Oneness (Carlos Santana album)

Oneness: Silver Dreams - Golden Reality
Studio album / Live album by
Devadip Carlos Santana
ReleasedMarch 1979
RecordedDecember 1977–1978 (A1–A6 recorded live at Osaka Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan in Osaka, Japan; A7–B6 recorded at The Automatt in San Francisco, California)
Genre
Length45:55
LabelColumbia
ProducerDevadip Carlos Santana
Devadip Carlos Santana chronology
Inner Secrets
(1978) 		Oneness: Silver Dreams - Golden Reality
(1979) 		Marathon
(1979)

Oneness: Silver Dreams - Golden Reality is a 1979 album by Carlos Santana. It was his second of three albums (the others being Illuminations and The Swing of Delight) to be released under his temporary Sanskrit name Devadip Carlos Santana, given to him by Sri Chinmoy. The album, which consists mostly of instrumental songs and ballads, features members of the band Santana, as well as Carlos Santana's first wife Deborah and father-in-law Saunders King.[1] According to Santana, Oneness was influenced by Weather Report's album Mysterious Traveller.[2] The track "Transformation Day" is an adaptation of part of Alan Hovhaness's symphonic work Mysterious Mountain.[1]

  1. ^ a b Weinstein, Norman (2009). Carlos Santana: A Biography. Greenwood Press. p. 61.
  2. ^ Santana, Carlos (2014). The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light. Little, Brown.