04:52
- 8,274 plays

- 2
- Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen
- 05:19
- 36,196 plays

- 3
- Oye Como Va
- 04:19
- 14,739 plays

- 4
- Incident at Neshabur
- 05:02
- 8,242 plays

- 5
- Se a Cabo
- 02:52
- 9,127 plays

- 6
- Mother's Daughter
- 04:28
- 7,568 plays

- 7
- Samba Pa Ti
- 04:48
- 11,232 plays

- 8
- Hope You're Feeling Better
- 04:17
- 9,304 plays

- 9
- El Nicoya
- 01:30
- 6,009 plays

album review

The San Francisco Bay Area rock scene of the late '60s was one that encouraged radical experimentation and discouraged the type of mindless conformity that's often plagued corporate rock. When one considers just how different Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, and the Grateful Dead sounded, it becomes obvious just how much it was encouraged. In the mid-'90s, an album as eclectic as Abraxas would be considered a marketing exec's worst nightmare. But at the dawn of the 1970s, this unorthodox mix of rock, jazz, salsa, and blues proved quite successful. Whether adding rock elements to salsa king Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va," embracing instrumental jazz-rock on "Incident at Neshabur" and "Samba Pa Ti," or tackling moody blues-rock on Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman," the band keeps things unpredictable yet cohesive. Many of the Santana albums that came out in the '70s are worth acquiring, but for novices, Abraxas is an excellent place to start. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide