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HFC_A4_Ad_blank.indd 1 10/03/2016 11:36 O’Brien Hi-Fi Est.1966 ENJOYING MUSIC TOGETHER FOR 50 YEARS Pro Audio Bono Very effective anti-vibration feet made of nickel-copper alloy, with ceramic bearings Analogue Seduction are dedicated towards two channel Hi-Fi, specialising in vinyl replay. As well as our on-line shop we have dedicated demonstration retail facilities based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and we can offer our customers home demonstrations. We stock the finest in amplification, analogue, digital replay and speakers. We also specialise in a cable termination and cable burn in service. tel. 020 8946 1528 60 DURHAM ROAD - WIMBLEDON - SW20 0TW www.obrienhifi.com Please visit our website www.analogueseduction.net to browse or purchase products that are not easily available elsewhere. New vinyl records now stocked Tel: +44 (0)1733 350878 manufacturer: dealer: biuro@proaudiobono.pl sales@lotus340r.net www.proaudiobono.pl Analogue Seduction, The Manor House, Manor www.lotus340r.net View, Whittlesey, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE7 1TF
100 White Lung Paradise 101 Accademia Bizantina Haydn Symphonies 101 Xiayin Wang Tchaikovsky/ Khachaturian piano concertos BACK IN THE nineties, Carlos Santana appeared to be a spent force. His records had stopped selling, the inspiration had dried up and he was dropped by Columbia. Then in 1999, and already into his fifties, he teamed up with a star-studded cast of young singers including Lauryn Hill, Cee Lo Green and Wyclef Jean to record Supernatural. It seemed like the last throw, but it worked spectacularly. Supernatural gave him his first number one since 1971 and won nine Grammy awards. Further hit albums repeated the all-star guests formula. Yet although his guitar playing was as burnished as ever and the youthful collaborators felicitously contemporised his sound, for long-time fans it was no substitute for the Afro-Latin rock fusion which set alight the 1969 Woodstock festival. Now for the first time in 45 years Santana has reunited with Woodstock survivors Gregg Rolie on Santana Santana IV keyboards and vocals, guitarist Neil Schon and percussionists Michael Shrieve and Michael Carabello. Only bassist Michael Brown, who died in 2000, and conga player Jose ‘Chepito’ Areas are missing, replaced by Benny Rietveld and Karl Perazzo respectively. The classic lineup which Santana put together in the late sixties stayed together for just three albums, hence the title of their ‘reunion’ album, which sounds gloriously like you might have expected Santana IV to sound if they had made it in 1972. If that seems conservative, then bear in mind how radical and quite unlike anything else in the rock firmament Santana sounded at the time. The group’s combustible fusion of Latin rhythms, Afro-percussion and electrifying psychedelic-blues guitar solos was revelatory, a thrilling hybrid of global styles two decades before the term ‘world CD Thirty Tigers music’ had been invented. The band are now all in their late sixties, of course, although they play with an energy that effortlessly rolls back the years. The opener Yambu swirls around Hammond organ, crunching guitars and an African chant to sound like a first cousin to Jingo from the group’s 1969 debut. Anywhere You Want To Go has a Latin-soul rhythm reminiscent of Oye Como Va from 1970’s career-defining Abraxas. Fillmore East is a spacey, acid-rock instrumental jam, All Aboard is a contemporary update on their Woodstock showstopper Soul Sacrifice, the moody Latino tones of Sueños evoke the slow burn of their classic Samba Pa Ti and Blues Magic delivers exactly what its title promises. You cannot recreate the past. But Santana IV is living proof that when nostalgia is celebrated with such freshness and energy it can be jubilantly irresistible. NW MAY 2016 99
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