Santana – Caravanserai (1972/2022) [Japan] MCH SACD ISO

Santana – Caravanserai (1972/2022) [Japan]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 / 4.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 51:25 minutes | Full Scans included | 3,81 GB
Genre: Fusion, Psychedelic Rock | Publisher (label): Sony Records Int’l – SICP-10142

Santana’s “Caravanserai” becomes available as SA-CD Multi Hybrid edition for the first time in the world. Japanese original release.

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Santana – Santana III (1971) [Japan 2021] MCH SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Santana – Santana III (1971) [Japan 2021]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 & DST64 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 41:22 minutes | Scans included | 2,87 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 41:16 m | Scans included | 1,17 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | 41:16 m | Scans included | 1,01 GB
Features Stereo and Quadrophonic Surround Sound | Sony Japan # SICJ 10138

“Santana (III)” is Santana’s third studio album and was released in September 1971. It is often referred to simply as “III” or as “Man with An Outstretched Hand”. The third and last album by the same members who played at Woodstock, it has been considered by many to be the band’s peak, musically. The album was the last Santana album to reach #1 on the charts until Supernatural in 1999. This original Japanese release becomes available as SA-CD Multi Hybrid edition for the first time in the world. The SACD layer uses a DSD master converted from the original “Quadraphonic (4ch)” master. The CD layer uses 2ch mix master from SACD (latest remastering). Features a 7-inch mini LP cover artwork.

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The Isley Brothers & Santana – Power Of Peace (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

The Isley Brothers & Santana – Power Of Peace (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:07 minutes | 816 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Led by the legendary Ronald Isley on lead vocals and the album’s main producer/arranger Carlos Santana on lead guitar, rhythm guitar, percussion and background vocals, Power of Peace covers songs first made familiar by the Chambers Brothers (“Are You Ready”, “Love, Peace, Happiness”), Swamp Dogg (“Total Destruction to Your Mind”), Stevie Wonder (“Higher Ground”), Billie Holiday (“God Bless the Child”), Eddie Kendricks (“Body Talk”), Curtis Mayfield (“Gypsy Woman”), Muddy Waters/Willie Dixon (“I Just Want to Make Love to You”), Dionne Warwick/Jackie DeShannon (“What the World Needs Now is Love Sweet Love”), Marvin Gaye (“Mercy Mercy Me – The Ecology”), Leon Thomas (“Let the Rain Fall on Me”) and Sy Miller and Jill Jackson (“Let There Be Peace on Earth”). Power of Peace also premieres a new song, “I Remember”, written and sung by Cindy Blackman Santana.

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Santana – Lotus: Complete Edition (2017) DSF DSD256 + Hi-Res FLAC

Santana – Lotus: Complete Edition (2017)
DSD256 (.dff) 1 bit/11,28 MHz MHz | Time – 02:37:01  minutes | 24,7 GB
or FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 02:37:01 minutes | 5,91 GB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: e-Onkyo.jp | Front Cover | © Sony Music

“Lotus” is a 1974 live album by the Latin rock band Santana, recorded at the Osaka Kosei Nenkin Hall, Osaka, Japan in 1973. It was originally released in 1974 as a triple vinyl LP in Japan only. This version of the album was later released internationally. In 2017 a limited edition version was released as “Lotus: Complete Edition”. This release is a 3 disc set with seven previously unreleased bonus tracks. This is also a Japan only release.

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Santana – The Best Of Santana (1998) [Reissue 2015] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Santana – The Best Of Santana (1998) [Reissue 2015]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 76:55 minutes | Scans included | 3,11 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,48 GB

The Best of Santana is a 16-track collection that greatly expands the scope of Santana’s previous hits compilation, Greatest Hits. Drawing from the band’s entire 30-year career, the disc contains such familiar items as “Evil Ways,” “Jingo,” “Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen,” and “Oye Como Va,” but it also has a number of longtime favorites of the band and fans. Furthermore, all the songs have been subjected to Super Bit remastering, resulting in the best sound ever. For some casual fans, Greatest Hits remains definitive, since it’s a portrait of the band at its peak, but listeners wanting a career-spanning single-disc compilation will find that The Best of Santana suits their needs.

