Released October 1974 Borboletta
(1974) Amigos
(1976) Release date October 1974 Genres Jazz fusion, Funk | Length 49:52 Artist Santana Label Columbia Records | |
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Producers Carlos Santana, Michael Shrieve, Tom Coster Similar Santana albums, Jazz fusion albums | ||
Borboletta is the sixth studio album by Santana. It is one of his jazz-funk-fusion oriented albums, along with Caravanserai (1972), Welcome (1973), Love Devotion Surrender (1973) with John McLaughlin and Illuminations (1974) with Alice Coltrane, Jack DeJohnette and Jules Broussard. The guitarist leaves a lot of room to percussion, saxophone and keyboards to set moods ("Spring Manifestations"), as well as lengthy solos by himself ("Promise of a Fisherman") and vocals ("Give and Take", a funky guitar-led song). The record was released in a shiny blue sleeve displaying a butterfly, an allusion to the album Butterfly Dreams (1973) by Brazilian musician Flora Purim and her husband Airto Moreira, whose contributions deeply influenced the sound of Borboletta. In Portuguese, borboleta means "butterfly".
Contents
Original bassist David Brown returned to replace Doug Rauch and vocalist/keyboardist Leon Patillo joined. After the album's completion, drummer Michael Shrieve left, to be replaced by Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, who had guested on parts of the album.
Santana canto de los flores
Personnel
Airto Moreira and Flora Purim appear courtesy of CTI Records
Songs
1Spring Manifestations1:05
2Canto de Los Flores3:39
3Life Is Anew4:23