The March 28 release includes collaborations with Smokey Robinson, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, and the late Miles Davis and Michael Jackson. One of the new tracks is a different version of Santana's 2009 song with Robinson, "Please Don't Take Your Love," which focuses more on the guitarist here. (UCR)
The March 28 release includes collaborations with Smokey Robinson, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, and the late Miles Davis and Michael Jackson. One of the new tracks is a different version of Santana's 2009 song with Robinson, "Please Don't Take Your Love," which focuses more on the guitarist here.
"I went to the studio and did my own thing," Santana notes in a press release announcing the album. "I said, 'Let's just roll it.' I did another take with Smokey, sort of guiding me. Smokey loved them both, so he wound up combining the two. What's on Sentient is the first version.”
Santana said the songs, some dating to the '90s, make sense in the new context. "I'm always driven by passion, emotion and inner instinct," he explained. "When I first heard these tracks floating around in the house, I said, 'Why don’t we put these all in one place?'"
Another new track on Sentient is "Stranger in Moscow," Jackson's 1995 song that Santana reworks as a live instrumental showcase. "From Stravinsky to James Brown, it's all the same song, meaning it's all connected to the umbilical cord of humanity and planet Earth," Santana said.
