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released on 9/7/2021
NEW YEAR’S EVE 1976
by SANTANA
Compact Disc
ICON083
Label: ICONOGRAPHY
SUPERB SANTANS N.Y.E. BROADCAST FROM 1976
Recorded on New Year's Eve, 1976, and playing in support to Grateful Dead at the annual Dead Hogmanay, this blistering Santana concert was performed when Carlos and the band were going through numerous changes. • When lead vocalist and keyboardist Greg Rolie departed in 1974 to form Journey, Carlos Santana immersed himself in the spiritual teachings of Sri Chinmoy, a guru who gained recognition when his teachings were adopted by John McLaughlin. Carlos was eager to experience and create new styles of music: avant garde jazz (he cut an album with Alice Coltrane, wife of the jazz saxophonist, John Coltrane) and fusion (he recorded an LP with McLaughlin). During this period, he was releasing Santana albums as well, but the glut of so many diverse products in such a short period of time, caused confusion in the marketplace, and the sales of all his records began to slide. • For this tour, Santana was promoting Amigos, a record that brought him back to commercial solvency with the hit single, ‘Dance Sister Dance.’ The group had hired long time San Francisco studio whiz David Rubinson to produce them and help them streamline their focus. Rubinson took the band back to their roots with a distinctly Latin-flavoured record of strong pop material. • This show features a wide spectrum of all the music the Santana band had made up to this point. Newer selections from Amigos are placed around a handful of Santana classics, and although the band remains focused on their musicality, they make sure there is a healthy heap of hits. They are, after all, playing to their hometown crowd on New Year's Eve. Highlights include ‘Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen’, ‘Oye Como Va’ and a 15-minute version of ‘Soul Sacrifice’, which brought the house down at Woodstock seven years earlier
1. Carnaval/Let The Children Play/Jugando 7:41
2. Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen 6:09
3. Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana) 7:32
4. Revelations 5:34
5. Maria Caracóles 4:21
6. Savor/Toussaint L'Overture 13:06
7. Let Me 4:39
8. Europa 6:23
9. Band Introduction/Soul Sacrifice 14:36
10. Let The Music Set You Free 4:11
