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Shape Shifter is the twenty-second studio album (thirty-sixth album overall) by Santana. It was released on May 14, 2012. This album is the first from his new record label Starfaith Records,[5] which is distributed by Sony Music Entertainment, owners of all of Santana's albums (except those recorded for Polydor Records which are owned by Universal Music Group).[6] It is also the first album since 1992's Milagro that does not feature guest singers in any of the songs, a style that characterized Santana's albums since Supernatural. The album contains only one song with vocals ("Eres La Luz").[7] The track "Mr. Szabo" is a homage to the Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó, one of Carlos Santana's early idols, who released a series of 8 albums for Impulse Records between 1966 and 1967; the track features a similar rhythmical and harmonic structure to "Gypsy Queen", a Szabó recording from 1966 covered by Santana in 1970 as a medley with Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman".

For other uses, see Shapeshifter (disambiguation).
Shape Shifter
Cover art by Rance Hood
Studio album by
Santana
ReleasedMay 14, 2012
GenreRock, Latin rock
Length57:22
LabelStarfaith, Sony[1]
ProducerCarlos Santana, Eric Bazilian, Walter Afanasieff
Santana chronology
Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time
(2010)		 Shape Shifter
(2012)		 Corazón
(2014)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic45/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Classic Rock[3]
Rolling Stone Brasil[4]

Track listing


No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Shape Shifter"Carlos Santana6:16
2."Dom"Hamidou Touré, Ousmane Touré, Ismaila Touré, Tidiane Sixu Touré3:51
3."Nomad"Carlos Santana4:49
4."Metatron"Carlos Santana2:39
5."Angelica Faith"Carlos Santana, Chester Thompson5:03
6."Never the Same Again"Carlos Santana, Eric Bazilian5:01
7."In the Light of a New Day"Carlos Santana, Narada Michael Walden5:06
8."Spark of the Divine"Carlos Santana1:03
9."Macumba in Budapest"Carlos Santana, Walter Afanasieff4:01
10."Mr. Szabo"Carlos Santana6:20
11."Eres La Luz"Carlos Santana, Walter Afanasieff, Andy Vargas, Karl Perazzo4:51
12."Canela"Carlos Santana, Salvador Santana5:22
13."Ah, Sweet Dancer"Micheal O Suilleabhain3:08
Total length:57:22

Personnel



Charts


Chart (2012) Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[8] 29
Canadian Albums Chart[9] 46
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[10] 82
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[11] 27
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[12] 63
French Albums (SNEP)[13] 71
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[14] 19
Hungarian Albums Chart[15] 2
Italian Albums (FIMI)[16] 19
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[17] 75
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[18] 8

Year-end charts


Chart (2012) Position
Hungarian Albums Chart[19] 69

References


  1. Jurek, Thom. "Shape Shifter - Santana | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
  2. "Reviews for Shape Shifter by Santana". Metacritic. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  3. Yates, Henry (July 2012). "Santana - Shape Shifter". Classic Rock. No. 172. p. 99.
  4. Lima, Carlos Eduardo (6 July 2012). "36º disco marca o retorno de Santana ao formato que caracterizou sua carreira". Rolling Stone Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 July 2012.
  5. "Santana's 36th Album, 'Shape Shifter,' Set For May 15 Release". GuitarPlayer. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
  6. "Images for Santana - Shape Shifter". Discogs.
  7. "Interview: Carlos Santana on his new album, Shape Shifter". MusicRadar.com. 2012-04-27. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
  8. "Austriancharts.at – Santana – Shape Shifter" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-10-28. Retrieved 2012-05-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. "Ultratop.be – Santana – Shape Shifter" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  11. "Ultratop.be – Santana – Shape Shifter" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  12. "Dutchcharts.nl – Santana – Shape Shifter" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  13. "Lescharts.com – Santana – Shape Shifter". Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  14. "Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  15. "MAHASZ – Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége". mahasz.hu. Retrieved 2012-06-21.
  16. "Italiancharts.com – Santana – Shape Shifter". Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  17. "Spanishcharts.com – Santana – Shape Shifter". Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  18. "Swisscharts.com – Santana – Shape Shifter". Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  19. "Best selling albums of Hungary in 2012". Mahasz. Retrieved February 7, 2012.



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