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Shangó (1982)

Where the lyrics of Shangó take you, and where it was really made.

Gregg Rolie returned to Santana's lineup for this album, working as both musician and producer.

Key places

Recorded at The Automatt (1982)

Recording site The Automatt — The album was recorded at The Automatt in San Francisco. The point marks the studio's listed location. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Mixed at Bayshore Studios (1982)

Recording site Bayshore (Coconut Grove) — Most of the album was mixed at Bayshore Studios in Coconut Grove, Florida. Only track A2 was mixed at The Automatt. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Shangó: 13th studio album by Santana
• Released in August 1982
• Manufactured by CBS/Sony Inc. in Tokyo, Japan
• Eleven tracks; the longest is 'Nueva York' at 4:59 and the shortest is 'Shangó' at 1:44
• Side one: The Nile, Hold On, Night Hunting Time, Nowhere to Run, Nueva York
• Side two: Oxun (Oshūn), Body Surfing, What Does It Take (To Win Your Love), Let Me Inside, Warrior, Shangó
• Reached No. 22 on the Billboard 200

Background

• Gregg Rolie returned to Santana's lineup as musician and producer
• Alex Ligertwood sings and plays rhythm guitar
• Carlos Santana plays guitar, sings, and produces
• Richard Baker plays keyboards; David Margen plays bass; Graham Lear plays drums
• Armando Peraza, Raul Rekow and Orestes Vilató play percussion and sing
• Most songs come from outside writers: Ian Thomas, Paul Brady, Russ Ballard, Johnny Bristol, Vernon Bullock and Harvey Fuqua

Recording

• Recorded at The Automatt, San Francisco
• Mixed at Bayshore Studios, Coconut Grove, Florida
• 'Hold On' (track A2) was mixed at The Automatt
• Producers: Carlos Santana, Gregg Rolie, Bill Szymczyk and John Ryan (Szymczyk and Ryan also arranged)
• Engineers: Jim Gaines and Will Herold; second mixing engineer Ben King; assistant engineer Maureen Droney
• Mastering by Ted Jensen

Cover

• Art direction and design by Richard Stutting
• Photography by Guido Harari
• Yarn painting by Cristobal Gonzáles

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Formed in San Francisco, California, in 1966 by Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana.
• Named the Santana Blues Band at a January 1967 Fillmore audition; shortened to Santana by the end of 1967.
• Signed with Columbia Records in late 1968.
• The "classic" line-up stabilised in May 1969: Carlos Santana, Gregg Rolie, Michael Carabello, David Brown, Michael Shrieve and Jose "Chepito" Areas.

Members

• Carlos Santana is the only consistent member across the band's history.
• Classic line-up: Santana, Gregg Rolie (organ, lead vocals), Michael Carabello and Jose "Chepito" Areas (percussion), Michael Shrieve (drums), David Brown (bass).
• Brown died in 2000; Areas was not invited to the 2014 reunion.
• Classic line-up members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

Career

• Breakthrough at the 1969 Woodstock Festival; the debut album Santana peaked at No. 4 on the US Billboard 200.
• Abraxas (1970) and Santana III (1971) both reached No. 1 on the US Billboard 200.
• Early 1970s experiments with jazz fusion on Caravanserai (1972), Welcome (1973) and Borboletta (1974).
• Amigos (1976) returned the band to commercial success; Moonflower (1977) was its most successful album since Santana III.
• Commercial decline in the 1980s, followed by a seven-year recording hiatus.
• Supernatural (1999) won eight Grammy Awards and sold an estimated 30 million copies worldwide.
• Santana IV (2016) reunited the classic line-up, the first recording together in 45 years.
• Estimated 100 million records sold worldwide.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

Records

• Billboard 200: peaked at No. 22
• 'Hold On' (written by Ian Thomas): Hot 100 No. 15, Billboard Top Tracks No. 17
• 'Nowhere to Run' (written by Russ Ballard): Hot 100 No. 66, Mainstream Rock No. 13
• A third single reached No. 34 on the Mainstream Rock chart
• 'Hold On' was the album's highest-charting single on the Hot 100
• Two singles from the album charted on the Mainstream Rock chart
• The album's chart entries are reported in the source as US Billboard figures only
• Gregg Rolie's return to the band was a notable lineup change for this album
• The album was released in August 1982 by CBS

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• 'Hold On' reached No. 15 on the Hot 100 and No. 17 on Billboard's Top Tracks chart
• 'Nowhere to Run' peaked at No. 66 on the Hot 100 and No. 13 on the Mainstream Rock chart
• Gregg Rolie returned to Santana as a musician and producer for this album
• The album closes with 'Shangó', the shortest track at 1:44
• The album was recorded at The Automatt in San Francisco and mixed at Bayshore Studios in Coconut Grove, Florida
• Only track A2, 'Hold On', was mixed at The Automatt rather than at Bayshore

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

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