The passion of guitarist Attilio for the music of the great CARLOS SANTANA, she pushed him in the year 2000, looking for musicians in order to a formation similar to that of the band of the guitarist Mexican. Exhausting and long work to form a repertoire entirely dedicated to the music of the great of Autlan guitarist from its origins (Woodstock - Abraxas) at Supernatural ..Most songs are taken from the DVD of the held concert from Carlos Santana in south America in the 1993 "Live in Mexico" from which
Attilio he had chose the name for the his band: "Sacred Fire".
Their repertory is dedicated entire to the great Carlos Santana, from the origins, (Woodstock/Abraxas) to Supernatural...
the project '' Sacred Fire ''
"Sacred Fire" band (new formation 2010) reproposes the project realized by Carlos Santana in 1993 called "Sacred Fire" in honor of Cesar Chavez that in its life fought in order to elevate the human condition and in particular for the rights of workers, the rights civils, the political representation for the racial minorities and for the justice environmental. He has been like the Gandhi or Martin Luther King and other large ones of the earth, a promoter of the change social not violent.
Santana: the source of the rhythm.
From always the music of Carlos Santana represents an explosion of joy of Latin rhythms , which has its roots both in the origin Mexican of the guitarist, that from the evident attraction of all the members of the group towards the rhythms Afro-Cubans and Brazilian polyrhythmias, the world of south american rhythm in its totality.
One of the fundamental characteristics of the Santana style is the great importance given to percussion instruments:
in the bands that have accompanied Carlos Santana since the beginning, there have always been three percussionists, who were divided between congas and bongos the one hand, timbales, cowbells and effects on the other. Among the various formations of the group also, various instrumentalists have played there who have made the history of percussion, from Armando Peraza to Jose' Chepito Areas, from Pete Escovedo to Karl Perazzo, from Mike Carabello to Raul Rekow, just to name a few.
The tribute band Sacred Fire wants to explore the side purely rhythmic of the production of Santana and propose therefore in his concerts a selection of the most famous and important pieces from the point of view of the ritmico content, that enhance the Latin melodies , the solo articulate, sophisticated and imaginative of Santana himself, and allows at the percussionists launching into solo flights exciting but never an end in themselves, on the contrary, integral parts of musical vision of one of plus the great composers and interpreters of rock music.
From the recovery of the tradition Afro-Cuban, with mythical pieces like''Para Los Rumberos'' and the classic ''Oye Como Va'' , to pieces from the more complex harmonic structure but not less fascinating like ''Jingo Lo Ba'' , or ''Gitano'' that pose in relief the charge, the joy of playing this music.
The great rhythmic mastery, the alchemy of rhythm or melodies, perfectly balanced in a prescription that has made of Carlos Santana one of the absolute protagonists of music of our time, a artist extremely original, unique and inimitable.
We can certainly say that the music of Carlos Santana is able to satisfy every need of emotions, and listen to it is how... quench their thirst at the source of rhythm.
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