Arc Studio, Lagos

ARC (Associated Recording Co.) Studio was a production project undertaken in Lagos, Nigeria, by Ginger Baker, with the assistance by american engineer Tony Orlando.
The project consisted in a 16-track recording complex (the first on the African continent), with full professional equipment, including a Helios console, a Studer 16-track tape machine, a 26-channel mixing console, various outboard goodies and acoustics designed by Sandy Brown Associates. Inaugurated at the end of January 1973.
There, Band On The Run" (see Sam Sutherland, 'Studio Track', "Billboard", March 2, 1974, p. 26).
In the early 1980s, it was acquired by Phonogram.