Santana - Santana III - SACD

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Santana - Santana III - SACD
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Mobile Fidelity - UDSACD 2158  - SACD Hybrid Stereo  

Numbered Limited  Edition - Hybrid Sacd  Plays on All CD Players 

Half Speed Mastered by Rob LoVerde  from the Original Master Tape at MFSL

Mastered on the Mobile Fidelity GAIN 2™ Mastering Technology for Ultradisc UHR™  SACD

This album has remained a favourite for me and I am very happy to have the Mofi SACD here with me.Mofi have done an excellent job with the SACD master. It sounds beautiful. There is occasional evidence of a little bit of tape wear, but the sound of the album and the musical detail is better than ever. ......now if only Mofi could get their hands on the Lotus masters HRaudio

Last Santana Album Recorded With Famed Woodstock Band With Guitar Virtuoso Neal Schon in Fold, Santana Makes Musical Magic That Truly Spans the Globe years Before “World Music” Became a Genre

Mastered on Mobile Fidelity's World-Renowned Mastering System 

This jLP Breathes With Sumptuous Warmth The final Santana album recorded with the leader’s famed Woodstock lineup, one of the most capable and explosive bands ever assembled, Santana III (commonly referred to as The Third Album) is a beacon of Latin-tinged rock, melodic creativity, and cohesive interplay. The record also marks the debut of young guitar virtuoso Neal Schon, who functions as the ideal foil to Santana, whose playing on this 1971 set rivals that of the finest in his career. If not for arriving after the monumental Abraxas, it is likely Santana III would be mentioned in the same breath as groundbreaking psychedelic classics such as Bitches Brew. It’s that good.

Embracing the concept that all of the members should share their musical ideas, Santana added two crucial components to his band: Schon, discovered at the age of 15 playing in a Palo Alto club, and Thomas “Coke” Escovedo, who during the sessions temporarily replaced ill percussionist Chepito Areas, and whose percussive assistance helped define the album’s feel. With Schon in the fold, Santana strives for the unknown, and yet, manages to stave off the numbing excesses that define much of the period’s output. From the opening “Batuka,” peppered with Schon’s stirring guitar lines, to the sensitive “Everything Is Coming Our Way,” infused with a mesmerizing Hammond organ underpinning that supports Santana’s vocal pathos, the record teams with inventiveness.

Involving albeit accessible concoctions of funk, jazz, rock, blues, and soul run throughout the set. Spanish-styled flavors infuse a majority of the material, ranging from the salsa piano on “Guarjira” to the distinctive “No One to Depend On,” a lively take on the cha-cha-cha. A globe-spanning armada of percussive instruments—timbales, congas, drums, vibes, tambourines, and more—as well as the existence of a three-person percussion team that fits in harmoniously with Santana, Schon, and company makes Santana III a masterful accomplishment in musical chemistry and the exploration of true world craft.

 Santana III breathes with sumptuous warmth and you-are-there realism. The tension of Schon’s guitar lines, the album’s open sound, and extensive use of studio echoes (check the presence of the backward echo on “No One to Depend On”) fill the soundstage, replete with the kind of depth and dynamics one expects from a first-rate audiophile recording.

Mastered and on the famous MoFi Sound Lab state-of-the-art Tim de Paravacini-designed mastering system


Bass – David Brown
Congas, Vocals, Percussion, Tambourine – Michael P. R. Carabello
Drums, Percussion, Vibraphone – Michael Shrieve
Guitar – Neal Schon
Guitar, Vocals – Carlos Santana
Piano, Organ, Vocals – Gregg Rolie
Timbales, Congas, Percussion, Vocals, Drums, Flugelhorn – Jose Chepito Areas*

 

Selections:
1. Batuka
2. No One to Depend On
3. Taboo
4. Toussaint L'Overture
5. Everybody's Everything
6. Guajira
7. Jungle Strut
8. Everything's Coming Our Way
9. Para los Rumberos

Santana - Santana III - SACD

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