Shape Shifter (album)
2012 studio album by Santana
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Shape Shifter is the twenty-second studio album (thirty-sixth album overall) by Santana. It was released on May 14, 2012. This album is the first from his new record label Starfaith Records,[12] which is distributed by Sony Music Entertainment, the owners of all of Santana's albums (except those recorded for Polydor Records, which are owned by Universal Music Group).[13] It is also the first album since 1992's Milagro that does not feature guest singers in any of the songs, a style that characterized Santana's albums since Supernatural. The album contains only one song with vocals ("Eres La Luz").[14] The track "Mr. Szabo" is an homage to the Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó, one of Carlos Santana's early idols, who released a series of 8 albums for Impulse Records between 1966 and 1967; the track features a similar rhythmical and harmonic structure to "Gypsy Queen", a Szabó recording from 1966 covered by Santana in 1970 as a medley with Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman".
| Shape Shifter | ||||
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Cover art by Rance Hood | ||||
| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | May 14, 2012 | |||
| Genre | Latin rock | |||
| Length | 57:22 | |||
| Label | Starfaith, Sony[1] | |||
| Producer | Carlos Santana, Eric Bazilian, Walter Afanasieff | |||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 45/100[2] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| All About Jazz |  [3] |
| American Songwriter | [4] |
| Classic Rock | 6/10[5] |
| Mojo | [6] |
| PopMatters | 2/10[7] |
| Record Collector | [8] |
| Rolling Stone | [9] |
| Sputnikmusic | 3.5/5[10] |
| Uncut | 4/10[11] |
Track listing
All tracks were written by Carlos Santana, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Shape Shifter" | 6:16 | |
| 2. | "Dom" | Hamidou Touré, Ousmane Touré, Ismaila Touré, Tidiane Sixu Touré | 3:51 |
| 3. | "Nomad" | 4:49 | |
| 4. | "Metatron" | 2:39 | |
| 5. | "Angelica Faith" | C. Santana, Chester Thompson | 5:03 |
| 6. | "Never the Same Again" | C. Santana, Eric Bazilian | 5:01 |
| 7. | "In the Light of a New Day" | C. Santana, Narada Michael Walden | 5:06 |
| 8. | "Spark of the Divine" | 1:03 | |
| 9. | "Macumba in Budapest" | C. Santana, Walter Afanasieff | 4:01 |
| 10. | "Mr. Szabo" | 6:20 | |
| 11. | "Eres La Luz" | C. Santana, Afanasieff, Andy Vargas, Karl Perazzo | 4:51 |
| 12. | "Canela" | C. Santana, Salvador Santana | 5:22 |
| 13. | "Ah, Sweet Dancer" | Micheal O Suilleabhain | 3:08 |
| Total length: | 57:22 | ||
Personnel
- Andy Vargas and Tony Lindsay – vocals (track 11)
- Carlos Santana – guitar
- Chester Thompson – keyboards
- Salvador Santana – keyboards
- Benny Rietveld – bass
- Dennis Chambers – drums
- Karl Perazzo – timbales, percussion
- Raul Rekow – congas, bongos, percussion
- Carlos Hernandez & Jorge Santana – additional guitars on track 3 "Nomad"
Charts
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