MINT SHRINK 1970 "OG" SANTANA = ABRAXAS + POSTER BLACK MAGIC WOMAN SF PSYCH

$

70

                     
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            PERCUSSION BATTLES & HEATED JAMS!

                   1970 PRESS LP ~ + BIG POSTER!

                 SANTANA

                  ABRAXAS
                                  

                 USA - Columbia Records - KC 30130   

           final collection copy ... stone mint ...in factory shrink wrap    

 the Hippies "Summer Of Love"  ... 50th year anniversary listings ...                  

       SANTANA ... ABRAXAS

"MINT CLEAN" 1970 COLLECTIBLE in thick gatefold cover + LARGE POSTER!

        STILL IN ORIGINAL FACTORY CELLOPHANE

               .....................     EXCELLENT !   ...........................

hard to find this LP in shrink wrap with the thick gatefold cover and all...in fact, the back cover is near impossible to find without wear - here is THAT survivor - no wear on back cover

UNCENSORED ...most copies have a custom sticker blocking out certain areas of the naked female on front cover

Featuring the great hits "Black Magic Woman", "Hope You're Feeling Better" and "Oye Como Va" and::::

includes the giant SANTANA poster ...

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1970 SANTANA "ABRAXAS" ... Excellent continuation of the first album, with songwriting credits to four of the six band members, plus a terrific version of Tito Puentes's "Oye Como Va." The hit was a cover of the Fleetwood Mac song "Black Magic Woman."

Santana were the pioneers of the trance-like Latin-infused psychrock sounds which meshed nicely with the hippie-rock bands in San Francisco. Their polyrhythmic stew combined with Carlos Santana's intense Bolero-like guitar soloing made them heroes to the progressives of every race in the late sixties and early seventies. Abraxas, their second album, was where they really came into their own -- the percussive forays, hypnotic guitar, and Latin rhythms inaugurated on their debut were driven to new heights by an expanded rhythm section and more focused songwriting. Santana, who were an oddity in 1969, became popular with Abraxas and brought the simmering sounds of the Latin ghetto into the mainstream. But along with it, they also carried hints of very professional-styled white rock, mostly courtesy of keyboardist Greg Rolie, who wrote the more conventional rock ballads like "Mother's Daughter" and "Hope You're Feeling Better." This gave Santana the proper mix of ethnic influences to be successful on virtually every level -- both as a pop-rock success and as progressive innovators.

Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen
El Nicoya
Hope You're Feeling Better
Incident at Neshabur
Mother's Daughter
Oye Como Va
Samba Pa Ti
Se a Cabo
Singing Winds, Crying Beasts

CONDITION: The cover: housed in thick gatefold, almost never seen still in factory shrink wrapper without custom sticker covering the female on front cover, rated: MINT  very colorful and minty clean ... all the seams and everything is tight and bright, solid sharp Collectible! Original  price sticker on outer cellophane back cover

The vinyl: is all glossy on both sides rated:  M- plays strong and enjoyable = CLEAN Columbia labels ...TOP LEVEL... 

the poster is MINT