SANTANA "AQUA MARINE / MANTRA / MIRAGE"
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HIGHLY LIMITED 12” featuring some of Santana’s finest work---as compiled by slow/to\speak’s Paul Nickerson & Francis Englehardt. These records hail from the elusive, almost mystical years of mid-late 20th Century musical genius, an era whose boundaries defy demarcation, except to say its legacy must have commenced somewhere between the budding possibilities (both political and metaphysical) of the late 1960’s to the ultimate crumbling of those newly resurrected aspirations only shortly after having sprung to life---the dark times, when quality music shifted its concentrated focus from the introverted and attentively concerned to the essentially cathartic, escapist and hedonistic. A time when the Old World seemed to gasp for its last breathe as it kneeled in defeat to the tide of new thought and action, this era viewed and (more importantly) utilized music as the centrifugal anchor, the chief intersecting point of political, social and spiritual life, a meeting place for the realms of the radically new and the anciently sacred. This was a time when new techniques of spiritual practice and enlightenment were taken seriously---not as the latest coping mechanism to enable the week-willed and broken hearted to stomach just a few more moments of their miserable existences, but rather as a revolutionary and fresh means to achieve transcendence from the often-limiting terrain of the physical realm.
The records featured on this stunning collection really do manifest in aural form this significant though sadly short-lived project of exploratory spirituality, experimenting with the very Forms of music, rhythm and sound to produce some of the most effective, moving and sublime records to ever have graced this Earth. Some of these records have not seen a proper 12” release, such as “Aqua Marine”; others, like “Mantra”," never saw the light of day until just recently, and for the first time on vinyl with this latest of Slow To Speak releases. Regardless, this record should be worthy of taking serious note, if only as a marker, a memory, commemorating the now close to forgotten age of spiritual realization as acheived through the practice of music---it's writing and performance, of course, but more importantly, it's actually being used as a direct means to expand and explore the normally confining domain of everyday life.
The records featured on this stunning collection really do manifest in aural form this significant though sadly short-lived project of exploratory spirituality, experimenting with the very Forms of music, rhythm and sound to produce some of the most effective, moving and sublime records to ever have graced this Earth. Some of these records have not seen a proper 12” release, such as “Aqua Marine”; others, like “Mantra”," never saw the light of day until just recently, and for the first time on vinyl with this latest of Slow To Speak releases. Regardless, this record should be worthy of taking serious note, if only as a marker, a memory, commemorating the now close to forgotten age of spiritual realization as acheived through the practice of music---it's writing and performance, of course, but more importantly, it's actually being used as a direct means to expand and explore the normally confining domain of everyday life.
| Tracklisting | ||
| Side A. | ||
| 1. Mantra (Previously Unreleased) | ||
| Side B. | ||
| 1. Aqua Marine | ||
| 2. Mirage | ||
| Artist | Title | |
| SANTANA | MANTRA | |
| Label | Cat.# | |
| COLUMBIA | XSM-167580 | |
| Year | Format | |
| 2008 | 12" | |
| Additional Info. | ||
