Artist: Carlos Santana
Title Of Album: Borboletta
Release Date: 2005 (1974)
Location: USA
Label: DQ8 Columbia (CAQ-33135)
Genre: Instrumental Guitar Rock, Latin Rock
Quality: DVD-Audio (*iso) [+dts cd]
Length: 49:30 min
Tracks: 12
Total Size: 4.14 GB (+5%)
WebSite: Home Page

Borboletta is the sixth studio album by Santana. It is one of his jazz-funk-fusion oriented albums, along with Caravanserai (1972), Welcome (1973), Love Devotion Surrender (1973) with John McLaughlin and Illuminations (1974) with Alice Coltrane, Jack DeJohnette and Jules Broussard. The guitarist leaves a lot of room to percussion, saxophone and keyboards to set moods ("Spring Manifestations"), as well as lengthy solos by himself ("Promise of a Fisherman") and vocals ("Give and Take", a funky guitar-led song). The record was released in a shiny blue sleeve displaying a butterfly, an allusion to the album Butterfly Dreams (1973) by Brazilian musician Flora Purim and her husband Airto Moreira, whose contributions deeply influenced the sound of Borboletta. In Portuguese, borboleta means "butterfly".




Tracklist:

01. Spring Manifestations [1:05]
02. Canto de los Flores [3:47]
03. Life Is Anew [4:16]
04. Give and Take [5:47]
05. One with the Sun [4:23]
06. Aspirations [5:12]
07. Practice What You Preach[4:32]
08. Mirage [4:43]
09. Here and Now [3:02]
10. Flor de Canela [2:20]
11. Promise of a Fisherman [8:06]
12. Borboletta [2:51]