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Date: June 26, 2019 at 10:43:09
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Santana's Newest/Africa Speaks... |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD4a7bAnhrM&list=PLW0qrlJ-5IPmYy6pMLK1wv4Fq8V3bIFMm |
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...featuring Buika, whose voice/energy is...just...OMG.
OMG.
And with Carlos & tribe...magical mainline soulfeeding
synergies... Boy have I needed this... ;->
Full album at link...
Nice article posted below this...
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Date: June 26, 2019 at 15:58:24
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Title Track Lyrics... ;-) |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYC3jS0lc-8 |
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*Africa Speaks*
"Deep in the jungle, beyond the reach of greed
You hear the voices of spirits
With their frequency of light
Making sounds like the crackling of stars at night
Communicating with plants, animals and mankind
Affirming the Universal Truth
All and everything was conceived here in Africa
The cradle of civilization"
(my translations:)
"Of passing peace
of love speaks the book of men
and the fire in the sea
poison and salt
Of love and war
poison
poison
Of peace and war
speaks the book of men
and the fire in the sea
poison and salt
In the treacherous nights
kisses fly aimlessly
there is fire in the sea
poison and salt
poison and salt
poison and salt
poison and salt"
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Date: June 26, 2019 at 10:48:03
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Santana Finds Worthy Partner in Buika |
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/arts/music/santana-buika-africa-speaks.html |
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Excerpt:
"The call was completely unexpected. It was Concha
Buika’s manager on the phone to say that Carlos
Santana had invited her to work on the album he was
making. 'I was like, no!”'Buika recalled by telephone
from her home in Miami. 'I was so nervous and so
excited. I couldn’t believe it.'
Buika is a multilingual singer and songwriter from
Spain who has fused flamenco, jazz, rock, African and
Afro-Caribbean rhythms and more. She won a Latin
Grammy in 2010 for the album 'El ÚltimoTrago,' a
collaboration with the Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés,
revisiting rancheras from the Mexican singer Chavela
Vargas. (Although Buika and the Santana band have
done a few performances together, they are touring
separately this summer. Buika is performing at
Central Park SummerStage on Sunday.)
Buika expected to be a guest vocalist, for perhaps a
song or two, on an album filled with other guests and
would-be pop hits, along the lines of Santana’s 1999
blockbuster “Supernatural,” which has sold more than
15 million copies in the United States alone. (On
tour this year, Santana is celebrating that album’s
20th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of his
barn-burning Woodstock set.) Instead, Buika became
the singer and co-writer of every song on 'Africa
Speaks,' Santana’s new album.
'Africa Speaks' ranks with the fiercest albums in
Santana’s 50-year career. It doesn’t aim for neat,
concise, radio-ready tracks like 'Supernatural,'
which featured the Rob Thomas collaboration 'Smooth.'
It is built on volatile, live-in-the-studio jams that
can stretch out or pivot suddenly and startlingly —
like the nine-minute “Blue Skies,” which starts out
jazzy and meditative but veers into hard-riffing
blues rock. Through most of the album, Santana, 71,
plays guitar with a slash-and-burn attack. Buika’s
voice, which carries the taut, intricate arabesques
and throat-tearing passion of flamenco toward rock
peaks, is every bit its equal."
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