SANTANA — Borboletta (review)

SANTANA — Borboletta album cover Album · 1974 · Fusion Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
Drawing inspiration from the fusion work of Flora Purim and Airto Moreira, who were a key component of the original Return to Forever lineup as well as contributing to Santana's previous album Welcome. When you add guest appearances from Purim, Moreira and Stanley Clarke on this album, that goes some way to explain why it sometimes sounds like Santana's take on Return to Forever's first two albums. The result is an interesting enough album, but it seems to constantly hover between plunging into the Latin-tinged fusion it outlines on the one hand and moving back towards a more mainstream sound on the other.
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