- rock, latin rock, latin, hard rock
- 37 min
- 9 tracks
- Columbia
Abraxas is the second studio album by the American rock band Santana. It was released on September 23, 1970, by Columbia Records and became the band's first album to top the Billboard 200 in the United States. In 2020, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album number 334 on its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
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Character
Grave, earnest, character-led and spare.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
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- AllMusic5/5 ★
- Christgau's Record GuideC+
- Rolling Stone(favorable)
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide5/5 ★
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music5/5 ★
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Tracks
- A1Singing Winds, Crying Beasts4:54
- A2Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen5:17
- A3Oye como va4:17
- A4Incident at Neshabur4:60
- B1Se a cabo2:52
- B2Mother’s Daughter4:28
- B3Samba pa ti4:48
- B4Hope You’re Feeling Better4:18
- B5El Nicoya1:31
9 tracks, 37 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Santana
- Label
- Columbia
- Released
- 1970
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Reel-to-reel
- Country
- US
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