Festival [Vinyl LP] [Stereo] [Original recording]

Santana | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording
• Label: Columbia
• ASIN: B001AZWCLE
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #282,277 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

STEREO VINYL LP! Santana: Festival! 1977 Columbia Release! TRACKS: A1. Carnaval (2:16); A2. Let The Children Play (3:28); A3. Jugando (2:12); A4. Give Me Love (4:31); A5. Verao Vermelho (5:00); A6. Let The Music Set You Free (3:40); B1. Revelations (4:32); B2. Reach Up (5:22); B3. The River (4:55); B4. Try A Little Harder (5:04); & B5. Maria Caracoles (4:34).

Customer Reviews

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Carlos misunderstood again, September 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Festival (Audio CD)

Every time Carlos Santana comes out with an album that is not what most people consider mainstream or typical of what he has done in the past, he gets critized badly(never mind that it might be good). Some of his best tunes don't get air time (Treat, Samba Pa Ti, Touissant L'Overture, Song of the Wind, Europa, Baila mi Hermana, etc.) This album is one of those, along with Borboletta, Amigos, Inner Secrets, Marathon, etc. Carlos Santana comes from a very rich musical background that unless you grew up in it, would be hard to understand. In Latin America you get to listen to Salsa, merengues, samba, cumbia and countless other latin rhythms plus the Afro and European influences and also Jazz and rock. For example take the song Maria Caracoles in this album, this was a very popular song in Cuba during the sixties made popular by Peyo El Afrocan, it was a rhythm called El Mozambique. Although Carlos( and his brother Jorge) has a tone on the guitar that is unmistakable. The phrasing and feel is very common in Latin music specially in romantic songs or Trio music. Listen to Los Panchos, trio Matamoros, Los Tres Aces and my favorite Los Tres Caballeros and you will know what I mean. If you are a Latin person over forty you will relate to a lot of Carlos phrasing even if it is a new tune. Flor D'Luna from Moonflower is typical of this. This Festival album from the seventies is very enjoyable. If you keep an open mind you will like it too.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Richly varied Latino masterpiece - the Supernatural of 1976, January 15, 2000

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Eric S (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Festival (Audio CD)

This is a richly varied album containing fine quality cuts in a number of genres including as hot a Latin boogie as anything from Lou Bega, Ricky Martin and others in "Maria Caracoles", "Let the Music Set You Free" and a very warm, if not chili-hot "Let The Children Play". There are also atmospheric instrumentals such as "Revelations" and a beautiful soul ballad "The River". On 'Festival' Carlos showed he could mix it brilliantly in 1976 just as he did 23 years later on Supernatural. A very enjoyable listen.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Festival but no triumph, June 2, 2002

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Jinkyu - See all my reviews

This review is from: Festival (Audio CD)

Festival displays the always-fine guitar of Carlos Santana and the keyboards of Tom Coster, and has some high points. There are two standout pretty tracks: the acoustic, Brazilian (and sort of flamenco) "Verao Vermelho" and the haunting "Revelations," with its fine guitar work speeding up, as in "Europa." The lively "Carnaval" and "Jugando" contain excellent performances by Chepito Areas and the rest of the percussion section. However, these songs and others, verseline and music, lack the edge of Santana's earlier days, instead showcasing plain-sounding Latin rhythms, and the other softer songs are of lesser quality. In addition, Carlos' latter-day inclination to delve into mediocre funk pops up on a number of tracks, not of interest to me, and many. Santana would display a brief return to form on the studio tracks of the immediately subsequent Moonflower, but Festival is another example of the phasing out of the excellent sound of the group's first six years.