[MoreCowbell]

double post. sorry 'bout that...

 

[vcoheda]

good album. super mellow. her album "the greatest" is better though.

 

[unkle11]

hmm getting repeated alot on my play list

1. Gallop - claude bolling and yo yo ma
2. fingerbib - alarm will sound (orchestra cover of aphex twin songs)
3. antilopen - peterlicht

 

[Caribou679]

Uzeb- Noisy Nights

 

[TMM]

The Thrillseekers - Nightmusic Volume 1

 

[krmathis]

"Before... After" - Further Attempts

 

[Quaddy]

alcazar - crying at the discotheque

 

[Hi-Finthen]

Everybody's Everything /
Everything's Coming Our Way

Santana

Santana III Legacy
35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
[2-disk, Feb 21, 2006, Remastered recording value: A+]

Santana: Gregg Rolie (vocals, piano, organ); Carlos Santana (guitar, background vocals); Neal Schon (guitar); Jose Chepito Areas (flugelhorn, drums, congas, timbales, percussion, background vocals); Michael Shrieve (vibraphone, drums, percussion); David Brown (bass guitar); Michael Carabello (congas, tambourine, percussion, background vocals).

Following on the heels of Santana's 1970 breakthrough, ABRAXAS, 1971's SANTANA III is teeming with the eclectic mix of rock, blues, jazz, R&B, and Latin rhythms for which the band is known. Though somewhat more jam-oriented than its predecessor, SANTANA III is no less of an achievement. Full of percolating webs of percussion, jazzy keys parts, infectious call-and-response vocals, and the searing twin guitar attacks of Carlos Santana and Neal Schon (who later went on to form Journey), the album is an absorbing sonic experience from back to front.

Given Carlos Santana's late-career partnerships with everyone from Rob Thomas to the Black Eyed Peas, it's sometimes hard to remember that his band was a product of San Francisco's late-'60s psychedelic rock scene. While the band's music represents the wide-open aesthetic of that milieu, it also dates much better than other music of the time, in large part because of its groove-oriented accessibility and the formidable skills of the musicians. SANTANA III holds up particularly well, and sounds not a whit out of place in the mashed-up, multi-culti 2000s. The 35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition features remastered sound and a bonus disc of Santana performing live at San Francisco's Fillmore auditorium in 1971.


Review
Rolling Stone (p.63) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Everybody sounds stoked -- the rhythm section drives guitarist Carlo Santana into simultaneously agitated and poised solos that sustain an elusive state of polyrhythmic bliss."
Uncut (p.120) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[C]onsistent, refined and confident, with the core six-piece adding teenage guitar sensation Neal Schon to spar aggressively with Carlos Santana on the blistering 'Jungle Strut'."
Down Beat (p.91) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Showcasing solid original material and well-chosen covers, SANTANA III contains the perfect balance of flash and substance, grace and power, and mind and body."
Dirty Linen (p.83) - "The live set shows just how far the band had come since Woodstock....The entire set shows the band at the peak of their creative powers."

 

[riceboy]

George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

 

[jsaliga]

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Cat Power - You are Free

180g vinyl

--Jerome

 

[virometal]

Worker - Prinzhorn Dance School

I bought this based on a Pitchfork review - pretty interesting. Sounds like post punk stripped even more bare; thinking Wire circa "Pink Flags" here with even more stuff taken out.

Tram 21 - Electrelane

 

[mrarroyo]

Lost And Gone - Candy Dulfer

 

[Manny Calavera]

'Freedom' -- Jurassic 5 // Power In numbers

 

[DLeeWebb]

"White Tooth Man" - Iron & Wine

 

[paulb09]

Nine Inch Nails - La Mer