Carlos Santana has spent more than five decades proving that the electric guitar is a vehicle for spiritual transmission, from Woodstock to the Supernatural era and well beyond. Sentient arrives as a late-career statement from an artist who has never stopped searching, gathering threads from across his recent work and reweaving them into something cohesive and intentional. For a player whose tone alone is instantly recognizable anywhere on the dial, that restless curatorial impulse is very much part of the tradition.

Carlos Santana is music’s great collaborator, blending his singular guitar style and expansive musical vision with a stunning variety of artists to create something new, unique, and universal. Santana’s vision for Sentient was to revisit recent collaborations through a new lens, weaving them together into a sonic pilgrimage that passes through jazz, hip-hop, soul, rock, and Latin rhythms. The songs on Sentient range from recent hits and superstar collaborations to rare, unreleased, and overlooked tracks that Carlos wanted to re-introduce in a new context.

Tracklist

Side A

1.Let The Guitar Play – Radio Version2.Stranger In Moscow3.Whatever Happens – Sentient Version4.Please Don’t Take Your Love – Sentient Version

Side B

1.Get On – Sentient Version2.Vers Le Soleil – Sentient Version3.Coherence4.Blues For Salvador

UPC: 708857335312
Label: Candid
Release Date: 3.28.25
Format: LP Vinyl