Music Review

Album Review: 'Brothers' (1994)

Santana
Reviewed by Chuck Eddy | Oct 07, 1994
EW's GRADE
B

Details Lead Performance: Santana

Most of this meeting between Carlos Santana, brother Jorge, and nephew Carlos Hernandez is wordless wallpaper: psychedelic blues solos over Caribbean congas, sometimes mellifluous, often mellow. The jazz- noise of ''Transmutation/Industrial'' and the tropical ''Luz Amor y Vida'' both stomp with Hendrix-style heaviness, but the album would have been more fun if Carlos had a relative who could belt out salsa vocals. B-

Originally posted Oct 07, 1994 Published in issue #243 Oct 07, 1994 Order article reprints

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