Ceremony: Remixes & Rarities

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艺人: Santana
语种: 英语
厂牌: Arista Nashville
发行时间: 2003年12月16日
专辑类别: 精选集

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Ceremony: Remixes and Rarities is a 2003 compilation by Santana.

If you remember the early days of Santana -- the guitarist and the band -- then you may have mixed feelings about some of Carlos' renaissance work, especially a disc like this. Santana at Woodstock, Abraxas, &Black Magic Woman& -- maybe not a world away, but certainly a full career away. With his latter-day work, the Mexican-born axeman has gone more for the pop shots and employed a revolving-door policy of guest-star lead singers. And yes, the charts have smiled on him. This album is a decent clue as to why, but whether the gifted guitarist really needed to put out a set of remixes and &rarities& is open to debate. The material here derives from the sessions that yielded Santana's deuce of comeback discs, 1999's mega-platinum Supernatural and 2000's multi-platinum Shaman. From the former, &Smooth& and &Maria Maria& have been remixed and &Primavera& re-recorded, with vocals by new-generation salsa star Jerry Rivera. From the latter, &Foo Foo& scored a remix, while a new version of &Why Don't You and I& finds Alex Band of the Calling taking over the singing role originally filled by Nickelback's Chad Kroeger. The Shaman album cut &Victory Is Won& has also been tacked on. The new material includes the breezy -- but overly long -- acoustic number &Mañana&; the vivacious, brass-garnished &Truth Don Die&; the album-worthy romance dance of &Let Me Love You Tonight&; the ethereal &Curación (Sunlight on Water)&; and the vocal/guitar weave of the spicy &Come to My World.& There's nothing wrong with the quality here, per se, but whether it really adds anything to the Santana legacy is highly questionable. For example, the multi-chart hit &Smooth,& served up here as a dance remix, is totally a take-it-or-leave-it affair. Whether or not one is of the mind that this album is a little superfluous -- even exploitative -- there's always that mystical guitar work: filling here, leading there, masterful and captivating. It's the signature instrument of Latin rock. That alone is always worth the price of admission.

Ceremony: Remixes & Rarities

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