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Borboletta is the sixth studio album by the American Latin rock band Santana. It is one of their jazz-funk-fusion-oriented albums, along with Caravanserai (1972), and Welcome (1973).

Reception

Borboletta was the first new Santana band studio album in 11 months and the group’s sixth overall. Once again, individual credits were listed for each song. The main problem was that the band seemed to be coasting; Carlos turned in the usual complement of high-pitched lead guitar work, and the percussionists pounded away, but the Santana sound had long since taken over from any individual composition, and the records were starting to sound alike. That, in turn, started to make them inessential; Borboletta spent less time on the charts than any previous Santana album (William Ruhlmann/AllMusic).

Track listing
Side one
1. “Spring Manifestations (Sound Effects)” instrumental — percussion & sound effects Airto Moreira, Flora Purim 1:05
2. “Canto de los Flores” instrumental Tom Coster 3:45
3. “Life Is Anew” Carlos Santana Carlos Santana, Michael Shrieve 4:30
4. “Give and Take” Santana Santana, Coster, Shrieve 5:46
5. “One with the Sun” Earlyrin Martini Jerry Martini 4:20
6. “Aspirations” instrumental Coster, Santana 5:12
Side two
7. “Practice What You Preach” Santana Santana 4:28
8. “Mirage” Leon Patillo Leon Patillo 4:43
9. “Here and Now” instrumental Armando Peraza, Santana 3:01
10. “Flor de Canela” instrumental Santana, Doug Rauch 2:20
11. “Promise of a Fisherman” instrumental Dorival Caymmi 8:05
12. “Borboletta” instrumental Moreira 2:50

Personnel
Leon Patillo – vocals (3–5, 7, 8), piano (8), electric piano (3, 5), organ (4)
Flora Purim – vocals (1, 11)
Jules Broussard – soprano and tenor saxophones (4, 6, 9, 11)
Carlos Santana – guitar (3–5, 7–11) percussion (2, 9), congas (7), gong (8), vocals (11), producer
Tom Coster – piano (4, 9), Hammond organ (7, 10, 11), electric piano, Fender Rhodes (2, 9–11), organ (3, 5, 6, 8), Moog synthesizer (4, 8), producer
Stanley Clarke – bass guitar (6, 9–11)
David Brown – bass guitar (2, 4, 5, 7, 8)
Michael Shrieve – drums (2–5, 7, 8), producer
Leon “Ndugu” Chancler – drums (6, 9)
Airto Moreira – drums (10, 11), percussion (12), sound effects (1), triangle (11), vocals (12)
Armando Peraza – percussion, congas (2, 4–6, 8, 11), bongos (3, 6, 11), soprano saxophone (10)
José Areas – timbales (4), congas (2, 3)
Michael Carpenter – echoplex (2)

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Released: October 1974
Length: 50:05
Label: CBS
Producers: Carlos Santana, Michael Shrieve, Tom Coster