I really can’t find much info on who Chi-Chi Favelas is/was. But this crazy disco album has some pretty important names on it.

Once again, Lene Lovich writes all the lyrics, and this time the music is written and produced by Alain Wisniak. Wisniak was a close friend and co-composer on the Kongas project with Cerrone, and also helped Cerrone with production and engineering on some of his later work.

The vibe of this particular incarnation for all the people on this album is “Rock Disco” and it comes off fairly well, I think, on the title track and on the Cocaine Suite which finds Chi-Chi covering the J.J. Cale classic made famous by Eric Clapton. I can actually hear this following some of the disco punk bands that have rose up in the last few years like LCD Soundsystem or The Rapture.

The writing onthe back of the album says:

This album has been dicophonicalloy recorded to perfection on the most advanced equipment specially for your dancing pleasure. We have used only the funkiest ingredients to insure this L.P. to be of the highest quality. OUr experienced engineers personally guarantee the groove to be as fresh and exciting as the moment it was laid down. You are now invited to sample th latest and tastiest disco sound around. try it…you’ll like it!!!

Check out the picture of Chi-Chi.

You gotta check it out. Downloads at my blog here!

P.S. Don’t go thinking I’m a coke fiend because of my last two posts. Just a kooky coincidence. Cocaine is the drug that brought down disco in the states. How could a reasonable person condone that?!?

P.P.S. What the hell is with that creepy autoasphyxiation cover anyway?