''In Search of Mona Lisa'' is an EP by

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released on January 25, 2019, on Concord Records. A music video for the EP's first single, "Do You Remember Me", was released on January 24, 2019. Santana has announced plans to release a new full-length album, produced by Rick Rubin, scheduled for mid-2019, with the EP serving as a preamble.

Origins

The album takes its title from a deeply personal experience that

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had when he visited the

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in Paris for the first time and saw

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's masterpiece, ''

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''. The artist explains to ''Rolling Stone'' that although he had been playing concerts in Paris since the early Seventies, he had never visited the Louvre until 2016. And once he did, he noticed a line like "you'd see for Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Rihanna or Adele... I was like, 'Damn, ''Mona Lisa's'' really popular worldwide to this day.'" Described as "dramatic", as well as "spellbinding and transportive", the album stems from recollections of a dream that Carlos Santana had months after his experience seeing the iconic work of art.

Track listing

Personnel

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* Cindy Blackman Santana - drums (tracks #1, 3) * Tommy Anthony - guitar (#1) * Benny Rietveld - bass guitar (#1) * Ray Greene - vocals (#1) * Andy Vargas - vocals (#1) * David K. Matthews - keyboards (#1) * Karl Perazzo - congas, percussion & timbales (#1) *

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- bass (#2), drums (#2, 3), keyboards (#2, 3), vocals (#3) * Jim Reitzel - guitar (#2) * Cornell C.C Carter - vocals (#2) * Ron Carter - bass (#3) * Justus Dobrin - keyboard programming (#3)

References

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