Supernatural - Santana

Supernatural is the 1999 album from the Mexican Latin sensation Carlos Santana. It is said that this album kickstarted his career after a faltering from the guitar supremo in the mid-1990s. It is a magnificent collection of music with Latin and Cuban themes, and incorporates the musical talents of modern genius minds such as Wyclef Jean, Eric Clapton and Eagle-Eye Cherry. Track 5 'Smooth', featuring the vocal talents of Matchbox Twenty lead singer Rob Thomas was a massive interntaional hit. The album itself has gone 15 times platinum, and has won 9 Grammy awards. I really like this album, particularly Everlast's invlovement in track 2, 'Put Your Lights On'. It ...  Read the complete review

**Introduction** For my second review in my music review instalment I have decided to review one of my favourite albums of the 90's. Carlos Santana had been an established artist for over 20 years thanks to his unmistakable guitar playing when Supernatural was released in 1999. Although he had huge success in his earlier career nothing would have prepared him for the response to Supernatural. This album has sold well over 25m copies worldwide and won an astonishing eight Grammy Awards. In this review I hope to give my opinion on why this album was just so successful. **Supernatural** The concept for this album was to feature a range of ...  Read the complete review

Are you wondering why there has been such a long gap from Santana's last big-selling album until the Grammy award winning Supernatural'? Well, me too. As someone old enough to remember the first album successes in the late 1960s based on the groundbreaking Santana' and Abraxas' dear Carlos seemed to lose that spark of originality that made his music so enjoyable. It was Santana who first fused the African rhythms into guitar rock and with a band which was so musically tight and focused they were effortless in their playing. Early album classics Jingo' and Oye Como Va' led an early appreciation in strong pounding rhythmic rock and knocked at the convention that ...  Read the complete review

Now this has to be my all time best album in the world to date and i don't even like rock,i would even argue that this cd is not at all rock but it is great for relaxing to especially when feeling a bit down. 1.Taleo 2.Love of my life 3.Put your lights on 4.Africa Bamba 5.Smooth 6.Do you like the way 7.Maria Maria 8.Migra 9.Corazon 10.Wishing it was 11.El Farol 12.Primavera 13.The calling My most favorite of the lot is 'Put your lights on' i find this a very spiritual song that emphasises how spiritual they are i will nowbore you with the lyrics which i think are great yet simple. Hey ...  Read the complete review

I know it won loads of Grammy awards, and everyone seems to love this album, but I'm afraid I'm not one of them. There's really only a couple of tracks on it that I can stand to listen to for very long. When you first see all the collaborators (Eric Clapton, Eagle Eye Cherry, Lauryn Hill and others) it smacks of someone trying to revive an ailing career. Don't know whether that's true, but it certainly has meant that it's a more varied album that a lot of Santana's earlier ones. At times it reminds me of Sting's music, for some reason. Opening track "(Da le) Yaleo" and "El Farol", a slow number, ...  Read the complete review