wolbai
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To me Caravanserai is the best album of the original Santana band. The original band consist of members like Gregg Rolie and Neal Schon which later founded the band Journey. And there are various storys all around the title "Song Of The Wind". Every time I discover one of those stories it is thrilling to me. I have attached one I found in a Santana song book.
And I consider "Song Of The Wind" as the most beautiful (unknown) song Carlos Santana ever played: it is unbelievable how he geniously celebrates melodical improvisation at its best over a simple two chord progression (Fmaj7 + Cmaj7) for six minutes. To me it is like I am spilled over with lots of colours and positiv energy. This may sound a bit strange to you ... but that is what makes my heart wide open :icon_biggrin:
The band plays perfect as well: a very tight woven rhythmical sound carpet. He perfectly knows how to catch the listeners recognition with repetitive licks and variations.
I almost can feel CS desire for spiritual satisfaction (again: this may sound a bit strange to you ...) which he tried to realize, after the Santana band did disperse like leaves in the wind.
It was very exiciting for me, whether I would be able to improvise six minutes over a two chord progression without sounding boring. That was a real challenge and a very good improvisation exercise as well.
The following recording is what I call "A one take"-recording. With the excepation of few signature licks from the original, it is an improvisation (in the style of CS mixed with my own flavour). It is always the same with good improvisations to me: there is a special point (in this case after 20-30 takes) where it is just flowing ...
So please be not too merciless with me, because finally there are six long minutes which has to be filled with a built up of suspense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oJQr3eOnGo
I appreciated any kind of your feedback :icon_thumright:
wolbai
And I consider "Song Of The Wind" as the most beautiful (unknown) song Carlos Santana ever played: it is unbelievable how he geniously celebrates melodical improvisation at its best over a simple two chord progression (Fmaj7 + Cmaj7) for six minutes. To me it is like I am spilled over with lots of colours and positiv energy. This may sound a bit strange to you ... but that is what makes my heart wide open :icon_biggrin:
The band plays perfect as well: a very tight woven rhythmical sound carpet. He perfectly knows how to catch the listeners recognition with repetitive licks and variations.
I almost can feel CS desire for spiritual satisfaction (again: this may sound a bit strange to you ...) which he tried to realize, after the Santana band did disperse like leaves in the wind.
It was very exiciting for me, whether I would be able to improvise six minutes over a two chord progression without sounding boring. That was a real challenge and a very good improvisation exercise as well.
The following recording is what I call "A one take"-recording. With the excepation of few signature licks from the original, it is an improvisation (in the style of CS mixed with my own flavour). It is always the same with good improvisations to me: there is a special point (in this case after 20-30 takes) where it is just flowing ...
So please be not too merciless with me, because finally there are six long minutes which has to be filled with a built up of suspense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oJQr3eOnGo
I appreciated any kind of your feedback :icon_thumright:
wolbai
. I somewhere also read that the initial part was done by Neal, the middle part by Carlos and the Outro by Neal again. That's even more amazing to me, because this songs sounds so completely rounded. (Any further infos in that context from forum members is welcome).
