Santana (Lotus) -- Sony Japan 4.0 Hybrid SACD -- April 19th, 2017
Not to be outdone, it seems Sony Japan will re-release Santana's Lotus (1973) in Japan on April 19th, as a Hybrid 4.0 Multichannel SACD with 35 minutes of extra tracks. Extras will also be included, and the release will once again use Mini-LP style packaging. Needless to say, it is also a Limited Edition.
You can click the image above, or buy it here at Amazon.co.jp.
【収録曲】 ※初収録音源
[DISC 1]
01. 瞑想 (MEDITATION)
02. 家路 (GOING HOME)
03. A-1ファンク (A-1 FUNK)
04. 果てしなき道 (EVERY STEP OF THE WAY)
05. ブラック・マジック・ウーマン (BLACK MAGIC WOMAN)
06. ジプシー・クイーン (GYPSY QUEEN)
07. 僕のリズムを聞いとくれ (OYE COMO VA)
08. ジャパン (JAPAN) ※
09. バンベレ (BAMBELE) ※
10. ウム・ウム・ウム (UM UM UM) ※
11. 輝ける光 (YOURS IS THE LIGHT)
[DISC 2]
01. バトゥーカ (BATUCA)
02. シババ (XIBABA)
03. ストーン・フラワー (STONE FLOWER)
04. ウェイティング (WAITING)
05. 砂上の楼閣 パート1 (CASTILLOS DE ARENA PART 1)
06. フリー・アンジェラ (FREE ANGELA)
07. ソウサリートのサンバ (SAMBA DE SAUSALITO)
08. マントーラ (MANTRA)
09. 京都 (KYOTO)
10. 砂上の楼閣 パート2 (CASTILLOS DE ARENA PART 2)
11. 聖なる光 (LIGHT OF LIFE) ※
12. すべては終わりぬ (SE A CABO)
[DISC 3]
01. 君に捧げるサンバ (SAMBA PA TI)
02. ミスター・ウドー (MR.UDO)
03. ザ・クリエイター・ハズ・ア・マスター・プラン (THE CREATOR HAS A MASTER PLAN) ※
04. セイヴァー (SAVOR) ※
05. コンガ・ソロ (CONGA SOLO) ※
06. 祭典 (TOUSSAINT L’OVERTURE)
07. ネシャブールの出来事 (INCIDENT AT NESHABUR)
Quote:
Excavation of the sound source of the phantom sealed for 44 years.
The legendary live album "Lotus Legend" containing Santana's first visit to Japan, released for the first time as a "complete version" of 7 additional unreleased sounds recorded! High resolution delivery as well.
Carlos Santana, a guitarist of the ten grammy awards that continues active in the front line for half a century since his debut in 1969. In accordance with the Japan tour for the first time in April that will be held in April, "Complete Edition" of the 3-disc live album "Lotus Legend" announced in 1974, which included Santana's first visit to Japan, was released on April 19 It was decided to be released worldwide from Sony Music Japan International.
This live album contains Osaka performance on July 3rd and 4th, 1973, and it was a tremendous performance that the young Santana band in the first heyday performed before the Japanese audience and later the Guinness World Record The 22-sided jacket which is also certified is a monumental work by live in Japan where artworks with an unexpected scale are handed down still. It is also a work that has special meaning to Santana fan of Japan, because Japanese worked for everything necessary for record production, from planning to recording, photography, design and so on. It was discovered at the end of last year that the analog / multi tape which was actually used in the recording of "Lotus legend" was kept in the warehouse of Sony music of Japan for a long time, it was collected for the first time in 44 years. In analogue multitape which had never been used since 1974, although there were some songs whose performance was interrupted due to some tape exchanges or reels lost for some reason, most of the concert's two-day It turns out that the performance record is in good condition that I can not think it is the tape of the 1970s. The sound source which was inevitably cut at that time due to the fraction of the analog LP fraction recorded is also firmly left, and "Japan" "bamble" "Ummu Uum" "sacred light" "the creator husband · A master plan · "SAVER" · "Conga · SOLO" 7 songs (about 35 minutes) newly added, so that all the songs played in Osaka will be arranged here. The mix of these excavation sound sources was performed by engineer Tomio Suzuki who worked on numerous masterpieces such as the original "Legend of Lotus" and Beck Bogart & Apis "Live in Japan". We carefully chose the equipment and cables to make it sound as unrelated as possible to the preexisting sound source and mixed it and it was mixed into the mix master while keeping the natural and dynamic sound image of the analog tape. The seven pieces (songs) that were missing from the original board are fascinated in the place as ordered in the actual songs, becoming "complete version" without leaving everything from head to finish,
Carlos Santana who listened to unreleased sound for the first time in 44 years arrived the latest comment for Japanese fans. "Legend of Lotus" is a famous Japanese-born piece, Osaka performance tapes were truly wonderful contents These tapes caught the best condition of this band and we were proud of our hearts In order to make it possible to experience Santana 's concert without leaving anything, I used booklets and images produced in Japan for LP 3 CDs, and all the talented Japanese artists were handed out, and these songs and this It is a work that feels a lot of joy for me who is coming closer to the next Japanese tour that unravels the album It was a great feeling to dig a bonus track with Japanese Sony friends.Japan and the world It is an honor to be able to share this "Lotus Legend" that added more fun with Brother and Sister of "The Lotus Destination"
Also, it is a "complete version" that not only finding excavation sounds is complete By the same reason, the quadrafonique version (4ch surround mix) adopted in the Japanese original LP board also achieved the world's first revival this time, furthermore it is super high resolution DSD 11.2 MHz mastering with SACD 4.0, SACD 2ch, CD It has become a high-sound quality hybrid board with the high sound quality. In addition, Tadanori Yokoo's hands-on unprecedented "22 sided face jacket" is faithfully reprinted in original size to 7 inch size, as well as a tour, brochure, Osaka performance ticket replica, luxury separate booklet etc . Indeed the world's Santana fans are surprised again The inevitable "Ultimate Lotus" was born here in Japan.
