The set includes masterful collaborations with Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Miles Davis, Paolo Rustichelli, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and Cindy Blackman Santana Santana's "Sentient version" of Smokey Robinson "Please Don't Take Your Love," out today, Friday, Feb. 21
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Multi-Grammy Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Carlos Santana has announced that his passion-filled retrospective album, Sentient, will be released via Candid Records on March 28. The album is available for pre-order now. The record's heavenly, soulful first single – a "Sentient version" of Smokey Robinson's "Please Don't Take Your Love" – is out TODAY.
Listen to "Please Don't Take Your Love" Here
Sentient is composed of 11 dazzling tracks – three of them previously unreleased – compiled by the virtuoso guitarist, remastered and sequenced in a way that allows a new and dramatic story to emerge. As is often the case when the spark of musical magic strikes, Santana was surprised, delighted and receptive. "I'm always driven by passion, emotion and inner instinct," he says. "When I first heard these tracks floating around in the house, I said, 'Why don't we put these all in one place?'"
The songs that make up Sentient are complex compositionally, but they float by like a dream. There are brilliant collaborations with Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Miles Davis, Paolo Rustichelli, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and Cindy Blackman Santana, but no matter the mood or genre – whether it's lush pop or high-intensity cosmic jazz – it's all part of a common thread. As Santana says, "From Stravinsky to James Brown, it's all the same song, meaning it's all connected to the umbilical cord of humanity and planet Earth."
The album's first single offers listeners a new view of "Please Don't Take Your Love," the heavenly slice of funky, soulful seduction that paired Santana with the incomparable Smokey Robinson. The original version, featured on Robinson's 2009 album, Time Flies When You're Having Fun, saw Santana contrast Robinson's shimmering vibrato with searing, soul-shaking soloing. The alternate take on Sentient is no less emotionally wrenching, but as Santana notes, it boasts a never-before-heard guitar performance. "I went to the studio and did my own thing. I said, 'Let's just roll it.' I did another take with Smokey sort of guiding me. Smokey loved them both, so he wound up combining the two. What's on Sentient is the first version."
March 14th will see the debut release of a live instrumental cover of Michael Jackson's haunting ballad "Stranger in Moscow," recorded in 2007 with producer and drummer Narada Michael Walden's band. It's a devastating masterclass performance – Santana's guitar playing is by turns soulful and poetic, blitzing and blinding, and always breathtakingly imaginative.
"Narada knew that I loved the song, so he arranged it with his band," Santana remembers. "I showed up and we played it with no rehearsal. I'm basically singing it with my guitar. I'm visualizing Michael Jackson and what he would do – I got pretty close. I think when Michael listened to it, wherever he is, he smiled and said, 'Yeah, that's it.'"
"Get On," a jazz-groove masterpiece from renowned composer Paolo Rustichelli's lauded 1996 album Mystic Man, featuring the extraordinary collaboration of Santana with the iconic Miles Davis, will be officially released to radio for the first time on March 17.
Exceleration Music partner and Grammy-winning music executive John Burk, known for his work with legendary artists, shared his excitement about the project, "Santana has always been a trailblazer in music, combining musical styles and cultures in ways that have forever changed the face of music. This amazing collection demonstrates his unique ability to transcend genres and lift our spirits through his music. It also highlights collaborations with a diverse lineup of musical trailblazers—including Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Smokey Robinson, and DMC - each, like Carlos, an iconic innovator, united on this album by the musicality, spirit, and passion of Carlos Santana at his finest."
Santana's Oneness tour kicks off in Highland, CA, at Yaamava' Resort & Casino at San Manuel on April 16 making stops in Phoenix, AZ; Albuquerque, NM; San Antonio, TX; Sugar Land, TX; Thackerville, OK; Tulsa, OK; and Nashville, TN. The Europe and UK portion of the tour begins on June 9 in Lodz, Poland with stops throughout Europe and the UK, ending in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 11. Full tour dates are below.
Tickets will be available starting with a fan presale beginning on Wednesday, December 11 at Santana.com. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on sale beginning on Friday, December 13 at 10am local time at Santana.com.
The tour will also offer a variety of different VIP packages and experiences for fans to take their concert experience to the next level. Packages vary but include premium tickets, exclusive merchandise item & collectible laminate.
