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Caravanserai: Remastered
by: Santana

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 5099751112822
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: October 06, 2003
Studio: Sony
Sales Rank: 11838

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Re-issue not remaster?
This is a great album, my personal Santana favourite. However, there is nothing to suggest on the box that this album has actually been remastered, or that anything has been done to 'buff up' the sound, despite another reviewer's praise for the improved sound quality on this release. Maybe this is just a reissue rather than a remaster. If it were the latter surely that fact would be advertised on the packaging.

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- Not actually re-mastered.
The CD I received was not actually re-mastered. It was the same edition as the indifferent cd pressing I bought 4 years ago. If ever there was an album deserving a good re-master, this is it. It's going back. I believe it is mis-advertised.

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- Masterpiece
I heard "Caravanserai" for the first time in 1973 (the year after it was released), and it immediately became one of my favourite records. Later, I used it as a jumping-off point to go back and forth through the rest of Santana's catalogue, but found that none of their other albums (though pleasant enough) have had the continuous appeal of this one.

With vocals being kept to a minimum, you can appreciate all the details of the breadth of supporting instrumentation on display - Wendy Haas' percussive piano on "La Fuente del Ritmo", Hadley Caliman's breathy sax on "Eternal Caravan of Reincarnation", the uncredited frantic flautist on "Every Step Of The Way": all these players weren't part of the regular band (indeed, were only ... Read More:

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- The High Point
This was Santana at his (and their) absolute peak. A once-off album that transcended everything else he did and took him from rock guitarist to true virtuoso. 'Promise of a Fisherman' on Borboletta was the only time he got close to the brilliance of this again. Magnificent playing from everyone with great respect shown to Tom Jobim on Stone Flower. Perhaps the well documented tensions in the band inspired them. Certainly Neil Schon and Greg Rolie (soon to form the dull Journey) never reached this level elsewhere. This was the moment that people like John McLaughlin took notice and wanted to play with Carlos.

He remains a rarity in that, unlike most musicians from this era he still cuts in live (though not, it must be said ... Read More:

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- Searing beauty
This is an astounding album. It sounds very different from anything else in the Santana canon, largely because it was very much a transitional work, retaining a sense of the psychedelic Latin rock of the first three albums whilst pointing to the fusion direction of later albums like Welcome and Borboletta but not entirely crossing over into jazz. Despite the success of the first 3 albums, by late 1971 Carlos Santana had become disillusioned with the rock n roll lifestyle and its trappings and felt that the music he had been making was no longer what he wanted to do. Clearly, this caused tensions within the band and Caravanserai was recorded with a different line up from the first 3, although Rolie and Shrieve were still present (this was ... Read More:

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