Carlos Santana on his joyous new 'Africa Speaks' LP, summer tour and the legacy of Woodstock
and the 50th anniversary of Woodstock. “We’re going to bring a lot of fury and fire,” he says of his shows. “Most of the time, we play close to two-and-a-half to three hours, so we’re going to honor yesterday, today, and tomorrow.”Despite the marathon sets, though, he says, “Music never drains me or exhausts me.” By his own estimation, he was able to maintain Herculean energy reserves in the Seventies by buckling down and meditating with a guru when all his rocker friends were out partying.
I think the tone in my guitar at first scared me because it sounded so piercing like sharp claws and teeth with ferociousness. But everything was done in one take except for two or three songs. Everything happened very natural and normal and, again, very supernatural. This music is like witnessing shamans from Siberia or aborigines or American Indians create a ritual spell. That’s the way it happened really.Like everybody else, I surf for new music from Africa online and she showed up.
“Breaking Down the Door” is an interpretation of “Abatina,” which Manu Chao wrote for Calypso Rose. Have you heard what Manu thinks of this one? I think it was Jim Morrison who said, “We want the world and we want it now,” but we want the world with peace, harmony, and unity. We want that world. That’s why we’re still talking about the original one. I think there’s something sacred about not playing to be famous or be rich but to play music. Like, there was nothing to eat other than granola.
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