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Legendary guitarist Carlos Santana has announced a new retrospective album titled “Sentient.” The effort will be released on March 28 and it will feature 11 tracks.

The following was said about the release:

“‘Sentient’ is composed of 11 dazzling tracks — three of them previously unreleased — compiled by the virtuoso guitarist, remastered and sequenced in a way that allows a new and dramatic story to emerge. As is often the case when the spark of musical magic strikes, Santana was surprised, delighted and receptive. ‘I’m always driven by passion, emotion and inner instinct,’ he says. ‘When I first heard these tracks floating around in the house, I said, ‘Why don’t we put these all in one place?’

The songs that make up ‘Sentient’ are complex compositionally, but they float by like a dream. There are brilliant collaborations with Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Miles Davis, Paolo Rustichelli, Darryl ‘DMC’ McDaniels and Cindy Blackman Santana, but no matter the mood or genre – whether it’s lush pop or high-intensity cosmic jazz – it’s all part of a common thread. As Santana says, ‘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.’”

The first single, a “Sentient version” of Smokey Robinson’s “Please Don’t Take Your Love”, can be found below. Santana added the following about that:

“I went to the studio and did my own thing. 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.”