Whether this album should be credited to Santana is one thing. Whether this album deserves even this meager publicity albeit a scathing review is another thing entirely. There is a term originating from Happy Days called 'jumping the shark' (ask your parents), meaning the point where an artist goes too far. Santana seems to be jumping sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads on his new album 'Shaman'.

Where shall I start with this autopsy? Firstly, where his Grammy laden 1999 album 'Supernatural' succeeded in producing a classic Santana record with great guest vocalists, 'Shaman' comes off as a various artists compilation with Carlos wielding his axe in the background. Single 'Game of Love' with Michelle Branch sounds like a cross between the New Radicals hit 'Get What You Give' and Ronan Keating's 'Life is a Rollercoaster'. Which is surely a coincidence seems the author of both of those songs wrote 'Game of Love'. Note to Gregg Alexander: Give up pal.

Despite some shining lights via the guest free, 'Let me Love you Tonight' and the Ozomatli featured 'One of the Days', the predictable cavalcade of guest artists (Dido, Macy Gray, Sting) turn what should have been a reassurance of Santana's bankability as an artist into a messy free for all.

And finally when artists like Nickelback's Chad Kroeger start appearing on albums your jumping more than just sharks.