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Santana – Santana III (1971) [MFSL 2016] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Santana – Santana III (1971) [MFSL 2016]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 41:07 minutes | Scans included | 1,67 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 857 MB
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # UDSACD 2158

Santana III is an album that undeservingly stands in the shadows behind the towering legend that is the band’s second album, Abraxas. This was also the album that brought guitarist Neal Schon – who was 17 years old – into the original core lineup of Santana. Percussionist Thomas “Coke” Escovedo was brought in to replace (temporarily) José Chepitó Areas, who had suffered a brain aneurysm, yet who recovered quickly and rejoined the band. The rest were Carlos, organist Gregg Rolie, drummer Michael Schrieve, bassist David Brown, and conguero Michael Carabello. “Batuka” is the powerful first evidence of something being very different. The band was rawer, darker, and more powerful with twin leads and Schon’s harder, edgier rock & roll sound paired with Carlos’ blend of ecstatic high notes and soulful fills. It cooks – funky, mean, and tough. “Batuka” immediately transforms itself into “No One to Depend On,” by Escovedo, Carabello, and Rolie. The middle section is highlighted by frantic handclaps, call-and-response lines between Schon and Rolie, and Carlos joining the fray until the entire track explodes into a frenzied finale. And what’s most remarkable is that the set just keeps on cooking, from the subtle slow burn of “Taboo” to the percussive jam workout that is “Toussaint l’Overture,” a live staple in the band’s set list recorded here for the first time (and featuring some cooking Rolie organ work at its beginning). “Everybody’s Everything” is here, as is “Guajira” and “Jungle Strut” – tunes that are still part of Santana’s live show. With acoustic guitars, gorgeous hand percussion, and Santana’s fragile lead vocal, “Everything’s Coming Our Way” is the only “feel good” track here, but it’s a fitting way to begin winding the album down with its Schon and Santana guitar breaks. The album ends with a completely transformed reading of Tito Puente’s “Para los Rumberos,” complete with horns and frantic, almost insanely fast hand drumming and cowbell playing. It’s an album that has aged extremely well due to its spare production (by Carlos and the band) and its live sound. This is essential Santana, a record that deserves to be reconsidered in light of its lasting abundance and vision.

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Santana – Santana (1969) [MFSL 2015] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Santana – Santana (1969) [MFSL 2015]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 36:55 minutes | Scans included | 1,5 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 728 MB
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # UDSACD 2151

Carlos Santana was originally in his own wing of the Latin Rock Hall of Fame, neither playing Afro-Cuban with rock guitar, as did Malo, nor flavoring mainstream rock with percussion, as did Chicago. His first record, as with the best fusion, created something a little different than just a mixture – a new style that, surprisingly, remains all his own. Granted that Latin music has seeped into the mainstream since, but why aren’t Van Halen and Metallica listening to this? Where they simmer, Santana boils over.

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Santana – Santana (1969) [Japan 2020] MCH SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Santana – Santana (1969) [Japan 2020]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 & DST64 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 37:09 minutes | Scans included | 2,78 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Basic Scans included | 1,46 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | 36:57 m | Scans included | 848 MB
Features Stereo and Quadrophonic Surround Sound | Sony Japan # SICJ 10034

Santana’s self-titled 1969 debut album is released as a multi-channel quad SACD Hybrid edition for the first time by Sony Japan. Converted from the original 1974 Quadraphonic master to DSD, plus the stereo mix mastered from the latest remastering.

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Santana – Lotus (1974) [Japan 2017] MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Santana – Lotus (1974) [Japan 2017]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 & DST64 4.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 156:58 minutes | Full Scans included | 11,6 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 157:02 mins | Full Scans included | 3,22 GB
Features Stereo & Quadrophonic Surround Sound | Re-Mixed in 2017 and reissued with 7 previously unreleased tracks

Recorded in Japan in July 1973, this massive, three-LP live album was available outside the United States in 1974 but held back from domestic release in the U.S. It features the same “New Santana Band” that recorded Welcome, and combines that group’s jazz and spiritual influences with performances of earlier Latin rock favorites like “Oye Como Va”.

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Santana – Lotus (1974) [Audio Fidelity 2016] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Santana – Lotus (1974) [Audio Fidelity 2016]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 118:49 minutes | Scans included | 1,99 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 2,52 GB
Mastered by Steve Hoffman & Steven Marsh | Audio Fidelity # AFZ2-247

Recorded in Japan in July 1973, this massive, three-LP live album was available outside the United States in 1974 but held back from domestic release in the U.S. It features the same “New Santana Band” that recorded Welcome, and combines that group’s jazz and spiritual influences with performances of earlier Latin rock favorites like “Oye Como Va”.

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Santana – Caravanserai (1972) [MFSL SACD 2011] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Santana – Caravanserai (1972) [MFSL SACD 2011]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 51:27 minutes | Scans included | 2,13 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,04 GB
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # UDSACD 2079

Drawing on rock, salsa, and jazz, Santana recorded one imaginative, unpredictable gem after another during the 1970s. But Caravanserai is daring even by Santana’s high standards. Carlos Santana was obviously very hip to jazz fusion — something the innovative guitarist provides a generous dose of on the largely instrumental Caravanserai. Whether its approach is jazz-rock or simply rock, this album is consistently inspired and quite adventurous. Full of heartfelt, introspective guitar solos, it lacks the immediacy of Santana or Abraxas. Like the type of jazz that influenced it, this pearl (which marked the beginning of keyboardist/composer Tom Coster’s highly beneficial membership in the band) requires a number of listenings in order to be absorbed and fully appreciated. But make no mistake: this is one of Santana’s finest accomplishments.

