It asks us to hear the magic of what Carlos Santana did by reveling in the sonic texture, the Latin-gone-psychedelic moxie of those notes.
They have a life force, and that’s the story “Carlos” tells. Built around an extended interview with Carlos Santana, who at 75 is spry and rueful and funny and confessional, Rudy Valdez’s documentary presents Santana’s life and career in a straightforward way, but that doesn’t explain why the film is so enthralling.
What was there in Santana’s music from the start, and what never left , was an electrified faith, a belief in life that he poured into his fusion of rock ‘n’ roll and Latin jazz and the blues and…that ineffable Santana thing. In the late ’60s, when Santana was a skinny good-looking kid with a mustache, hanging around Bill Graham’s Fillmore Auditorium , he won attention for his skills and was tapped to go onstage as part of a Sunday afternoon fill-in set.
The next thing he knew, the Woodstock announcer, with that deep voice, was introducing Santana. Carlos stepped onstage out of his mind on acid. We’ve all seen Santana in the “Woodstock” movie, playing “Soul Sacrifice” — the driving beat, the thrashing-drums-and pumping-organ intensity, topped by Carlos’ extended soloing, as articulate in its fury as Hendrix’s. He also makes some very ugly rock-overbite faces.
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