At the beginning of a new century and the dawn of a new millennium, Carlos Santana is at the pinnacle of a remarkable recording and performing career. Carlos’ music has spanned five decades, outlasted countless musical trends, sold more than fifty million albums, played live to upwards of thirty million fans, and garnered countless awards and honors, including a 1998 induction into the Rock ‘n Roll Hall Of Fame.

For over thirty years, Santana has been tirelessly creating his own unique fusion of passionate, guitar-powered music, creatively blending potent rock ‘n roll with blues-driven elements, sensuous Afro-Cuban rhythms, and infusions of numerous other global music idioms. Long before ‘World Music’ was coined as a phrase, Santana was making it and popularizing it—perhaps even defining it…and ever since Carlos and his band exploded onto the stage with an electrifying performance at the original 1969 Woodstock Festival, the world has indeed been listening.

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Carlos Santana - Shaman
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With the album 'Shaman', Santana continue from the success of the winning formula used on 'Supernatural', with a liberal dose of guest appearances. This in no way overpowers the Santana band's brilliant musicians (I believe their best band yet, and I've been a fan since 1976) or Carlos' inimitable brand of guitar playing that makes the heart soar with delight.

It's great to hear an album with so many feel good tunes and rhythms. 'Adouma', 'Foo Foo' and 'Aye Aye Aye' are classic Santana Band fare with plenty of Afro/South American vibes going on, whilst the guest appearances cover many styles, from Seal's emotive singing to Nickelback front man Chad Kroeger's edgy and rasping rock vocals. All of the artists perform brilliantly in an album that covers a wide range of musical styles from Cuban (Amoré (sexo)) to classic rock anthem (America) to thebluesey feel of 'Sideways'.

Good to see Rob Thomas' songwriting contribution too. All of this is beautifully held together by the Santana Band influence. A welcome emphasis on Carlos' acoustic guitar playing helps to bring things downtempo through some tracks.

Santana - Supernatural - Live (DVD)
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Like the hit album that inspires its name, Supernatural Live brings journeyman guitarist Carlos Santana back into the mainstream by surrounding him with younger superstars eager to bask in his formidable musical presence. Resuscitating stardom through sheer proximity can translate to forced pairings or superfluous music-making, but credit Santana himself with minimising such missteps: a fusion artist before the term was coined, the erstwhile Mexican street musician long ago extended his technical reach and broadened his stylistic palette by hungrily assimilating different styles of music. Accordingly, he shifts gears easily, whether soloing behind Dave Matthews, trading lines with legendary saxophonist Wayne Shorter, or spicing up a hip-hop excursion with Lauryn Hill.

Santana justifiably taps into the late 90s breakout for Latin pop, hardly surprising in light of his early identification with "Latin-rock" via his 1968 recording debut. His early reworking of Tito Puente's classic "Oye Como Va" thus pops up as the set closer, while the concert kicks off with a frenetic, horn-powered "(Da Le) Yaleo", given added spectacle by a swaying corps of female dancers in feathered headgear. Elsewhere, the guitarist hosts a procession of the stars that added their marquee value to the Supernatural album, including Rob Thomas (the massive hit, "Smooth", here performed as a medley with "Dame Tu Amor") and Everlast. But a duet with label colleague Sarah McLachlan on "Angel" yields the concert's only anticlimax--on a ballad built from spare piano and a poignant lyric, Santana's innate taste leaves him little to contribute beyond a delicate tracery of classical guitar.

Production values are excellent, with crisp camera work and sound mixing. A special remote camera, mounted on the neck of Santana's guitar, presents his intricate fretwork in nifty close-ups that are wisely held to just a few songs