2025 Oneness Tour North American Dates:
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - Highland, CA - Yaamava' Resort & Casino at San Manuel
Friday, April 18, 2025 - Phoenix, AZ - Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
Saturday, April 19, 2025 - Albuquerque, NM - Isleta Amphitheater
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - San Antonio, TX - Majestic Theatre
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - Sugar Land, TX - Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land
Friday, April 25, 2025 - Thackerville, OK - Lucas Oil Live at WinStar
Saturday, April 26, 2025 - Tulsa, OK - River Spirit Casino Resort *ON SALE 2/18/25
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 - Nashville, TN - The Pinnacle
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - New Orleans, LA - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival @Jazz Fest
2025 House of Blues Las Vegas Residency Dates:
Wednesday, May 14 – Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues Las Vegas
Thursday, May 15 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues Las Vegas
Saturday, May 17 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues Las Vegas
Sunday, May 18 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues Las Vegas
Wednesday, May 21 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues Las Vegas
Thursday, May 22 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues Las Vegas
Saturday, May 24 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues Las Vegas
Sunday, May 25 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues Las Vegas
2025 Oneness Tour Europe & UK Dates:
Monday, June 9, 2025 - Lodz, Poland - Atlas Arena
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - Budapest, Hungary - MVM Dome *ON SALE 2/13/25 AT 1PM
Friday, June 13, 2025 - Berlin, Germany - Uber Arena
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - Hamburg, Germany - Barclays Arena
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - Glasgow, UK - OVO Hydro
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - Manchester, UK - Co-op Live
Saturday, June 21, 2025 - London, UK - The O2
Monday, June 23, 2025 - Paris, France - Accor Arena Paris
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Ziggo Dome
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - Antwerp, Belgium - Sportpaleis
Saturday, June 28, 2025 - Zurich, Switzerland - Hallenstadion Zürich *ON SALE 4/11/25
Monday, June 30, 2025 - Vienna, Austria - Wiener Stadthalle
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - Mantua, Italy - Piazza Sordello – Mantova
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - Rosenheim, Germany - ROSENHEIM SOMMERFESTIVAL 2025, Mangfall Park
Friday, July 18, 2025 - Montreux, Switzerland - Montreux Jazz Festival
Saturday, July 19, 2025 - St. Julien, France - Guitare en Scène *ON SALE 12/19/25
Monday, July 21, 2025 - Nimes, France - Festival de Nîmes
Wednesday, July 23, 2025 - Monte-Carlo, Monte-Carlo Summer Festival *ON SALE 12/18/25
Friday, July 25, 2025 - Marciac, France - Jazz à Marciac Festival
Sunday, August 3, 2025 - Marbella, Spain - Starlite Occident Festival
Friday, August 8, 2025 - Cologne, Germany - Lanxess Arena
Saturday, August 9, 2025 - Hanover, Germany - ZAG Arena
Monday, August 11, 2025 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Royal Arena
About Carlos Santana
For more than five decades - from Santana's earliest days as a groundbreaking Afro-Latin-blues-rock fusion outfit in San Francisco - Carlos Santana has been the visionary force behind artistry that transcends musical genres and generational, cultural, and geographical boundaries. To date, Santana has won ten GRAMMY Awards and three Latin GRAMMY Awards, with a record-tying nine GRAMMY Awards for a single project for 1999's Supernatural (including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for "Smooth"). He has received the Billboard Century Award (1996), was ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1998), received the Billboard Latin Music Awards' Lifetime Achievement honor (2009), and was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors Award (2013).
Among many other distinctions, Carlos Santana has been cited by Rolling Stone as #11 on their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time;" and has joined the Rolling Stones as one of only two bands to have an album reach the Top 10 in every decade since the 1960s. In 2018, he released his first MasterClass, and celebrated two epic milestones: the 50th anniversary of his legendary performance at Woodstock, and the 50th anniversary of his masterpiece Abraxas.
In 2024, he celebrated the 25th anniversary of his groundbreaking album Supernatural. Santana's most recent release, "Let The Guitar Play" (feat. Darryl "DMC" McDaniels), follows on the heels of his powerful, energy-infused Blessings and Miracles (2021) that features collaborations with Rob Thomas, Chris Stapleton, Steve Winwood, and many others. The epic feature documentary CARLOS, produced by Sony Music Entertainment and Imagine Documentaries, is a celebration of Carlos Santana's life and career. It had its World Premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival and is now available to stream worldwide. Santana has been in residency in Las Vegas for over 15 years and will continue to perform at House of Blues Las Vegas, where he recently celebrated his 10th anniversary in the intimate venue.
About Candid Records
Between 1960 - 1963 founder, A&R man, and producer Nat Hentoff recorded over 30 extraordinary albums for the new Candid Records label. One cannot underestimate the breadth of these recordings - from bebop to the avant-garde, to blues. Candid sat dormant for years until Black Lion Records founder and producer, Alan Bates, bought the label in 1989. The next phase of Candid Records is happening now. Since its relaunch in 2021, with these new phases of recordings, the label has reissued over 28 titles to high critical acclaim. Thanks to brilliant new releases has received five GRAMMY® awards – 2024 winners the Count Basie Orchestra, 2023 winners Terri Lyne Carrington and Wayne Shorter and 2022's multiple GRAMMY® winner Eliane Elias. Today's Candid is not only committed to its legacy but looks forward to defining its future with the quality music that is synonymous with its elite heritage. Learn more at www.candidrecords.com
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