Moonflower (album)


Moonflower is a double album released in 1977 by Santana. The recording features both studio and live tracks, which are interspersed with one another throughout the album. It is perhaps the group's most popular live album, because Lotus did not receive a U.S. domestic release until 1991. It displays a mix between the fusion of Latin and blues-rock styles of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the much more experimental and spiritual jazz fusion sound that characterized the band's mid-1970s work. The live material was recorded during the supporting tour for the Amigos album.
A cover version of the Zombies' mid-1960s hit song "She's Not There" was released as a single and peaked at #27. The song was the first Santana recording to hit the Top 40 of the Billboard charts since "No One to Depend On" reached #36 in 1972. The album reached #10 on the Billboard charts and was eventually certified platinum, neither of which occurred again until the star-studded Supernatural in 1999.

Track listing

All tracks written and composed by Tom Coster and Carlos Santana, except where noted;

Side one

  1. "Dawn/Go Within" – 2:44
  2. "Carnaval" – 2:17
  3. "Let the Children Play" – 2:37
  4. "Jugando" – 2:09
  5. "I'll Be Waiting" – 5:20
  6. "Zulu" – 3:25

    Side two

  7. "Bahia" – 1:37
  8. "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen" – 6:32
  9. "Dance Sister Dance " – 7:45
  10. "Europa " – 6:07

    Side three

  11. "She's Not There" – 4:09
  12. "Flor d'Luna " – 5:01
  13. "Soul Sacrifice/Head, Hands & Feet" – 14:01

    Side four

  14. "El Morocco" – 5:05
  15. "Transcendance" – 5:13
  16. "Savor/Toussaint L'Overture" – 12:56

    Bonus tracks on 2003 reissue

  17. "Black Magic Woman" – 2:37
  18. "I'll Be Waiting" – 3:12
  19. "She's Not There" – 3:19

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