| Shape Shifter | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Santana |
| Cover: | Santana_Shape_Shifter.jpg |
| Caption: | Cover art by Rance Hood |
| Released: | May 14, 2012 |
| Genre: | Latin rock |
| Length: | 57:22 |
| Label: | Starfaith, Sony |
| Producer: | Carlos Santana, Eric Bazilian, Walter Afanasieff |
| Prev Year: | 2010 |
| Next Title: | Corazón |
| Next Year: | 2014 |
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,[1] 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).[2] 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").[3] 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".
All tracks were written by Carlos Santana, except where noted.