Caravanserai
by Santana
- Type: Album
- Released: October 11, 1972
- Label: Columbia
- Country: United States
- Length: 25:06
- Community rating: 5/5 from 5 ratings
Artists on this release: Gregg Rolie, Neal Schon, Michael Shrieve, José 'Chepito' Areas
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A major artistic turning point for Santana, this album marked a decisive shift away from concise rock anthems towards a more instrumental, improvisational, and jazz-influenced direction. The music is atmospheric, spiritual, and deeply textured, blending Latin percussion with soaring, lyrical guitar solos and a new focus on mood and collective interplay. It's a masterpiece of the early jazz-rock movement.
Genres
Descriptors: guitars, classic, fusion, spirituality, guitar-driven, ambitious, profound
Tracklist
- Eternal Caravan of Reincarnation (4:28)
- Waves Within (3:54)
- Look Up (to See What's Coming Down) (3:00)
- Song of the Wind (6:04)
- All the Love of the Universe (7:40)
Credits
- Santana - primary artist
- Thomas Rutley - acoustic bass, written-by [authors]
- Joan Chase - artwork [album art], design/illustration
- Doug Rauch - bass, guitar, written-by [authors]
- Armando Peraza - bongos, percussion
- José "Chepito" Areas - bongos, congas, timbales, written-by [authors]
- Mingo Lewis - bongos, congas, percussion, piano [acoustic], vocals, written-by [authors], written-by [author]
- Lenny White - castanets
- Michael Shrieve - drums, producer [producers], written-by [authors], music by [additional music], words by, written-by [author], producer
- Tom Coster - electric piano
- Glen Kolotkin - engineer [engineers], engineer
- Mike Larner - engineer [engineers], engineer
- Carlos Santana - guitar, lead guitar, percussion, producer [producers], vocals, written-by [authors], words by, producer
- Doug Rodrigues - guitar
- Neal Schon - guitar, written-by [authors]
- Paramahansa Yogananda - liner notes [from "metaphysical meditations"], liner notes
- Gregg Rolie - organ, piano, written-by [authors]
- Wendy Haas - piano
- Rico Reyes - vocals
- Hadley Caliman - saxophone [saxophone introduction]
- Antonio Carlos Jobim - written-by [author]
- Tom Harrell - arranged by [orchestra]