Borboletta
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Borboletta
Borboletta is the sixth studio album by the American Latin rock band Santana. It is one of their jazz-funk-fusion oriented albums, along with Caravanserai (1972), and Welcome (1973).-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
December 20, 1978. As Carlos Santana evolves musically and spiritually — for the time being the two paths seem to be one — he chooses his associates more carefully. . . . Borboletta and Illuminations are noteworthy for their rhythm sections.
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AllMusic
. . . the Santana sound had long since taken over from any individual composition, and the records were starting to sound alike. That, in turn, started to make them inessential; Borboletta spent less time on the charts than any previous Santana album.
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Jazz Music Archives
While the former album blazed a glorious trail by creating exhilarating combinations of Latin jazz and rock and is now considered one of the greatest ever in that genre, the latter LP was as bland and lifeless as a dead buzzard decomposing on an arid desert floor.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
Halfway between the great rock records of the early 70s and the crappy AM records of the late 70s. There are still a few driving tracks recalling the Abraxas period ("Give And Take"), while a mellow Latin jazz flavor pervades tunes like the instrumental "Canto De Los Flores" (featuring an uncredited flautist) and the AM fluff "Life Is Anew."(DBW)
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The Punk Panther's Music Reviews
January 27, 2019. The album is actually quite upbeat at times, far more than 1972's "Caravanserai" and 1973's experimental, often intense "Welcome". It is still full of extremely influential material, despite its supposedly laid-back reputation.
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George Starostin's Reviews
Neither Carlos nor the rest of the band members don't offer us anything particularly new here, but there are no serious offenders either. You just get what you expected: a ramshackle collection of slightly Latin-tinged dance numbers, all seriously peppered with Carlos' smashing leads and the band's generic backing vocals.
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Robert Christgau
Old Santana fans beware. Ad copy to the contrary, the only Latin roots here flowered in Brazil long 'round '66. Airto Moreira isn't Sergio Mendes, I admit, but Leon Patillo isn't Leon Thomas either.
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The Great Albums
. . . the disc as a whole does make a very intriguing album piece and tends to be very underrated. Jazz buffs should be especially intrigued by the disc, which sports several appearances from Flora Purim, former Weather Report and Return to Forever drummer/percussionist Airto Moreira, and legendary jazz bassist Stanley Clarke.
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