Spirits Dancing in the Flesh
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Spirits Dancing in the Flesh
Spirits Dancing in the Flesh is the sixteenth studio album by Santana. It reached eighty-five in the Billboard 200.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
September 20, 1990. Mystic and materialist, the guitarist has vacillated between playing to the heavens and playing to the gallery. Though rarely willing to craft something devoid of artistic qualities, Santana is also mindful of being a pop star. . . . Happily, both incarnations show up on Spirits Dancing in the Flesh, and they play remarkably well together.
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AllMusic
. . . it was more of a straightforward, guitar-heavy rock album than usual. Coming more than three years after Santana's last new album, Freedom, it sold to the band's core audience only, reaching #85.
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Entertainment
July 6, 1990. Overall, Spirits Dancing in the Flesh remains a better-than-average example of Santana’s work. It’s a mixed bag of sentimentality, propulsive beats, and fluent professionalism; it’s honest music that can sometimes sound numbingly familiar.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
New recruits include Benny Rietveld on bass and Walfredo Reyes on percussion. Lots of guests including Stephen King(!), Jim Gilstrap and Oren Waters. Vernon Reid is listed as a co-producer, but apparently doesn't perform. (DBW)
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The Great Albums
Though Carlos and his band sound perfectly fine here per se, this disc . . is unfortunately one of the band’s most schizophrenic records, . . . . Individually, the tracks sound more or less perfectly fine, but taken together, it’s a bit of a mess.
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