Sealed 2012 180gm Original With Custom Hype Sticker On Shrink. “Carlos Santana Spent 11 Years In The Company Of Clive Davis And Arista, And As A Result, Sacrificed His Reputation As An Innovative Guitarist. While 1999's Best-Selling Supernatural Temporarily Brought Him Many New Listeners, Each Successive Release Followed The Same Formula -- Pairing His Guitar With Pop Vocalists -- To Diminishing Returns Creatively And Commercially. Santana Tries To Undo The Damage On Shape Shifter, The Debut From His Starfaith Label. All But One Of Its 13 Cuts Is An Instrumental. Producing And Co-Producing Every Track, He Tries Hard To Reinvent Himself Not Into Something New, But Into What He Has Always Believed Himself To Be: An Innovative And Exploratory Guitarist And Composer.” – Thom Jurek, AMG