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SANTANA

ABRAXAS

Columbia Records
KC 30130

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Original 1970 album liner notes

 

 

SIDE ONE

 

Singing Winds, Crying Beasts  4:48

-Michael Carabello-

 

Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen  5:17

-Peter Green-Gabor Szabo-

 

Oye Como Va  4:17

-Tito Puente-

 

Incident At Neshabur*  4:58

-Alberto Gianquinto-Carlos Santana-

(Recorded at Pacific Recording, San Mateo)

 

side one arranged by Santana

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SIDE TWO

 

Se a Cabo  2:49

-Chepito Areas-

 

Mother’s Daughter  4:25

-Gregg Rolie-

 

Samba Pa Ti  4:46

-Carlos Santana-

 

Hope You’re Feeling Better  4:10

-Gregg Rolie-

 

El Nicoya  1:29

-Chepito Areas-

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All tunes on side two arranged by Santana except:

Se a Cabo – C. Areas

Samba Pa Ti – C. Santana, G. Rolie

El Nicoya – C. Areas, M. Carabello, Rico Reyes

 

All tunes Petra Music (ASCAP) except:

Black Magic Woman – Murbo Music Publ., Inc. (BMI)

Gypsy Queen – Pab Music Corp. (BMI)

Oye Como Va – Planetary Music Pub. Corp. (ASCAP)

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Thanks to musicians:

Rico Reyes – vocal on Oye Como Va, vocal and percussion on El Nicoya

Alberto Gianquinto – piano on Incident At Neshabur

 

 

PRODUCED BY FRED CATERO & SANTANA

 

Recorded at: Wally Heider Recording Studio, San Francisco

 

Engineering: Dave Brown, John Fiore

 

 

Cover Art: MATI

 

Cover Photograph: Marian Schmidt

 

Inside Photograph: Joan Chase

 

Graphics: Bob Venosa

 

Continuity: Annie Rudder

 

 

Personal Management: Stan (Moon) Marcum

 

 

Special thanks to: Walk don’t – Ron Estrada, Stanback, Herbie and the Outtasites – Bob Ramos and John Villanueva

 

 

“We stood before it and began to freeze inside from the exertion.  We questioned the painting, berated it, made love to it, prayed to it: We called it mother, called it whore and slut, called it our beloved, called it Abraxas…”*

* (Excerpt) from DEMIAN by Herman Hesse (Harper & Row)

 

 

STEREO

 

COLUMBIA (Lp)

 

Manufactured by Columbia Records/ CBS, Inc./ 51 W. 52 Street, New York, N.Y./ ® “Columbia” Marcas Reg. Printed in U.S.A. Columbia stereo records can be played on today’s mono record players with excellent results.  They will last as long as mono records played on the same equipment, yet will reveal full stereo sound when played on stereo record players.

 

 

KC 30130