El Coco ‎– Brazil (AVI, 1975) Full Album [Latin/Disco]

``During the mid to late seventies the production team of Laurin Rinder and W. Michael Lewis helped define the Disco sound that was coming out of Los Angeles. They did this through their work on such studio projects as El Coco, Saint Tropez, Le Pamplemousse and countless others... A very famous gay Disco called Studio One was near Laurin's home so one night Laurin and Michael, who are straight, decided to stop by and see what this new Disco music scene was all about. Laurin says they discovered the following, "they were playing real old stuff, but kind of remixing them on the board and making them longer and taking two turntables that nobody had ever heard of and combining different things and we kept saying wow, this is weird." The two found themselves dumbfounded. Laurin said that their first impression was, "My God, what are they doing? They're like screwing around with these great old songs." I asked if they were intrigued or horrified and Laurin's answer was "intrigued, very intrigued." It was annoying to them at first since here is a record company (AVI) that was willing to pay them loads of money to do this easy stuff when they were pros. They were jazz musicians who could read and write music. Now a Disco DJ who had no formal training in music controlled the floor and was essentially stripping them of their powers. The Disco DJs were taking the music away from the musicians, but they could not help noticing that the crowd was eating it up. "People were going nuts." Laurin's attitude was "if that's what they want, we'll give it to them. I saw a window of opportunity, I have this record company with all this f*cking money, and they're going to pay us to do this thing. We can do this with no problem at all." Within a two-month stretch they pounded out tons of material with the first one being El Coco's Let Get It Together. When I asked Laurin how the name El Coco came about he readily admits, "We were doing a lot of cocaine-it was pretty much that simple my friend." I then asked about the making of Let's Get It Together and he informed me that a traveling actress/singer by the name of Merria Ross was given studio time by AVI heads to record a song she had written called, Let's Get It Together. Laurin "fleshed out" the rest of the song and Merria was given writing credits. They all went into the studio and the verse Lets Get It Together was all that Merria ever sang, After this break, Merria went on to have charting songs with Randy Crawford, High Energy and was nominated for a Grammy for Finger On the Trigger with Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton (of Michael Jackson's Thriller fame).`` El Coco ‎– Brazil Label: AVI Records ‎– AVI 1040, AVI Records ‎– AVI - 1040 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1975 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Latin, Disco Tracklist A1 Caravan 0:00 A2 Masquerade 4:13 A3 Disco Carnival 8:20 A4 Zanzibar 12:38 B1 A Cancão Do Nosso Amor 16:34 B2 Delicado 21:20 B3 Bahia 26:54 B4 Brazil 30:59 Companies, etc. Phonographic Copyright (p) – AVI Records Copyright (c) – AVI Records Recorded At – Producers Workshop Mastered At – Kendun Recorders Credits Backing Vocals – Adrinne Williams, Pat Powdrill Design [Album], Artwork – Bob Wynne Drums, Percussion – Laurin Rinder Engineer – Galen Senogles, Joe Bellamy Executive-Producer – Ed Cobb And Ray Harris Mastered By – JG Piano, Organ, Electric Piano, Clavinet, Synthesizer, Tenor Saxophone, Acoustic Guitar – Michael Lewis Producer – Michael Lewis And Laurin Rinder Notes A RinLew Production Co. Inc. Production for AVI Records Dedicated to our friends in Brazil at Top Tape Records; Big Boy; Sabastian and Pedro at the Rio National. ℗ 1975 AVI Records © AVI Records, a Division of America Variety International #vinylrip