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      Abraxas is the second studio album by American Latin rock band Santana. It was released on September 23, 1970, by Columbia Records and became the band's first album to top the Billboard 200 in the United States. In 2020, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album number 334 in its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".


      Title


      The title of the album originates from a line in Hermann Hesse's 1919 book Demian, quoted on the album's back cover: "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..."


      Songs


      Carlos Santana had been interested in Fleetwood Mac's leader and songwriter Peter Green, having seen him perform at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, and decided to cover the band's song "Black Magic Woman". (Both had also been influenced as guitarists by B.B. King.) The band added a cover of Gábor Szabó's instrumental "Gypsy Queen" to the end.: 34–35  "Oye Como Va" was a hit by Tito Puente in the early 1960s and the group played it live regularly, as they realized it was good for audiences to dance to.: 35 
      "Incident at Neshabur" was co-written by Santana and his friend Alberto Gianquinto, who played piano on the track. Gregg Rolie played the other keyboards, contrasting with Gianquinto's jazz-influenced style. It ran through various time and key signatures.: 36 
      The instrumental, "Samba Pa Ti" ("Samba for You"), was written by Santana when he saw a jazz saxophonist performing in the street outside his apartment.: par. 5 : 36 
      It was later covered by José Feliciano, who added lyrics, and also by Angélique Kidjo, who put lyrics in Yoruba, on her album Oyo. It is also one of the tracks featured in Nick Hornby's book 31 Songs.
      The first three songs on side one segue into each other, creating a 14-minute, 28-second mini-suite.


      Cover art


      The album cover features the 1961 painting Annunciation by German-French painter Mati Klarwein. According to the artist, it was one of the first paintings he did after relocating to New York City. Carlos Santana reportedly noticed it in a magazine and asked that it be on the cover of the band's upcoming album. On the back of the record sleeve the cover art is just credited to 'MATI'. It is now considered a classic of rock album covers. Klarwein went on to design album artwork for many notable artists, including Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Gregg Allman.


      Critical reception



      In 2003, the album was ranked No. 205 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, at No. 207 on the 2012 revision of the list, and then again at No. 334 in its 2020 release. In 2000, it appeared at No. 202 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2015, the album was listed among Billboard's 50 Essential Latin Albums of the 50 Past Years.
      Rock critic Robert Christgau, in one of his capsule reviews in The Village Voice, at the time of the album's release, gave it a rating of only C+, which denotes "a not disreputable performance, most likely a failed experiment or a pleasant piece of hackwork".


      Legacy


      Abraxas was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in their National Recording Registry in 2015.


      Track listing




      = Original release

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      = 1998 bonus tracks

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      Personnel




      = Santana

      =
      Carlos Santana – lead guitar, backing vocals, producer
      Gregg Rolie – keyboards, lead vocals
      David Brown – bass
      Michael Shrieve – drums
      José "Chepito" Areas – percussion, conga, timbales
      Michael Carabello – percussion, conga, possibly keyboards on "Singing Winds, Crying Beasts" (the latter disputed by Santana)


      = Additional personnel

      =
      Rico Reyes – backing vocal on "Oye Como Va", backing vocal and percussion on "El Nicoya"
      Alberto Gianquinto – piano on "Incident at Neshabur"
      Fred Catero – producer
      John Fiore, David Brown – engineer
      Bob Venosa – graphics
      MATI – illustrations
      Marian Schmidt, Joan Chase – photography


      Release history


      In 1990, CBS/Sony published a remastered edition on Audio CD (UPC: 7464301302).
      In 1991, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab released a remastered version on their Ultradisc (24K) Gold CD (UDCD 552).
      In 1997, ARS (Audiophile record service Joerg Kessler) of Germany, released a 180 gram 100% virgin vinyl pressing mastered from the original analog tape. It is (Pallas) Germany pressed. Catalog # Ars 32032.
      In 1998, Sony published a remastered version, which included three previously unreleased live tracks: "Se a Cabó", "Toussaint L'Overture" and "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen", recorded at the Royal Albert Hall on April 18, 1970.
      In 1998, SME records in Japan, part of Sony Music, also released the remastered version as an SACD. This disc is stereo only, and furthermore, it is a single layer SACD, which means that ordinary CD players will not play it. This disc contains the same bonus tracks as the ordinary 1998 remastered CD.
      In 2008, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab released a remastered version on their Ultradisc II (24K) Gold CD (UDCD 775) & GAIN 2 Ultra Analog LP 180g Series (MFSL305).
      In 2016 Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab released a new, limited edition, 45 rpm 2-LP box set of Abraxas called the 1 step (UD1S). The set was limited to 2500 copies worldwide and involved a process where several of the traditional steps in making a vinyl record were bypassed in order to get a more original sound. It is mastered using a 1/4" / 15 IPS analog master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe.


      Charts




      Certifications




      See also


      1970s in Latin music
      List of best-selling Latin albums


      References




      Further reading


      Draper, Jason (2008). A Brief History of Album Covers. London: Flame Tree Publishing. pp. 92–93. ISBN 9781847862112. OCLC 227198538.

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