Santana - Festival • CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

With Amigos, his last LP, Carlos Santana began rebuilding his status as a pop musician, a status he lost with the admirable—but spotty and often inaccessible—Caravanserai; Love, Devotion and Surrender; and Borboletta. Yet on Festivál he may have embraced the mainstream a mite too much. Though this record is far stronger on the whole than Amigos, it lacks that album's memorable chordal quirks and peaks of intensity, sometimes sounding like a prisoner of its own commercial aspirations. Festivál's up cuts, like "Mariá Caracóles," "Let the Music Set You Free," "Reach Up," "Let the Children Play" and "Jugando," all set
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