Shape Shifter (album)

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Shape Shifter
Santana Shape Shifter.jpg
Cover art by Rance Hood
Studio album by
Santana
ReleasedMay 14, 2012
Genre Latin rock
Length57:22
Label Starfaith, Sony [1]
Producer Carlos 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
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Metacritic 45/100 [2]
Review scores
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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".

Contents

Track listing

All tracks were written by Carlos Santana, except where noted.

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

Personnel

Charts

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