Line #40 Music/AbraxasAlbum


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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