Shape Shifter (album)

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Shape Shifter
Studio album by Santana
Released 14 May 2012
Genre Rock, Latin rock
Length 57:22
Label Starfaith[1]
Santana chronology

Guitar Heaven
(2010)		 Shape Shifter
(2012)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone Brasil [2]
Piero Scaruffi (4/10)[3]

Shape Shifter is the twenty-second studio album (thirty-sixth album overall) by Santana. It was released on 14 May 2012. This album is the first from his new record label Starfaith Records,[4] which is distributed by Sony Music Entertainment, owners of most of Santana's albums (except those recorded for Polydor Records which are owned by Universal Music Group).[5] It is also the first album since 1992's Milagro that does not feature guest singers in any of the songs, a style that characterized Santana's albums since Supernatural. The album contains only one song with vocals ("Eres La Luz").[6] The track "Mr. Szabo" is a homage to the Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó, who released a series of 8 albums for Impulse Records between 1966 and 1967, and one of Carlos Santana's early idols, and features a similar rhythmical and harmonic structure to "Gypsy Queen", a Szabó hit from 1966 covered by Santana in 1970 as a medley with Fleetwood Mac's Black Magic Woman.

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Shape Shifter"  Carlos Santana 6:16
2. "Dom"  Hamidou Touré, Ousmane Touré, Ismaila Touré, Tidiane Sixu Touré 3:51
3. "Nomad"  Carlos Santana 4:49
4. "Metatron"  Carlos Santana 2:39
5. "Angelica Faith"  Carlos Santana, Chester Thompson 5:03
6. "Never the Same Again"  Carlos Santana, Eric Bazilian 5:01
7. "In the Light of a New Day"  Carlos Santana, Narada Michael Walden 5:06
8. "Spark of the Divine"  Carlos Santana 1:03
9. "Macumba in Budapest"  Carlos Santana, Walter Afanasieff 4:01
10. "Mr. Szabo"  Carlos Santana 6:20
11. "Eres La Luz"  Carlos Santana, Walter Afanasieff, Andy Vargas, Karl Perazzo 4:51
12. "Canela"  Carlos Santana, Salvador Santana 5:22
13. "Ah, Sweet Dancer"  Micheal O Suilleabhain 3:08
Total length:
 57:22

Personnel

  • Carlos Santana – guitar
  • Andy Vargas and Tony Lindsay – vocals
  • Chester Thompson – keyboards
  • Dennis Chambers – drums
  • Benny Rietveld – bass
  • Salvador Santana – keyboards
  • Raul Rekow – congas
  • Karl Perazzo – percussion

Charts

Chart (2012) Peak
position
Austrian Albums Chart[7] 29
Canadian Albums Chart[8] 46
Belgian Albums Chart (Vlaanderen)[7] 82
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonie)[7] 27
Dutch Albums Chart[7] 63
French Albums Chart[7] 71
Hungarian Albums Chart[9] 2
Italian Albums Chart[7] 19
Spanish Albums Chart[7] 75
Swiss Albums Chart[7] 8

Year-end charts

Chart (2012) Position
Hungarian Albums Chart[10] 69

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jurek, Thom. "Shape Shifter - Santana | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 17 May 2012. 
  2. ↑ Lima, Carlos Eduardo (6 July 2012). "36º disco marca o retorno de Santana ao formato que caracterizou sua carreira". Rolling Stone Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 July 2012. 
  3. ↑ Scaruffi, Piero (1999). "Carlos Santana". pieroscaruffi.com. Retrieved August 16, 2013. 
  4. ↑ "Santana's 36th Album, 'Shape Shifter,' Set For May 15 Release". GuitarPlayer. Retrieved 2012-05-20. 
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ "Interview: Carlos Santana on his new album, Shape Shifter". MusicRadar.com. 2012-04-27. Retrieved 2012-05-20. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 "Hitparade.ch: Die Offizielle Schweizer Hitparade". Hung Medien. Retrieved 26 August 2013. 
  8. ↑ http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Charts/ALBUMS.html
  9. ↑ "MAHASZ – Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége". mahasz.hu. Retrieved 2012-06-21. 
  10. ↑ "Best selling albums of Hungary in 2012". Mahasz. Retrieved February 7, 2012. 
  • All information from CD release booklet (Copyright © 2012 Starfaith Records, catalog #76692-99966-2).

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