Genre: Rock
Format: CDDA
Label: Purple Pyramid
Quality: Flac + Tracks + Log + Scans
Recording Date: 2000
Size: 274 МБ + 323 МБ
To all you people that think Supernatural is a great Santana album, this cd is not for you.
Review
by William Ruhlmann, allmusic.com
Santana's record catalog was orderly from its debut album in 1969 to the band's departure from Columbia Records at the start of the 1990s. Then gray market, or at least, unauthorized minor-label unearthings of stray material began to come out of the woodwork, their numbers swelling with the rise of the CD era and, at the end of the 1990s, with the group's popular resurgence such that, by the start of the new millennium, there was a glut of albums of uncertain origin in the discography. Here's a good example. Mystical Spirits Parts 1 & 2 is a double-CD of recordings that seem to derive from Santana's early days on the San Francisco ballroom circuit, i.e., 1966-68. (Liner notes writer Skip Heller says that they come from "a couple of years" prior to the group's signing to Columbia Records, which took place in 1968.) Carlos Santana has said that, during this period, Santana's set consisted largely of jams rather than songs, and that tendency is confirmed on these recordings, many of which are lengthy instrumentals, though there are versions of earlySantana favorites "Persuasion" and "Evil Ways." Some of the jams don't sound much likeSantana, lacking the familiar Latin percussion and even Carlos Santana's signature guitar sound. Often, they sound like much of the acid rock that was popular in San Francisco at the time. In fact, it would not be surprising to discover that some of this material isn't really Santana at all. The 15-and-a-half-minute "Funky Piano," for example, seems to have a couple of guitarists, one of whom sounds like Jefferson Airplane's Jorma Kaukonen, and the 14-minute "Just Ain't Good Enough" sounds more like Quicksilver Messenger Servicethan Santana. The last two tracks on each of the two CDs are remixes. At the end of Disc one the track listed as "Persuasion" is not "Persuasion" at all, but some other song, while "Hot Tamales," which follows, does feature a loop of Santana vocalist Gregg Rolie singing, "You've got persuasion!" Overall, then, Mystical Spirits has the uneven, buyer-beware characteristics of a bootleg, even if it is technically a legal release.
By Matthew Burris (Danielson, ct United States)
To all you people that think Supernatural is a great Santana album, this cd is not for you. This Cd simply ripps!!!! It is pure Santana in his rock and roll era.The recordings are from 1966, when Santana was just making a name for himself. He wants all the "new fans" and "Supernatural fans" to realize what his roots really are. This cd is filled with incredible jams and some incredible blues riffs. Any true Santana fan will find this cd remarkable to say the least. As for the quality, what do you want for a 1966 recording?? the cd is in stereo and was not intended to be a follow up album to Supernatural which is actually th "odd-ball" of any and all Santana albums...If you are looking for a starting point to explore Santana music, start with the first albums and not here. If you want to boogie your sneakers off,buy this cd. You will not regret it. Jam band lovers will flip for this stuff. Don't listen to a teenagers point of view for this album.. buy and enjoy!!!! — AMAZON
Disc 1
1 Hot Tamales Weiss 8:02
2 As the Years Go By Santana 3:55
3 Coconut Grove Weiss 2:27
4 Every Day I Have the Blues Memphis Slim 7:06
5 Persuasion Areas, Brown, Carabello, Rolie… 5:17
6 Jam in G Minor Curcio 7:56
7 As the Years Go By [Remixed by Matt Green] Santana 4:01
8 Persuasion [Remixed by Julian Beeston] Areas, Brown, Carabello, Rolie… 4:12
Disc 2
1 Evil Ways Henry, Zack 7:53
2 Funky Piano Curcio 15:34
3 Just Ain't Good Enough Curcio 14:10
4 The Way You Do to Me Curcio 10:17
5 With a Little Help from My Friends Lennon, McCartney 4:07
6 Evil Ways [Remixed by Julian Beeston] Henry, Zack 4:37
7 Let's Get Ourselves Together [Remixed by Matt Green] Santana 4:19
Total — 1:43:54
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