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Santana – Abraxas (1970) [Japanese SACD 2001] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Santana – Abraxas (1970) [Japanese SACD 2001]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 50:36 minutes | Scans included | 2,07 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,01 GB
Features the 1998 Remastering on SACD format

The San Francisco Bay Area rock scene of the late ’60s was one that encouraged radical experimentation and discouraged the type of mindless conformity that’s often plagued corporate rock. When one considers just how different Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, and the Grateful Dead sounded, it becomes obvious just how much it was encouraged. In the mid-’90s, an album as eclectic as Abraxas would be considered a marketing exec’s worst nightmare. But at the dawn of the 1970s, this unorthodox mix of rock, jazz, salsa, and blues proved quite successful. Whether adding rock elements to salsa king Tito Puente’s “Oye Como Va,” embracing instrumental jazz-rock on “Incident at Neshabur” and “Samba Pa Ti,” or tackling moody blues-rock on Fleetwood Mac’s “Black Magic Woman,” the band keeps things unpredictable yet cohesive. Many of the Santana albums that came out in the ’70s are worth acquiring, but for novices, Abraxas is an excellent place to start.

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Santana – Abraxas (1970) [MFSL 2016] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Santana – Abraxas (1970) [MFSL 2016]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 37:09 minutes | Scans included | 1,52 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 758 MB
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # UDSACD 2151

The San Francisco Bay Area rock scene of the late ’60s was one that encouraged radical experimentation and discouraged the type of mindless conformity that’s often plagued corporate rock. When one considers just how different Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, and the Grateful Dead sounded, it becomes obvious just how much it was encouraged. In the mid-’90s, an album as eclectic as Abraxas would be considered a marketing exec’s worst nightmare. But at the dawn of the 1970s, this unorthodox mix of rock, jazz, salsa, and blues proved quite successful. Whether adding rock elements to salsa king Tito Puente’s “Oye Como Va,” embracing instrumental jazz-rock on “Incident at Neshabur” and “Samba Pa Ti,” or tackling moody blues-rock on Fleetwood Mac’s “Black Magic Woman,” the band keeps things unpredictable yet cohesive. Many of the Santana albums that came out in the ’70s are worth acquiring, but for novices, Abraxas is an excellent place to start.

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Santana – Abraxas (1970) [Japan 2020] MCH SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Santana – Abraxas (1970) [Japan 2020]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 & DST64 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 37:27 minutes | Basic Scans | 2,8 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Basic Scans included | 1,48 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | 37:21 m | Basic Scans | 867 MB
Features Stereo and Quadrophonic Surround Sound | Sony Japan # SICJ 10135

Abraxas remains the consummate Latin rock album. The confident sound of Santana stretching out and carving out a distinctive new genre, the 1970 set is daubed with psychedelic accents and Afro-Latin grooves. This reissue becomes available as a multi-channel quad SACD Hybrid edition for the first time by Sony Japan. Converted from the original 1974 Quadraphonic master to DSD, plus the stereo mix mastered from the latest remastering.

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Santana – Studio Masters Collection (20 Studio Albums, 1969-2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Santana – Studio Masters Collection (20 Studio Albums, 1969-2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz | Time – 17:16:25 minutes | 21.56 GB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks, Qobuz, AcousticSounds
© Columbia Records / Sony Music Entertainment | Recorded: 1969-2014

Santana is a Latin rock band. Founded in San Francisco during the late 1960s, it is based around the compositions and playing of lead guitarist and founder Carlos Santana. The band first came to widespread public attention when their performance of their Latin rock song “Soul Sacrifice” at Woodstock in 1969 provided a contrast to other acts on the bill. This exposure helped propel their first album, also named Santana, into a hit, followed in the next two years by the successful Abraxas and Santana III.
In the years that followed lineup changes were common. Carlos Santana’s increasing involvement with guru Sri Chinmoy took the band into more esoteric music, though never quite losing its initial Latin influence.
In 1998, the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with Carlos Santana, Jose Chepito Areas, David Brown, Gregg Rolie, Mike Carabello and Michael Shrieve being honored.
The band has earned eight Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards, the latter all in 2000. Carlos also won Grammy Awards as a solo artist in 1989 and 2003. Santana has sold more than 90 million records worldwide, making them one of the world’s best-selling groups of all time. In 2013, Santana announced a reunion of the classic line-up for a new record, predicting a 2014 release. They are tied with having the most won Grammys in one night.

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