Gino Soccio - S-Beat (LP) (1980) - €7,00

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Gino Soccio was an artist from Montreal, Quebec who made a name for himself in the disco/dance genres of the late seventies and early eighties.

However, what separated Gino from his peers was the fact that he was a multi-instrumentalist that could play everything from drums to keyboards.
In 1978, he acted on an opportunity to contribute to a project entitled, Kebekelektrik, and assumed complete creative and productive control of the album.
From there, he realized the freedom and popularity of disco and began producing his own albums. His first was in 1979, entitled, Outline, and the single, Dancer, became a top 50 hit in the U.S.. He was nominated for Composer as well as Instrumental Artist of the year Junos but lost both to Frank Mills that year.
S-Beat was his sophomore release in 1980. Steady Operator is a deep album cut that mixes reggae, disco and new wave. It is a really phenomenal track that shows how Gino was so ahead of his time in broadening the boundaries of dance music.
This transformation of traditional disco was later assumed by many rock bands who branded their music New Wave in the early eighties. Human League, Yaz, Depeche Mode, M and Ultravox are all examples of bands that made careers out of this trend in music.

The second album from elusive Canadian disco legend Gino Soccio that despite the bland artwork features some stunningly produced discoid gems like the boogie roller I Wanna Take You There and the sleazy spatial robo-disco jam Rhythm Of The World..

Chalk this one up to a very, very midsguided attempt at rock music. This album was released at the end of 1980.
Disco had officially “died”. The music industry was without direction and was deperately trying to find the newest fad it could jump onto. Many record labels tried to have their disco artists cross over into rock, often with disastrous results.

Side A

A1.  S-Beat - 4:40

A2.  Heartbreaker - 4:01

A3.  Rhythm Of The World  (Lead Vocals – Heather Gauthier) - 6:44

A4.  Steady Operator – 3:03

Side B

B1.  The Runaway - 5:07

B2.  Running In Circles - 4:21

B3.  Love Is - 2:31

B4.  I Wanna Take You There (Now) - 5:58

Companies, etc.

• Made By – WEA Musik GmbH
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Copyright © – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Recorded At – Pete Drake Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
• Recorded At – Studio St-Charles
• Recorded At – Studio Tempo
• Mixed At – Studio St-Charles
• Mastered At – Sterling Sound
• Lacquer Cut At – Tonstudio Pfanz

Credits

• Acoustic Guitar – Gino Soccio
• Backing Vocals – Gino Soccio, Heather Gauthier, Judy Richards, Laurie Niedzielski
• Bass – Jack August, Peter Dowse
• Composed By, Arranged By, Producer – Gino Soccio
• Coordinator [Album] – Bob Siegel, Ray Caviano
• Coordinator [Production] – Gaston Gravell
• Cover, Design – Greg Porto
• Drums – Alfred Beasley, Derek Kendrick, Mark Higden, Marvin Joly
• Effects [Special] – Gino Soccio, Paul Page, Rene Godbout
• Electric Guitar – Gino Soccio, Howard Forman, Johnny Hagopian, Réjean Bouchard
• Engineer – Paul Page
• Engineer [Assistant] – Rene Godbout, Rex Kelly
• Horns – Carlyle Miller, Colin Biggin, Gary Nagels, Roger Walls
• Keyboards, Piano [Acoustic] – Gino Soccio
• Lead Vocals – Gino Soccio
• Mastered By – Jack Skinner
• Mixed By [Mix Down] – Gino Soccio, Paul Page
• Music By, Lyrics By – Gino Soccio
• Music Consultant – Robert Ouimet
• Percussion – Luc Boivin
• Photography By [Photo Concept] – Gino Soccio
• Piano [Wurlitzer] – Robbie Goldfarb
• Programmed By [Synthesizer] – Ronald Desgagne
• Strings – Lloyd Barry, The Shelly Kurland Strings

Notes

Release: 1980

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Electro Disco

Label:  RFC Records

Catalog#  RFC 56 795

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover:  Lichte gebruikerssporen (G

Prijs: €7,00