Carlos Santana has announced his plans to release a new EP in January. The guitarist will also roll out a new album produced by Rick Rubin between “spring and summer next year.”
According to Billboard, Santana will release Mona Lisa EP on January 25 featuring a three-part suite inspired by the famed painting. Rubin produced the opening part “Do You Remember Me,” while Narada Michael Walden produced “In Search Of Mona Lisa” and the closing “Besame Mucho – Lovers From Another Time.”
Santana also revealed that his band has recorded 49 songs over the course of 10 days in the studio with Rubin. He expects the full album to be released “between spring and summer.”
“They’re killin’, man — you won’t believe the energy in the songs. There were only two or three songs that we did twice — everything else was done in one take, and we were doing, like, five to seven songs a day,” Santana said. “It feels like a blur. They’re all African music from different musicians I love. I’m not bragging, but I have this spirit with the band that they trust me to say ‘That one’s done, let’s go to the next one…'”
Santana also announced plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his performance at Woodstock. Santana will be playing a concert at the Bethel Woods Center For The Arts in Bethel, New York, which is on the site where the original festival was held in 1969. A date has yet to be announced.
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