Gonzo Chilly Gonzales

• 1 Gonzo 03:22
• 2 Surfing The Crowd 05:31
• 3 High as a Kite 03:47
• 4 Fidelio 05:20
• 5 Open the Kimono (feat. Bruiser Wolf) 03:39
• 6 Neoclassical Massacre 04:07
• 7 Cadenza 01:17
• 8 F*CK WAGNER 03:03
• 9 I.C.E. 03:28
• 10 Eau de Cologne 03:04
• 11 Poem 03:06
• Total Runtime 39:44

Info for Gonzo

A masterpiece of words: After twelve years of instrumental albums (from two solo piano records and chamber music to collaborative albums with Boys Noize, Jarvis Cocker and Plastikman and even a Christmas bestseller), Chilly Gonzales has a lot to get off his chest. The notebooks, which had remained empty since the orchestral rap opus ‘The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales’ was released in 2011, have been filling up with words again since the beginning of 2022, after Gonzo ended a long decade of psychoanalysis. A coincidence? Hardly. Behind all the wordplay and name-dropping (including Ron Jeremy, Marie Kondo, Genghis Khan and Philip Glass), the songs that have made it onto the new album ‘Gonzo’ reveal a persistent tension between conviction and confession, delusion and self-knowledge and, ultimately, gratitude. The tension between creativity and commerce is also a topic that has long preoccupied Gonzo. Is this really a rap album? Instrumental pieces such as the Stravinsky-esque ‘Fidelio’ or the tear-jerking ‘Eau de Cologne’ remind the listener of Gonzo's self-declared role as a ‘musical genius’, while the words and rhymes of the preceding verses linger in the ear.

Chilly Gonzales

Chilly Gonzales
Grammy-winning Canadian pianist and entertainer currently living in Europe, is known as much for the intimate piano touch of best-selling albums Solo Piano I and Solo Piano II as for his showmanship and composition for award-winning stars.

Gonzo, as he is known to close collaborators, aims to be a man of his time, approaching the piano with classical and jazz training but with the attitude of a rapper.

Chilly Gonzales holds the Guinness world record for the longest solo concert at over 27 hours. He performs and writes songs with Jarvis Cocker, Feist and Drake, among others. With Never Stop, Chilly Gonzales composed a global hit for the inaugural Apple iPad 2 campaign. In 2014 he won a Grammy for his collaboration on Daft Punk’s Best Album of the Year and composed the best-selling book of easy piano pieces Re-Introduction Etudes. With the 2015 album Chambers, Chilly Gonzales devoted himself to finding a modern take on chamber music before completing the Solo Piano Trilogy in 2018 with Solo Piano III. 2020 sees the return of Chilly Gonzales to the stage with a new program that opens, as always, with various medleys of intimate pieces from the Solo Piano Trilogy.

Both hits and hidden surprises from the rest of his repertoire will be found interspersed with new Christmas-themed Masterclasses full of playful explanations about how music works. This December 2020 tour … so close to the Holidays … will surely contain some very Chilly Christmas surprises.

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