1 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/santanaabraxas_2660.jpg]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:300: "Oye como va?", black magic woman?]] |
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4 | ''Abraxas'' is the sophomore album from Music/{{Santana}}, released in September 1970. Considered to be one of Santana's finest releases, it helped shape their current sound after the primitive cover-heavy sound of their self-titled debut the year prior, containing some of their best-known tracks, including "Oye como va" and "Black Magic Woman" (both of which, ironically, are nonetheless covers). |
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6 | !!Tracklist |
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8 | [[AC:Side One]] |
9 | # "Singing Winds, Crying Beasts" (4:51) |
10 | # "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen" (5:24) |
11 | # "Oye como va" (4:17) |
12 | # "Incident at Neshabur" (4:58) |
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14 | [[AC:Side Two]] |
15 | # "Se a cabo" (2:50) |
16 | # "Mother's Daughter" (4:25) |
17 | # "Samba pa' ti" (4:45) |
18 | # "Hope You're Feeling Better" (4:10) |
19 | # "El Nicoya" (1:30) |
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21 | !! Black Magic Tropes |
22 | * BilingualBonus: Some tracks are sung in Spanish, others in English. |
23 | * CoverVersion: While most of the tracks are original compositions, the three most famous songs are ironically all covers. |
24 | ** "Black Magic Woman" is a Music/FleetwoodMac cover (an early version of Fleetwood Mac - they were a blues-rock band before they changed some members and recorded their more famous pop material). |
25 | ** "Gypsy Queen" is a cover of Hungarian jazz guitarist Gábor Szabó. |
26 | ** "Oye como va" is a Music/TitoPuente cover. |
27 | * DesignStudentsOrgasm: The album cover is ''Annunciation'', a 1961 painting by German-French painter Mati Klarwein, who also created the covers of Music/MilesDavis' ''Music/BitchesBrew'' and numerous other albums. Santana reportedly saw a reproduction of it in a magazine and asked to use it for the album cover. "It did me a world of good," Klarwein later recalled. |
28 | * GenreMashup: The album mixes rock, blues, and salsa. |
29 | * {{Instrumentals}}: "Singing Winds, Crying Beasts", "Samba pa ti", "Incident at Neshabur". |
30 | * MsFanservice: The woman on the album cover. |
31 | * OneWomanSong: "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen", "Mother's Daughter". |
32 | * OneWordTitle: "Abraxas". |
33 | * ThePowerOfRock: "Oye como va mi ritmo", a song which translates to: "Listen to how my rhythm goes". |
34 | * ShoutOut: |
35 | ** The title is based on a line from Creator/HermannHesse's novel ''Demian'', also quoted on the back cover: |
36 | --> ''We stood before it and began to freeze inside from the exertion. We questioned the painting, berated it, made love to it, prayed to it: We called it mother, called it whore and slut, called it our beloved, called it Abraxas....'' |
37 | ** "Black Magic Woman" was referenced by Music/TheFugees on their album ''Music/TheScore'' (1996) during the track "Zealots": |
38 | --> ''My grammar plays/ like Music/CarlosSantana plays "Black Magic Woman"'' |
39 | ** The movie Film/ASeriousMan features a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tfI9tTzlI0 reference]] to the album, as the son of the protagonist orders it (and other records) from a record club without his permission, much to his surprise. |
40 | * SiameseTwinSongs: "Black Magic Woman" is almost never played on the radio without its outro "Gypsy Queen". They're even indexed as one track on CD versions. On this album, "Gypsy Queen" [[FadingIntoTheNextSong fades into]] "Oye como va" - and they were even often played that way live - but they are generally played separately on the radio. |
41 | * SongStyleShift: Their version of "Black Magic Woman" speeds up for an epic instrumental outro (actually a separate song, "Gypsy Queen"). "Incident at Neshabur" does the exact opposite, starting at a frenetic pace only to slow down abruptly in the second half of the song. |
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