Day 1, album #3?

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Martin Guigui
22 mins ·
Recording with the immensely talented Haley Reinhart (American Idol) at legendary Sunset Sound in Hollywood. Grammy award winner John Burk at the helm for Concord Records, and a big fat back beat rhythm section- Mike Merritt & Mike Shapiro. Watch for this CD in May! It's super hip!

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Sunset Sound - Studio 2

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Some of the albums recorded in Studio 2: Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin IV, Van Halen (4 albums), Beck: Odelay, and Sheryl Crow: C'mon, C'mon.

Martin Guigui is an award winning filmmaker and Grammy nominated Music Producer.

Guigui has directed 8 Films, written 16 screenplays, Executive Produced over a dozen movies, composed music for over 20 films, and TV shows and produced over 30 music albums while touring extensively. Guigui has worked with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars including Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Dennis Quaid, Charlie Sheen and James Franco. Born in Buenos Aires Argentina, son of Famed Symphony Orchestra Conductor Maestro Efrain Guigui, Martin had an eclectic upbringing in New York, Puerto Rico and Vermont, a music prodigy playing Violin at age four, his concert debut with the Puerto Rico Symphony at age 12, performing Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in D Major. An accomplished Pianist, music director and record producer Guigui has worked with icons such as Billy Gibbons, Daryl Hall, Sheila E, Steve Earle, James Cotton, Phish, Jose Feliciano, Smokey Robinson, David Byrne and many others. ...
http://www.martinguigui.com/guiguibio.htm

Among other things Guigui is a director and does a lot of film work

Nine Eleven (2017)
1h 30min | Action, Drama | 2017 (USA)

Director: Martin Guigui
Stars: Charlie Sheen, Whoopi Goldberg, Gina Gershon ...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4917224/

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Mike Shapiro has worked with such noted artists as will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas, Justin Timberlake, Natalie Cole, Macy Gray, Dori Caymmi, and Sergio Mendes with whom he has recorded many albums together including 1993’s Grammy-winning “Brasileiro”, 2006’s Latin Grammy-winning “Timeless” and 2010’s Latin Grammy-winning “Bon Tempo”.

drummer, percussionist

Michael Monroe "Mike" Merritt (born July 28, 1955) is an American bassist best known for playing with the Conan O'Brien house bands...

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I would guess that Guigui is producing some of the album.

Martin Guigui Band w/ Kenny Aronoff & special guests


Percussionist Mike Shapiro has played with Sergio Mendez for a long time as well a Herb Albert/Lani Hale (Bossa Nova land).


Mike Merritt


Martin Guigui worked with Billy Gibbons on his solo album and it appears he continues to work with him (from FB posts)

THE DEBUT SOLO ALBUM BY ZZ TOP GUITARIST/VOCALIST AND ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE BILLY GIBBONS

Perfectamundo is the debut solo album from Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top guitarist/vocalist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, who is backed by a handpicked group of musicians dubbed The BFG’s on this unique outing. As the title may suggest, the album takes on a bit of an Afro-Cuban flavor that may come as a surprise to some Gibbons fans and followers.

Even before the blues-rock/hard-rock great’s first recordings back in 1967 with the Moving Sidewalks, his legendary pre-ZZ Top Houston psyche-punk garage band, Gibbons studied Latin percussion in Manhattan with none other than its preeminent virtuoso, “Mambo King” Tito Puente, a friend of Billy’s bandleader dad. Puente taught the young Gibbons the essential Latin rhythms via conga, bongo, maracas and, most importantly, timbales. “Banging away on ‘em came back like riding on a lost bicycle,” Gibbons relates of his return to the genre by way of Perfectamundo.

But the concept for Perfectamundo, which was produced by Gibbons and Joe Hardy and recorded in Houston, Los Angeles, Austin and Pontevedra, Spain, originated with Gibbons’ invitation to perform at the 2014 Havana Jazz Festival, delivered by his Argentine-born, Puerto Rico-raised friend and musical collaborator Martin Guigui. While he was unable to make it to Cuba, Billy did commence exploring the potential for an Afro-Cuban inflected album project at his Houston studio. Soon after presenting his engineering crew with a business card from a newly opened Cuban eatery called Sal Y Pimienta (salt and pepper), the first track finished for Perfectamundo took its title from that card.

He followed this with a “Spanglish” version of Louisiana swamp blues maestro Slim Harpo’s classic “Got Love If You Want It” and an Afro-Cubanized take on the Lightnin’ Hopkins blues staple “Baby Please Don’t Go,” thereby fully merging Gibbons innate Houston blues tradition with Cuban rhythms. With the first three tracks ready to go, he sought further guidance from Guigui as well as Chino Pons, a Cuban friend who heads his own quartet in New York. “Chino, so to speak, sprinkled holy water on our efforts and expressed confidence that we were headed in the right direction—and that bit of affirmation gave us the impetus for more forward motion,” says Gibbons.
[note from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXSQn00cXj4]

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/billy-gib...ectamundo/

Treat Her Right (Guigui on piano)


Video for Grammy Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rEHTNcrfBk