Acclaimed Los Angeles photographer Gary Leonard was in the house for the Keyboard City record release party last week.

See some photos that he took HERE!

Check out what people are saying about Keyboard City and Salvador!

Keyboard Magazine:

Forget that his dad is you-know-who. Salvador Santana’s genre-bending solo debut sounds more like Funkadelic and the Meters had a love child who was then raised by Esquivel in a space age bachelor pad full of analog synths. Really, though, Sal doesn’t sound like anyone else. Producers GZA and Money Mark contribute their unique takes on hip-hop to the rhythm section, which also packs plenty of classic funk and, yes, a little clave. Jump-to tracks include the opener “We Got Somethin’” (which bad-assifies the Diana Ross “Upside Down” groove), the sci-fi “Video Game, Save My Life,” the acid-jazzy hookfest “Truth Fears No Questions,” and the vocoder-sung title track. But all the tracks smoke. You’ll tap your foot. You’ll bob your head while chewing your bottom lip. You’ll drive too fast. And if you play, you’ll try to cop the countless tasty synth, Rhodes, and Clav riffs Sal peppers each track with. We may only be a month into 2010, but I predict that on December 31, 2019, Keyboard City will be well-remembered as one of the standout neo-funk records of the decade.

Spin.com

Los Angeles Times

Urb.com

Happy release day everyone!

Keyboard City is NOW available digitally at iTunes, Amazon and Salvador’s online store.

Check your local record stores too!

You can also stream the whole album this week only at AOL/Spinner Listening Party.

Check out Sal on the Grammy Red Carpet.
Keyboard City out tomorrow, 2/2!

We’re really excited about the album release next week, 2/2 and very excited to start sharing the music with everyone live. We’re also aware that there is a lot going on in the world right now.

If you haven’t already, we’d love for you to send your support to those struggling in Haiti. The first 10 people who send proof of donation to info@salvadorsantana.com will be invited to join Salvador and family at a private, release party happening next week in downtown Los Angeles and bring a guest. (February 4, 8pm, address to revealed to winners)

To quality, you must:
* be over 21
* live near Los Angeles
* submit proof of donation to Haiti (since the disaster struck) to info@salvadorsantana.com

Please submit:
* receipt of a donation
* first and last name
* email address

Recommended charities:
* Doctors w/o Borders

* Best Friends

Thanks, as always, for your amazing support.

Salvador and family

Check out Keyboard City.com and put your building block skills to the test!
Have one of the three top scores by March 3rd 2010 for a chance to win a Korg Synthesizer or an autographed copy of the new Salvador Santana album Keyboard City.

We are happy to announce that Salvador will be hitting the road this March alongside The New Mastersounds and Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave.

The tour kicks off in Boulder, CO on March 3rd, 2010 at the Fox Theatre. Full tour dates and ticket information below.
Come down to a show in your area and check out Salvador’s keyboard-centric line up as they debut material off of his forthcoming release, Keyboard City, out on Various Music/Quannum on 2/2/10.

Stay tuned for more exciting news and as always, thanks for your support!

Tickets on sale this Friday January 15th, 2010.

Check out the tour section of SalvadorSantana.com for ticket purchase information.

3/3 Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO *
3/4 Grand Ballroom, Steamboat Springs, CO
3/5 Agave, Avon, CO
3/6 Ogden Theatre, Denver CO*
3/8 Belly Up, Aspen, CO
3/10 Belly Up, San Diego, CA*
3/11 El Rey, Los Angeles, CA*
3/12 Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA*
3/13 The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA*
3/14 Hopmonk, Sebastopol, CA
3/15 Biltmore, Club Lake Tahoe, CA
3/17 Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR*
3/18 Nuemo’s, Seattle, WA*
* w/ Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

In support of Universal Human Rights Day on December 10^th, Salvador will give away a free, exclusive download of the track “Truth Fears, No Questions” from his forthcoming album Keyboard City. The track is available via download through Salvador’s website.

YOU can join Salvador in support of Universal Human Rights Day by participating in Amnesty International’s annual Global Write-a-thon, the world’s largest letter writing event!

This global action marking International Human Rights Day on December 10 brings people together just about anywhere – in classrooms, churches, workplaces, homes, and more – to make a difference in the lives of prisoners of conscience, human rights defenders, victims of torture and other individuals at risk.

Using the proven power of writing letters, they will pressure authorities to release those who have been unjustly imprisoned and to stop the torture and abuse of others.

Salvador has chosen to support the Women Of Athenco cause. To learn more about it, click here: Women of Athenco

You can join by doing the following:
1) Write letters to the actual women saying that you stand with them in solidarity.

2) Write a letter to the Governor in Mexico demanding accountability for these horrible crimes. This same letter gets copied to the Mexican Embassy in Washington DC.

All information on this case and addresses of where to send the letters can be found HERE.

You can learn more about Salvador Santana and other causes he supports HERE.

Download Truth Fears No Questions HERE.

Remember, we can all make a difference.

Thanks for the support.

from Pitchfork’s “Forkcast”:

OK, so the Hood Internet did a remix of this track “Keyboard City”, by Carlos Santana’s son Salvador. And GZA took a verse, on this remix. And then Dan Deacon came along and decided to remix the remix, because why not? So “Keyboard City” now has a hell of a lot more keyboards, and lot more everything else, too, in true Dan Deacon style, including an army of GZAs rapping over each other, disorienting blurs of synth, and, well, if your head isn’t swimming yet, just listen to this re-remix.

http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/13638-keyboard-city-dan-deacon-remix-ft-gza/

Salvador Santana got his first taste of the family business as a 4-year-old, when his father, guitar hero Carlos Santana, put him behind a drum kit to bash out some beats. He’s been making music ever since, now as a keyboardist and bandleader mingling pop, jazz and Latin sounds with a hip-hop sensibility.

“Music has always been there in my life,” said Santana, 26, sitting behind a vintage Fender Rhodes keyboard at a downtown studio. “At the same time, both my Mom and Dad have always encouraged me to be myself.”

That message is reflected in the soulful sounds of his upcoming release, “Keyboard City,” which glides from the early hip-hop vibe of “We Got Somethin’ ” to the warm down-tempo grooves of the album’s title song and the brooding funk of “Don’t Do It.” Not coincidentally, many tracks reflect some of the same organic energy of his Grammy-winning father’s best-known work of the ’60s and ’70s.

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