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                          Santana - Welcome
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Artist...............: Santana
Album................: Welcome
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 1973
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy   (Secure mode) & PLEXTOR PX-760A
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.1.4 20070213
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 62 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: ID3 v1.0, ID3 v2.3VorbisComment
Information..........: 

Ripped by............: Millennium2000 on 22-4-2007
Posted by............: Millennium2000 on 20-5-2007
News Server..........: news-europe.giganews.com
News Group(s)........: alt.binaries.sounds.lossless

Included.............: NFO, MD5, M3U, LOG, PAR v2, CUE
Covers...............: Front Back CD 

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                       Tracklisting
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   1. (00:04:12) - (62,27%) Santana - Going Home
   2. (00:03:38) - (62,08%) Santana - Love, Devotion & Surrender
   3. (00:03:11) - (63,19%) Santana - Samba De Sausalito
   4. (00:05:52) - (66,00%) Santana - When I Look Into Your Eyes
   5. (00:05:45) - (62,74%) Santana - Yours Is The Light
   6. (00:05:55) - (59,88%) Santana - Mother Africa
   7. (00:03:52) - (59,41%) Santana - Light Of Life
   8. (00:11:32) - (64,82%) Santana - Flame - Sky
   9. (00:06:29) - (60,37%) Santana - Welcome

Playing Time.........: 00:50:28
Total Size...........: 319,07 MB

NFO generated on.....: 20-5-2007 15:46:13


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Santana's jazziest, exquisite, breathtakingly beautiful, June 27, 2002 
By  David C. Heires (New York, NY USA)

After his first venture into jazz, the jazz/rock masterpiece Caravanserai, 
Carlos Santana recorded four albums also with jazzy textures, but less 
panache than Caravanserai. Instead, they have a lighter feel, with elements 
of spirituality in varying degrees. This reflects Carlos' having come under the 
influence of spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy, as well as his subsequent 
associations with John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, with whom 
he recorded one of these albums, and Alice Coltrane (another of the albums 
was recorded with her). The four recordings have various musical elements 
(including gospel), but jazz, including the music of Alice's recently deceased 
husband John, was at each of their cores. Welcome is the second of the 
four, recorded shortly after Carlos took the spiritual name "Devadip." It is 
also the jazziest, the most free-flowing and modern-sounding, the lightest 
and airiest (but not lacking in intensity), the strongest musically, and the 
best. Welcome is amazing, one of the most wonderful things you'll ever hear 
from Carlos Santana, or anyone.
I feel Carlos Santana may be the finest guitarist of the century, maybe of all 
time. He usually has a large supporting cast, but he still has a very 
prominent, if not a dominant, role in almost all of his albums. Welcome is the 
exception. Instead of being marked by Carlos' guitar solos, this album 
features virtuoso performances by a wide array of musicians and singers. 
Also, in addition to the Coltranes and Herbie Mann, six different members of 
the Santana Band were involved in the authorship of the songs. Welcome is a 
tour de force, not just of Carlos, but all.

The opener, "Going Home," is based on an Alice Coltrane recording, but 
instead of strings employs glowing organ, combining with the pretty guitar 
and percussion for a majestic, dreamy introduction. The next track, "Love, 
Devotion & Surrender" (actually, also the title of the album recorded with 
McLaughlin), features Wendy Haas and Leon Thomas on vocals along with 
Carlos. Leon also does it up on "When I Look Into Your Eyes," which 
concludes with a moog synthesizer, and "Light of Life." But the best of the 
limited singing is the lovely, ethereal vocals of Flora Purim on the very 
pleasant bossa nova "Yours Is the Light."

What is remarkable is that every single track--literally--is a gem. Certainly this 
is helped by having peerless Santana percussionists Armando Peraza, 
Chepito Areas, and Michael Shrieve all on one album. Their showcase is 
"Mother Africa," which also features great saxophone work by Jules 
Broussard. But the most outstanding feature of Welcome may be the 
keyboard interplay of Tom Coster and Richard Kermode on so many songs, 
including the salsa "Samba de Sausalito," the album's catchiest number. Still, 
all of the instrumentation is beautiful and gives the songs exquisite textures. 
There are chimes, marimba, flute synthesizers, some smooth (not overdone) 
strings, all those pleasant sounds that make you feel good. The extended 
tune is "Flame-Sky," also excellent, and in which Carlos' guitar takes its turn in 
the spotlight along with that of John McLaughlin, who makes an appearance. 
The closer is the title cut, written, fittingly, by John Coltrane, and also 
gorgeous.

I cannot say enough good things about the sparklingly superb music on this 
album. Thus, I have nothing more to say. 

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