From The Forthcoming Passion Filled Retrospective Album, Sentient
Due Out March 28
The set includes masterful collaborations with Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Miles Davis, Paolo Rustichelli, Darryl DMC McDaniels and Cindy Blackman Santana
Multi-Grammy Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Carlos Santana has announced that his passion-filled retrospective album, Sentient, will be released via Candid Records on March 28. The album is available for pre-order now. And TODAY, paying homage to Michael Jackson he proudly releases his live, instrumental version of Jackson’s “Stranger In Moscow,” which features Santana’s soaring guitar and beautiful melodic phrasing.
Sentient is composed of 11 dazzling tracks – three of them previously unreleased – compiled by the virtuoso guitarist, remastered and sequenced in a way that allows a new and dramatic story to emerge. As is often the case when the spark of musical magic strikes, Santana was surprised, delighted and receptive. “I’m always driven by passion, emotion and inner instinct,” he says. “When I first heard these tracks floating around in the house, I said, ‘Why don’t we put these all in one place?’”
Listeners will be captivated as they experience a live instrumental take on Michael Jackson’s haunting ballad, “Stranger in Moscow,” officially released for the first time.
Recorded in 2007 with producer and drummer Narada Michael Walden’s band, it’s a devastating masterclass performance – Santana’s guitar playing is by turns soulful and poetic, blitzing and blinding, and always breathtakingly imaginative.
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