Santana – Sentient
Santana – Sentient
Format: CD – Vinyl LP – Digital
Label: Candid Records
Release: 2025
Release date: March 28, 2025
‘Sentient’ is composed of 11 dazzling tracks – three of them previously unreleased – compiled by the virtuoso guitarist, remastered and sequenced in a way that allows a new and dramatic story to emerge
As is often the case when the spark of musical magic strikes, Santana was surprised, delighted and receptive. “I’m always driven by passion, emotion and inner instinct,” he says. “When I first heard these tracks floating around in the house, I said, ‘Why don’t we put these all in one place?’”
Listeners will be captivated as they experience a live instrumental take on Michael Jackson’s haunting ballad, “Stranger in Moscow,” officially released for the first time.
Recorded in 2007 with producer and drummer Narada Michael Walden’s band, it’s a devastating masterclass performance – Santana’s guitar playing is by turns soulful and poetic, blitzing and blinding, and always breathtakingly imaginative.
Website: https://www.santana.com/
Tracks:
01. Let the Guitar Play – Radio Version (Featuring Darryl “DMC” McDaniels)
02. Stranger in Moscow
03. Whatever Happens – Sentient Version (Featuring Michael Jackson)
04. Please Don’t Take Your Love – Sentient Version (Featuring Smokey Robinson)
05. Get on – Sentient Version (Featuring Miles Davis & Paolo Rustichelli)
06. Vers Le Soleil – Sentient Version (Featuring Paolo Rustichelli)
07. Rastafario – Sentient Version (Featuring Miles Davis & Paolo Rustichelli)
08. Full Moon – Sentient Version (Featuring Paolo Rustichelli)
09. I’ll Be Waiting
10. Coherence (Featuring Cindy Blackman Santana)
11. Blues for Salvador