SANTANA : THE LAST NIGHT AT BUDOKAN

Disc One (63:08)

1. Intro
2. Paradiso / Are You Ready People
3. Toussaint L'Ouverture
4. Maria Maria
5. Foo Foo
6. Corazón espinado
7. Incident at Neshabur
8. Happy Birthday
9. Europa
10. Jingo
11. Evil Ways / A Love Supreme
12. orinoco

Disc Two (50:01)

1. Rain / Kate
2. She's Not There
3. Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen
4. Oye como va
5. Soul Sacrifice / Drums Solo
6. Smooth
7. Love, Peace and Happiness
8. Outro

Label : JPLive

Venue : Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan

Recording Date : April 27, 2017

Quality : IEM Soundboard Matrix Recording (A+)

Review (TUBE) : Santana overkill? Perhaps. My Santana fetisj has become less and less during the last couple of years, mainly because of the the musical direction Carlos has decided to choose. Very very mediocre with the album Power of Peace, with the Isley Brothers as an absolute deep..... And not to speak of the high rate of the predictability of the live shows. But when I came across a SBD of April's Budokan (a historical venue for Santana) I thought I'd share it here. In fact....not much new here. Two tracks from the Isley album, a very weird cover of Enya's Orinoco Flow (why on earth did they do that), while Kate/Rain/La Jean is a nice piano/bass interplay with a heavy guitar ending. The band has been stripped down a bit but in classics like Toussaint, Incident, Jingo and BMW/GQ still tight as hell. The way A Love Supreme is played appeals to me far more than in the past. Great to hear some teases of Every Step of the Way in She's not there. When I look into your eyes is, as on the album embedded in the last part of Are you ready people.