Borboletta is the sixth studio album by Santana

Santana (band)

Santana is a rock band based around guitarist Carlos Santana and founded in the late 1960s. It first came to public attention after their performing the song "Soul Sacrifice" at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, when their Latin rock provided a contrast to other acts on the bill...

. It is one of his jazz-funk-fusion oriented albums, along with "Caravanserai", "Welcome", "Love, Devotion and Surrender" with John McLaughlin, and "Illuminations" with Alice Coltrane, Jack DeJohnette and Jules Broussard. The guitarist leaves a lot of room to percussion, saxophone and keyboards to set moods ("Spring Manifestations"), as well as lengthy solos by himself ("Promise of a Fisherman") and vocals ("Give and Take", a funky guitar-led song). The record was released in a shiny blue sleeve displaying a butterfly, an allusion to the album Butterfly Dreams

Butterfly Dreams

- Personnel :* Flora Purim - vocals* Joe Henderson - flute, tenor saxophone* George Duke - electric and acoustic piano, clavinet, synthesizer* David Amaro - electric and acoustic guitar* Ernie Hood - zither* Stanley Clarke - electric and acoustic bass...

 by Brazilian musician Flora Purim

Flora Purim

Flora Purim is a Brazilian jazz singer known primarily for her work in the jazz fusion style. She became prominent for her part in Chick Corea's landmark album Return to Forever...

 and her husband Airto Moreira

Airto Moreira

Airto Moreira is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. Airto is married to jazz singer Flora Purim, and their daughter Diana Moreira is also a singer. He currently resides in Los Angeles.-Biography:...

, whose contributions deeply influenced the sound of "Borboletta".

Track listing

1. "Spring Manifestations" - (A. Moreira, F. Purim) - 1:05
2. "Canto de los Flores" - (T. Coster, Santana Band) - 3:39
3. "Life Is Anew" - (C. Santana, M. Shrieve) - 4:22
4. "Give and Take" - (C. Santana, T. Coster, M. Shrieve) - 5:44
5. "One with the Sun" - (Jerry Martini
   Jerry Martini
   Jerry Martini is an American musician, best known for being the saxophonist for the popular and influential psychedelic soul/funk band Sly & the Family Stone...
   
   , Earlyrin Martini) - 4:22
6. "Aspirations" - (T. Coster, C. Santana) - 5:10
7. "Practice What You Preach" - (C. Santana) - 4:31
8. "Mirage" - (L. Patillo) - 4:43
9. "Here and Now" - (A. Peraza, C. Santana) - 3:01
10. "Flor de Canela" - (C. Santana, D. Rauch) - 2:09
11. "Promise of a Fisherman" (Promessa de Pescador) - (Dorival Caymmi
    Dorival Caymmi
    Dorival Caymmi was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, actor, and painter active for more than 70 years beginning in 1933...
    
    ) - 8:18
12. "Borboletta" - (A. Moreira) - 2:47

Personnel

• Carlos Santana
  Carlos Santana
  Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
  
   - guitar, percussion
• Tom Coster
  Tom Coster
  Tom Coster is an American keyboardist and composer. Detroit-born and San Francisco-raised, Coster played piano and accordion as a youth, continuing his studies through college and a productive five-year stint as a musician in the U.S...
  
   - piano, keyboards
• Michael Shrieve
  Michael Shrieve
  Michael Shrieve is an American drummer, percussionist, and later, an electronic music composer. He is best known as the drummer in Carlos Santana's eponymous band, playing on their first eight albums from 1969 through 1974...
  
   - drums
• Leon Patillo
  Leon Patillo
  Leon Patillo is an American Contemporary Christian singer and evangelist.-Career:Patillo's first musical endeavor was with the group Creation, later called Leon's Creation. Formed in the late 1960s, Creation was a funk group similar in style and composition to Sly & the Family Stone; they were...
  
   - vocals, piano
• Flora Purim
  Flora Purim
  Flora Purim is a Brazilian jazz singer known primarily for her work in the jazz fusion style. She became prominent for her part in Chick Corea's landmark album Return to Forever...
  
   - vocals
• Jules Broussard - soprano & tenor saxophones
• Doug Rauch
  Doug Rauch
  Douglas Haywood Rauch was an American bassist most famous for his work with Carlos Santana during his jazz fusion period in the early 1970s.-Early years:...
  
   - bass
• Armando Peraza
  Armando Peraza
  Armando Peraza is a Latin jazz percussionist. Through his long associations with jazz pianist George Shearing, vibraphonist Cal Tjader and guitarist Carlos Santana, he has been internationally known from the 1950s through to the 1990s...
  
   - percussion, congas
• Stanley Clarke
  Stanley Clarke
  Stanley Clarke is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores...
  
   - bass
• David Brown
  David Brown (musician)
  David Brown was the primary bass guitar player for the band Santana from 1966 until 1971, then again from 1973 until 1976. David grew up in Daly City, California...
  
   - bass
• Leon "Ndugu" Chancler - drums
• José Areas
  José Areas
  José Chepito Areas is a Nicaraguan percussionist. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 as a percussionist for Santana, which he was from 1969-1980. In 1997 he performed on the album Abraxas Pool with other former members of Santana.-References:...
  
   - timbales, congas
• Airto Moreira
  Airto Moreira
  Airto Moreira is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. Airto is married to jazz singer Flora Purim, and their daughter Diana Moreira is also a singer. He currently resides in Los Angeles.-Biography:...
  
   - percussion

• Airto Moreira and Flora Purim appear courtesy of CTI Records
  CTI Records
  CTI Records was a jazz record label founded in 1967 by producer/A&R manager Creed Taylor. Initially, CTI was a subsidiary of A&M Records, but the label went independent in 1970...