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Evaluate how effectively Shakira and Santana exploit features of Latin American music with a particular focus on rhythm and instrumentation.
With the songs whenever wherever and oye como va
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Throughout its 45-year recording career, Santana — led by the great Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana — has been synonymous with Latin rock. Yet “Corazón” is the first Santana album with nearly all of its lyrics in Spanish. Gathering much of the album’s material from outside the United States, Mr. Santana now embraces the Pan-American rock and pop that he heralded.
“Corazón“ (RCA/Sony Music Latin) continues the commercial strategy Santana inaugurated with the blockbuster 1999 album “Supernatural.” The albums bring in guest stars to sing and write concise songs aimed for radio play yet reassert Santana’s identity with vigorous Latin percussion and with the constant presence of Mr. Santana’s lead guitar. The way Mr. Santana answers the lyrics and grapples for the foreground until verse and chorus gave way to full-fledged guitar solos is the audio equivalent of photobombing the lead vocal. Luckily, Mr. Santana’s guitar can be as impassioned as any singer’s voice.
Beyond the language of the lyrics, “Corazón” isn’t all that different from Santana’s catalog. Once again, the rhythms touch on rock, mambo, cumbia, ska and reggae (with Ziggy Marley singing “Iron Lion Zion” by his father, Bob Marley, joined by the Colombian rappers ChocQuibTown).
The other guest singers are Latin American all-stars and Latin-rooted Americans. In some tracks — like “Oye 2014,” the 1970 Santana hit (and Tito Puente song) “Oye Como Va” remade with drum machines and a self-congratulatory rap from Pitbull — “Corazón” feels like a committee crossover project. Other awkward moments include “Yo Soy La Luz,” a Latin-jazz excursion featuring Wayne Shorter’s tenor saxophone that’s capsized by voices chanting “Sexy!” (When you have to say so, it’s not.)
“Corazón“ (RCA/Sony Music Latin) continues the commercial strategy Santana inaugurated with the blockbuster 1999 album “Supernatural.” The albums bring in guest stars to sing and write concise songs aimed for radio play yet reassert Santana’s identity with vigorous Latin percussion and with the constant presence of Mr. Santana’s lead guitar. The way Mr. Santana answers the lyrics and grapples for the foreground until verse and chorus gave way to full-fledged guitar solos is the audio equivalent of photobombing the lead vocal. Luckily, Mr. Santana’s guitar can be as impassioned as any singer’s voice.
Beyond the language of the lyrics, “Corazón” isn’t all that different from Santana’s catalog. Once again, the rhythms touch on rock, mambo, cumbia, ska and reggae (with Ziggy Marley singing “Iron Lion Zion” by his father, Bob Marley, joined by the Colombian rappers ChocQuibTown).
The other guest singers are Latin American all-stars and Latin-rooted Americans. In some tracks — like “Oye 2014,” the 1970 Santana hit (and Tito Puente song) “Oye Como Va” remade with drum machines and a self-congratulatory rap from Pitbull — “Corazón” feels like a committee crossover project. Other awkward moments include “Yo Soy La Luz,” a Latin-jazz excursion featuring Wayne Shorter’s tenor saxophone that’s capsized by voices chanting “Sexy!” (When you have to say so, it’s not.)
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