Lotus

Disc 1
1	Going Home 3:23
2	A-1 Funk 3:13
3	Every Step of the Way 11:30
4	Black Magic Woman 3:38
5	Gypsy Queen 3:57
6	Oye Como Va 5:47
7	Yours Is the Light 5:30
8	Batuka 0:55
9	Xibaba (She-Ba-Ba) 4:13
10	Stone Flower (Introduction) 1:14
11	Waiting 4:14
12	Castillos de Arena, Pt. 1 (Sand Castle) 2:51
13	Free Angela 4:26
14	Samba de Sausalito 4:02
Disc 2
1	Mantra 7:17
2	Kyoto 9:58
3	Castillos de Arena, Pt. 2 (Sand Castle) 1:13
4	Incident at Neshabur 15:57
5	Se a Cabó 5:39
6	Samba Pa Ti 8:56
7	Mr. Udo 3:07
8	Toussaint l'Overture 7:40

Barnes & Noble

Much jazz-rock fusion failed in the '70s because it was made by jazz musicians attempting to find the key to rock 'and' roll's vast popularity. Carlos Santana, however, was a rock musician with the soul of a jazzman. By the time this double CD was recorded live in Japan in 1973, he had created a true jazz-rock fusion -- with an effervescent Latin groove that updated {|Willie Bobo|} and a virtuosic style of improvising on guitar that often achieved a John Coltrane level of intensity. This great lost fusion album took more than 15 years to be released in America, but with vocal help from Leon Thomas, an arrangement by Alice Coltrane, a smashing set of tunes (including Chick Corea's "Castillos de Arena" and a roof-raising jam that includes renditions of Santana signatures "Black Magic Woman" and "Oye Como Va"), and a skin tight rhythm section at its peak, LOTUS gives jazz-rock, or rock-jazz, a good name. Lee Jeske

All Music Guide

Recorded in Japan in July 1973, this massive live album, originally on three LPs and now on two compact discs, was available outside the United States in 1974 but held back from domestic release until long into the CD age. It features the same "New Santana Band" that recorded Welcome, and combines that group's jazz and spiritual influences with performances of earlier Latin rock favorites like "Oye Como Va." William Ruhlmann