Cerrone
Disco gets dismissed wholesale way too often by American musicians. There were a lot of really interesting disco records made, and they deserve to be revisited.
One such artist is Cerrone. I’m about to contradict myself here and call the records a little campy- but there’s still something really original about a lot of the material. Giorgio Moroder wasn’t the only person making disco records…
Cerrone’s a relative unknown to American audiences, but he sold something like 30 million records a 5-10 year period after 1977. So this post might be laughable to a European audience. Disco was a passing fad to the American audience- quickly eclipsed by what we now call “classic rock,” probably for reasons relating to Cold War paranoia, homophobia, and ethnocentrism.