SANTANA - Milagro (1992) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Santana signed to Polydor in 1991 after 22 years with Columbia Records. On this label debut album, the band has been altered by official addition of frequent sideman Raul Rekow and Karl Perazzols, replacement of longtime percussionist Armando Peraza. But this septet is still led by Carlos Santana and keyboardist Chester Thompson, with Alex Ligertwood singing. The record has a somewhat elegiac tone, beginning with a stage introduction by the late promoter Bill Graham, who was Santana's mentor and unofficial manager, being dedicated to Graham and Miles Davis, who also had died since the last album, and featuring an excerpt from a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., solos taken from Davis and John Coltrane, and music written by Bob Marley, Coltrane, and Gil Evans. Despite the presence of all these heroic ghosts, however, Milagro is only an average Santana release, familiar-sounding but undistinguished, and it failed to arrest the band's commercial slide, becoming the first new Santana studio album not to crack the Top 100. by William Ruhlmann
Tracklist :
1    Milagro 7:34
Voice [Introduction] – Bill Graham
Written-By – Bob Marley, Carlos Santana
2    Somewhere In Heaven 9:26
Written-By – Alex Ligertwood, Carlos Santana
3    Saja/Right On 8:51
Written-By – Earl DeRouen, Joe Roccisano, Marvin Gaye
4    Your Touch 6:34
Written-By – Carlos Santana, Chester Thompson
5    Life Is For Living 4:39
Written-By – Pat Sefolosha
6    Red Prophet 5:35
Arranged By, Written-By – Benny Rietveld
Mixed By – Devon Rietveld
7    Agua Que Va Caer 4:22
Arranged By [Horns] – Wayne Wallace
Written-By – Carlos "Patato" Valdes, Eugenio Arango
8    Make Somebody Happy 4:14
Written-By – Alex Ligertwood, Carlos Santana
9    Free All The People (South Africa) 6:04
Written-By – Jackie Holmes
10    Gypsy/Grajonca 7:09
Written-By – Carlos Santana, Chester Thompson
11    We Don't Have To Wait 4:34
Written-By – Armando Peraza, Carlos Santana, Chester Thompson
12    A Dios 1:21
Written-By – Carlos Santana, Gil Evans, John Coltrane
Credits :
Acoustic Guitar – Jorge Santana (pistas: 3)
Bass – Benny Rietveld
Chorus – Bad River Singers (pistas: 7)
Congas, Percussion, Vocals – Raul Rekow
Drums – Billy Johnson (pistas: 3, 4)
Drums, Percussion – Walfredo Reyes
Lead Vocals – Larry Graham (pistas: 3)
Piano – Rebeca Mauleón (pistas: 7)
Producer, Arranged By, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Percussion – Carlos Santana
Producer, Arranged By, Keyboards, Backing Vocals – Chester Thompson
Programmed By [Strings] – John Philip Shenale
Saxophone – Melecio Magdaluyo (pistas: 1, 7, 9)
Tenor Saxophone [Solo] – John Coltrane (pistas: 12)
Timbales, Bajo Quinto, Bongos, Vocals – Karl Perazzo
Trombone – Wayne Wallace (pistas: 1, 7, 9)
Trumpet – William Ortiz (pistas: 1, 7, 9), Robert Kwock (pistas: 1, 7, 9)
Trumpet [Solo] – Miles Davis (pistas: 12)
Vocals – Alex Ligertwood (pistas: 2), Linda Tillery (pistas: 6), Lygeia Ferragalo (pistas: 6), Tony Lindsay (pistas: 5, 8)