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Released
  
October 1977

Moonflower (1977)
  
Inner Secrets (1978)

Release date
  
October 1977

Length
  
86:50

Artist
  
Santana

Label
  
Columbia Records

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Recorded
  
December 1976 (live tracks / Europe) 1977 (studio tracks / San Francisco)

Producer
  
Carlos Santana, Tom Coster

Genres
  
Rock music, Jazz fusion, Latin music

Similar
  
Santana albums, Jazz fusion albums

Santana dawn go within


Moonflower is a studio and live double album by Santana, released in 1977. The recording features both studio and live tracks, which are interspersed with one another throughout the album. It is perhaps the group's most popular live album, because Lotus did not receive a U.S. domestic release until the early 1990s. It displays a mix between the fusion of Latin and blues-rock styles of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the much more experimental and spiritual jazz fusion sound that characterized the band's mid-1970s work. The live material was recorded during the supporting tour for the Festival album, which displayed a similar mix of styles, and many of the album's songs are featured here – namely, the three song medley which opens Festival.

Contents

A cover version of the Zombies' mid-1960s hit song "She's Not There" was released as a single and peaked at #27. The song was the first Santana recording to hit the Top 40 of the Billboard charts since "No One to Depend On" reached #36 in 1972. The album reached #10 on the Billboard charts and was eventually certified platinum, neither of which occurred again until the star-studded Supernatural in 1999.

Side one

  1. "Dawn/Go Within" (Tom Coster, Carlos Santana) – 2:44 (Studio)
  2. "Carnaval" (Coster, Santana) – 2:17 (Live)
  3. "Let the Children Play" (Leon Patillo, Santana) – 2:37 (Live)
  4. "Jugando" (José "Chepito" Areas, Santana) – 2:09 (Live)
  5. "I'll Be Waiting" (Santana) – 5:20 (Studio; also issued on single)
  6. "Zulu" (Coster, Santana) – 3:25 (Studio)

Side two

  1. "Bahia" (Coster, Santana) – 1:37 (Studio)
  2. "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen" (Peter Green, Gábor Szabó) – 6:32 (Live)
  3. "Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana)" (Leon Chancler, Coster, David Rubinson) – 7:45 (Live)
  4. "Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)" (Coster, Santana) – 6:07 (Live)

Side three

  1. "She's Not There" (Rod Argent) – 4:09 (Studio; also issued on single)
  2. "Flor d'Luna (Moonflower)" (Coster) – 5:01 (Studio)
  3. "Soul Sacrifice/Head, Hands & Feet" (Santana, Gregg Rolie, David Brown, Marcus Malone, Graham Lear) – 14:01 (Live)

Side four

  1. "El Morocco" (Coster, Santana) – 5:05 (Studio)
  2. "Transcendance" (Santana) – 5:13 (Studio)
  3. "Savor/Toussaint L'Overture" (Santana, Rolie, Brown, Michael Carabello, Michael Shrieve, Areas) – 12:56 (Live)

Bonus tracks on 2003 reissue

  1. "Black Magic Woman" (Single edit) (Green) – 2:37 (Live)
  2. "I'll Be Waiting" (Single edit) (Santana) – 3:12 (Studio)
  3. "She's Not There" (Single edit) (Argent) – 3:19 (Studio)

Musicians

  • Greg Walker – vocals
  • Carlos Santana – guitar, vocals, percussion
  • Tom Coster – keyboards
  • Pablo Tellez – bass, vocals (live tracks)
  • David Margen – bass (studio tracks)
  • Graham Lear – drums
  • Raul Rekow – percussion
  • José "Chepito" Areas – percussion (live tracks)
  • Pete Escovedo – percussion (studio tracks)

    • Songs

    1Dawn / Go Within2:44
    2Carnaval2:18
    3Let the Children Play2:38

    References

    Moonflower (album) Wikipedia
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