Silence - Good Time Baby 1981 / Silence 2 Gordon Gordy - The Beast In Me 1984

During the early 80s, Italo-disco pioneer Celso Valli was involved in several rock oriented but commercially less successful Petrus projects. When disco was definitely on the wane, Fred Petrus attempted to cash in on dance-pop styles that were invading the music market. MTV, which was launched in 1981, heavily promoted new-wave and synth-pop music, boosting the genre's popularity in the United States. That format moved closer to dance music and included acts like Duran Duran, The Human League, Depeche Mode and Wham!. Not to mention that other "purple" phenomenon, called Prince, who revolutionised the laws of the dance floor on his own during the young 80s.

Two years after the second Macho record, Jacques Fred Petrus engaged Valli again to compose and produce the Silence album Goodtime Baby, which was released in 1982. Earlier Celso Valli had written, arranged and directed Italo bombs as Tantra, Azoto, Passengers, Elite, Nuggets and V.I.S.A. which helped secure his reputation as master producer of the Euro-synthdisco genre.
The music Valli created for Silence was no dancefloor material however, but solid radio pop with straight rock arrangements sometimes. The only track that benefited from Celso Valli’s peculiar synth-touch was the interestingsingle cut “Midnight Visitors (Silence)”. Just like on the Macho II project the vocals were provided by the NY-top session singer Gordon Grody.

 The record was taped at the Fonoprint studios where the whole Little Macho Music musician family contributed: Davide Romani, Paolo Gianolio, Doc Powell, Terry Silverlight, Gabriele Melotti, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Maurizio Biancani and Rudy Trevisi. The N.Y. studio singers Diva Gray, Robin Clark, David L. Byron, Tom Bernfeld and Kurt Yagian provided the background vocals. All vocals were recorded and mixed in New York. For the English lyrics Petrus relied on the authors Paul Slade and Carlotta McKee. The album producers were Jacques Fred Petrus, Mauro Malavasi and Celso Valli. But Petrus had trouble selling the album to labels. It only got a release on the small Petrus-owned Italian label Memory Records and the Mexican label Peerless. As the vital distribution mechanism failed, the record came and went unnoticed. For the cover artwork Petrus hired artist Greg Porto who designed a sober square geometric concept.