Shape Shifter (album)

{{other uses|Shapeshifter (disambiguation) }}

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{{Infobox album

| name = Shape Shifter

| type = studio

| artist = Santana

| cover = Santana_Shape_Shifter.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Cover art by Rance Hood

| released = May 14, 2012

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Latin rock

| length = 57:22

| label = Starfaith, Sony

| producer = Carlos Santana, Eric Bazilian, Walter Afanasieff

| prev_title = Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time

| prev_year = 2010

| next_title = Corazón

| next_year = 2014

}}

{{Album ratings

| MC = 45/100{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/shape-shifter/santana|title=Reviews for Shape Shifter by Santana|publisher=Metacritic|access-date=March 26, 2018}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/shape-shifter-r2447563/review |title=Shape Shifter - Santana | AllMusic |first=Thom |last=Jurek |work=AllMusic |access-date=May 17, 2012}}

| rev2 = Classic Rock

| rev2score = {{Rating|6|10}}{{cite magazine |title=Santana - Shape Shifter |magazine=Classic Rock |date=July 2012 |last=Yates |first=Henry |issue=172 |page=99}}

| rev3 = Rolling Stone Brasil

| rev3Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite news|last=Lima|first=Carlos Eduardo|title=36º disco marca o retorno de Santana ao formato que caracterizou sua carreira |url=http://rollingstone.com.br/guia/cd/shape-shifter/|access-date=July 13, 2012|newspaper=Rolling Stone Brasil|date=July 6, 2012|language=pt}}

| noprose = yes

}}

Shape Shifter is the twenty-second studio album (thirty-sixth album overall) by Santana. It was released on May 14, 2012. This album is the first from his new record label Starfaith Records,{{cite web|url=http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/santanas-36th-album-shape-shifter-set-for-may-15-release/148100 |title=Santana's 36th Album, 'Shape Shifter,' Set For May 15 Release |publisher=GuitarPlayer |access-date=May 20, 2012}} which is distributed by Sony Music Entertainment, owners of all of Santana's albums (except those recorded for Polydor Records which are owned by Universal Music Group).{{Cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=3604037|title=Images for Santana - Shape Shifter|website=Discogs}} It is also the first album since 1992's Milagro that does not feature guest singers in any of the songs, a style that characterized Santana's albums since Supernatural. The album contains only one song with vocals ("Eres La Luz").{{cite web|url=http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/interview-carlos-santana-on-his-new-album-shape-shifter-541572 |title=Interview: Carlos Santana on his new album, Shape Shifter |publisher=MusicRadar.com |date=April 27, 2012 |access-date=May 20, 2012}} The track "Mr. Szabo" is a homage to the Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó, one of Carlos Santana's early idols, who released a series of 8 albums for Impulse Records between 1966 and 1967; the track features a similar rhythmical and harmonic structure to "Gypsy Queen", a Szabó recording from 1966 covered by Santana in 1970 as a medley with Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman".