COCO' 80 by ORCHESTRA COCO'

With this new work, the trio composed by LUCIO VILLANI, AUGUSTO CRENI and MARCO MATURO takes a turning point by adding original pieces into their usual repertoire and accepts the challenge of transferring their style and consolidated working method to the great hits of the decade that marked a great change of the Pop: the eighties of the last century.

The ORCHESTRA COCO's method of re-arrange to their own style songs of the great orchestras and great performers of the early twentieth century, is now used for the pieces and the authors of a decade characterized by the advent of the strong technological innovation in the recording industry. The reinterpretation of what the use of new electronic tools has generated, in terms of sounds, is here proposed with the acoustic instruments of manouche tradition.

In this perspective, the song Relax (Frankie Goes to Hollywood), a manifesto of the 80s pop culture, opening the album, is introduced by Villani's double bass which punctuates the entire piece with the obsessive groove.
Enriched by pure acoustic sounds, the synthetizer’s sine waves are obtained using a large diapason and a Tibetan bell. Villani’s voice and the architecture of the riff are grafted onto the bass, reinterpreted by the two guitars blossoming solos. The album unfolds in a more usual way with She Drives me Crazy, a song dedicated to the woman who drives us crazy (present in every album of the trio) who, after an almost progressive intro, takes us back to swing with a doubling ending all with dance.