Vinyl Album - Santana - Lotus - CBS Sony

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Santana
Title:	Lotus
Label:	CBS Sony
Country:	Japan
Catalogue:	SOPZ 7-8-9
Date:	21 May 1974
Format:	Triple LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Santana	Meditation		Rate
A2	Santana	Going Home	Arranged by Alice Coltrane & The New Santana Band	Rate
A3	Santana	A-1 Funk	The New Santana Band	Rate
A4	Santana	Every Step Of The Way	Michael Shrieve	Rate
B1	Santana	Black Magic Woman	Peter Green	Rate
B2	Santana	Gypsy Queen	Gabor Szabo	Rate
B3	Santana	Oye Como Va	Tito Puente	Rate
B4	Santana	Yours Is The Light	Richard Kermode	Rate
B5	Santana	Batukada	The New Santana Band	Rate
B6	Santana	Xibaba (She-Ba-Ba)	Airto	Rate
C1	Santana	Stone Flower (Introduction)	Antônio Carlos Jobim	Rate
C2	Santana	Waiting	The Old Santana Band	Rate
C3	Santana	Castillos De Arena, Part 1 (Sand Castles)	Chick Corea, Joachim Young, The New Santana Band	Rate
C4	Santana	Free Angera	Bayete	Rate
C5	Santana	Samba De Sausalito	Jose 'Chepito' Areas	Rate
D1	Santana	Mantra	Carlos Santana, Michael Shrieve, Tom Coster	Rate
D2	Santana	Kyoto (Drum Solo)		Rate
D3	Santana	Castillos De Arena, Part 2 (Sand Castles)	Chick Corea, Joachim Young, The New Santana Band	Rate
D4	Santana	Se A Cabo	Jose 'Chepito' Areas	Rate
E1	Santana	Samba Pa Ti	Carlos Santana	Rate
E2	Santana	Savor	The Old Santana Band	Rate
E3	Santana	Toussaint L'Overture	The Old Santana Band	Rate
F1	Santana	Incident At Neshabur	Carlos Santana, Albert Gianquinto	Rate

Notes

SQ matrix quadraphonic sound
Recorded live July 3 & 4, 1973 at Koseinenkin Hall in Osaka, Japan

Comments and Reviews


jp975345_cat 20th Oct 2023		Only available as import (from Japan) in the US and UK when issued (on vinyl) in 1974. Not issued in US (on vinyl) until 2000. Never issued in UK (on vinyl). Issued (on CD) US & UK 1991. nb. due to misprint on all 1974 artwork.Track E2 should be titled 'Mr. Edo' NOT 'Savor'



kei masaru 25th Mar 2023		Added release date (day). This LP was charted at #12 (Japan's Original Confidence Magazine).



ajtharp 24th Mar 2023		This is one of Santana’s least known albums outside of Japan, for the simple reason that until 1991 it was not released in the US. Carlos Santana: “It was beautiful and ambitious and the music was fresh, but it was nothing that Columbia could handle. With the album cover and packaging and the three disks, it was just too expensive for them. They didn’t believe it would sell enough. Even after the Japanese finally released Lotus in the summer of 1974 and it became the bestselling import at the time, Columbia wouldn’t budge, and even Bill Graham couldn’t make them.” -- from The Music Aficionado, March 24, 2023

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