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FROM: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borboletta
Borboletta is the sixth studio album by Santana. It is one of his jazz-funk-fusion oriented albums, along with Caravanserai (1972), Welcome (1973), Love Devotion Surrender (1973) with John McLaughlin and Illuminations (1974) with Alice Coltrane, Jack DeJohnette and Jules Broussard. The guitarist leaves a lot of room to percussion, saxophone and keyboards to set moods ("Spring Manifestations"), as well as lengthy solos by himself ("Promise of a Fisherman") and vocals ("Give and Take", a funky guitar-led song). The record was released in a shiny blue sleeve displaying a butterfly, an allusion to the album Butterfly Dreams (1973) by Brazilian musician Flora Purim and her husband Airto Moreira, whose contributions deeply influenced the sound of Borboletta. In Portuguese, borboleta means "butterfly".
Original bassist David Brown returned to replace Doug Rauch and vocalist/keyboardist Leon Patillo joined. After the album's completion, drummer Michael Shrieve left, to be replaced by Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, who had guested on parts of the album.
Track listing
Side one
No. Title Lyrics Music Length
1. "Spring Manifestations" instrumental — percussion & sound effects Airto Moreira, Flora Purim 1:05
2. "Canto de los Flores" instrumental Tom Coster & Santana Band 3:45
3. "Life Is Anew" Carlos Santana Carlos Santana, Michael Shrieve 4:30
4. "Give and Take" Carlos Santana Carlos Santana, Tom Coster, Michael Shrieve 5:46
5. "One with the Sun" Earlyrin Martini Jerry Martini 4:20
6. "Aspirations" instrumental Tom Coster, Carlos Santana 5:12
Side two
No. Title Lyrics Music Length
1. "Practice What You Preach" Carlos Santana Carlos Santana 4:28
2. "Mirage" Leon Patillo Leon Patillo 4:43
3. "Here and Now" instrumental Armando Peraza, Carlos Santana 3:01
4. "Flor de Canela" instrumental Carlos Santana, Doug Rauch 2:20
5. "Promise of a Fisherman" instrumental Dorival Caymmi 8:05
6. "Borboletta" instrumental Airto Moreira 2:50