High resolution distribution using this latest DSD master will also start on April 19.
【Details】
Complete edition of 29 songs including 7 unreleased sound sources (about 35 minutes) that were excavated from the original · analog · multitape recording Osaka performance, recorded in the order of the performance (additional recorded tracks "Japan" "Bamble" " Ummu Uum "" Sacred Light "" The Creator Has a Master Plan "" Savior "" Conga Solo ")
High sound quality hybrid disk specification by two layer structure of DSD 11.2 MHz mastering applied SACD, CD that directly converted its DSD master
SACD 4.0 is a surround mix board that provides a realistic feeling as if listening at actual live venues
Reproduced in 7 inches · size faithfully to the original to the original "22 sided face jacket" (design: Tadanori Yokoo) certified also in Guinness world record
Original LP inclusion color · portrait, atypical size · liner notes, first edition reprint
First visit to Japan tour tour · Resizing pamphlets Reprint
July 4 resizing tickets for Osaka performance
Luxury separate volume booklet: "Legend of Lotus" written by Carlos Santana / "Music · Life" following the pattern of the first visit to Japan commentary on the cover page (August issue of 1939) / Treasure Photo / New commentary by Hidemoto Isoda Takao Suzuki et al.) / 2006 "Testimony of Times" from Reoccurring Board (Tadanori Yokoo, Teruhisa Tajima et al.) / Original Liner Notes of the Year 74 (Katsuo Matsumoto)
【Tracklist 】 * First recorded sound source
[DISC 1]
01. Meditation (MEDITATION)
02. Main path (GOING HOME)
03. A-1 FUNK (A-1 FUNK)
04. ENDER STEP OF THE WAY
05. BLACK MAGIC WOMAN
06. GYPSY QUEEN
07. Listen to my rhythm (OYE COMO VA)
08.JAPAN (JAPAN) *
09. BAMBELE (BAMBELE) *
10. Umm · Uumuu (UM UM UM) ※
11. Shining light (YOURS IS THE LIGHT)
[DISC 2]
01. BATUCA (BATUCA)
02. SHIBAVA (XIBABA)
03. STONE FLOWER
04. WAITING
05. CASTILLOS DE ARENA PART 1
06. Free Angela (FREE ANGELA)
07. SAMBA DE SAUSALITO
08. MANTRA
09. KYOTO
10. CASTILLOS DE ARENA PART 2
11. Sacred light (LIGHT OF LIFE) *
12. Everything is over (SE A CABO)
[DISC 3]
01. Samba
dedicated to you (SAMBA PA TI) 02. Mr. Udo (MR.UDO)
03. THE CREATOR HAS A MASTER PLAN (THE CREATOR HAS A MASTER PLAN) *
04. SAVER (SAVOR) ※
05.Conga · solo (CONGA SOLO) ※
06. Celebration (TOUSSAINT L'OVERTURE)
07. Neshabur events (INCIDENT AT NESHABUR)
This appears to be a layout of the "22-sided" packaging and paper extras included:
I understand Sony Japan really outdid themselves with the production and packaging on this. I hope they sell tons of them, and produce many more titles on JSACD this way. While I love Santana's studio output around the time of Lotus, I could never get into this album. I did buy one of the Jeff Beck JSACD multichannel releases and it was worth every penny. Hopefully many more are coming from Sony/Epic/Columbia vaults.