Festival (Santana album)
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''Festivál'' is the eighth studio album by Santana, released in January 1977. It peaked number twenty seven in the ''Billboard'' 200 chart and number twenty nine in the R&B Albums chart.


Track listing


Side one

# "Carnaval" (
Tom Coster Tom Coster (born August 21, 1941) is an American keyboardist, composer, and longtime backing musician for Carlos Santana. Early years Detroit-born and San Francisco-raised, Coster played piano and accordion as a youth, continuing his studies ...
, Carlos Santana)
– 2:15 # "Let the Children Play" (
Leon Patillo Leon Norman Patillo (born January 1, 1947) is an American contemporary Christian singer, keyboardist, and evangelist. Career Patillo's first musical endeavor was with the group Creation, later called Leon's Creation. Formed in the late 1960s, C ...
, Santana)
– 3:28 # "Jugando" (
José Areas José Octavio "Chepito" Areas Dávila (born 25 July 1946) is a Nicaraguan percussionist best known for having played timbales and Conga drums in the Latin rock group Santana in 1969–1977 and 1987–1989. In 1998, he was inducted into the Roc ...
, Santana)
– 2:12 # "Give Me Love" (Pablo Téllez) – 4:29 # "Verão Vermelho" (Nonato Buzar) – 5:00 # "Let the Music Set You Free" (Coster, Patillo,
David Rubinson David Rubinson (born August 7, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York)Internet Movie DatabaseMini-Biography of David Rubinson Retrieved 2012-06-05.as of 2017 it's 1962? is an American recording engineer and music producer, who was particularly involved in music ...
, Santana)
– 3:39


Side two

# "Revelations" (Coster, Santana) – 4:37 # "Reach Up" (Coster,
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, Patillo, Santana)
– 5:23 # "The River" (Patillo, Santana) – 4:53 # "Try a Little Harder" (Patillo) – 5:04 # "María Caracóles" (Pello el Afrokán - credited "P. African") – 4:32


Personnel

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– vocals, background vocals * Maxine Willard Waters – vocals, background vocals * Francisco Zavala – vocals, background vocals * Carlos Santana
guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...
, bass, percussion, vocals, background vocals *
Leon Patillo Leon Norman Patillo (born January 1, 1947) is an American contemporary Christian singer, keyboardist, and evangelist. Career Patillo's first musical endeavor was with the group Creation, later called Leon's Creation. Formed in the late 1960s, C ...
– keyboards, percussion,
piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...
, vocals, background vocals *
Tom Coster Tom Coster (born August 21, 1941) is an American keyboardist, composer, and longtime backing musician for Carlos Santana. Early years Detroit-born and San Francisco-raised, Coster played piano and accordion as a youth, continuing his studies ...
keyboards, percussion, synthesizer, vocals * Pablo Téllez – bass, percussion, vocals, background vocals *
Paul Jackson Paul Jackson may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Paul Jackson (bassist) (1947–2021), American jazz fusion bassist * Paul Jackson Jr. (born 1959), American jazz fusion guitarist * Paul Jackson (poker player), English professional poker player ...
bass * Gaylord Birchdrums, percussion, tympani * José "Chepitó" Areas – conga,
percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...
,
timbales Timbales () or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing. They are shallower than single-headed tom-toms and usually tuned much higher, especially for their size.Orovio, Helio 1981. ''Diccionario de la música cubana: biográfico ...
* Raul Rekow – conga, percussion, background vocals * Joel Badie – percussion, vocals,
background vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...
* Julia Waters – background vocals Production: * Fred Catero – engineer *
David Rubinson David Rubinson (born August 7, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York)Internet Movie DatabaseMini-Biography of David Rubinson Retrieved 2012-06-05.as of 2017 it's 1962? is an American recording engineer and music producer, who was particularly involved in music ...
– engineer, producer


Charts


Certifications


References

Santana (band) albums 1977 albums Albums produced by Dave Rubinson Columbia Records albums Albums recorded at Wally Heider Studios {{1970s-rock-album-stub