Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)
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| "Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)" | ||||
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| Instrumental by Santana from the album Amigos | ||||
| Released | March 26, 1976 | |||
| Length | 5:06 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Writer | Carlos Santana, Tom Coster | |||
| Producer | David Rubinson | |||
| Amigos track listing | ||||
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"Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)" is an instrumental song from the Santana album Amigos. One of Santana's most popular songs, it is sometimes a common staple on classic rock radio stations and oldies radio stations.
[edit] Genesis
Upon seeing his friend was suffering a bad experience whilst high on mescaline, Santana composed a song titled "The Mushroom Lady's Coming to Town". This precursor contained the first lick to the song "Europa". It was put away and not touched for some time.
When Santana was touring with Earth, Wind & Fire in Manchester, England, he played this song again, this time with Tom Coster who helped him with some of the chords and thus Europa was born. It was renamed to "Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)".
[edit] Covers
A famous rendition was by saxophonist Gato Barbieri off his 1976 from album Caliente!.[1] In 2006, saxophonist Jimmy Sommers covered the song for his Standards album Time Stands Still.[2][3] Contemporary jazz guitarist Nils released a rendition from his 2009 album Up Close & Personal.[4][5]
[edit] References
- ^ "Caliente! overview". Allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r134951.
- ^ "Time Stands Still overview". Allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r948874.
- ^ "News :: 05.26.09 ::". Allmusic.com. http://www.jimmysommers.com/home.html.
- ^ "Nils Reviews PDF". Nilsmusic.com. http://www.nilsmusic.com/Images/PDFs/REVIEWS%20UC&P.pdf.
- ^ "Up Close and Personal overview". Allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r1490941.
