Chilly Gonzales – Gonzo (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:48 minutes | 397 MB | Genre: Piano, Modern Classical, Hip-Hop, Spoken Word
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Gonzo from Chilly Gonzales, via Gentle Threat. After 12 years of instrumental albums (ranging from a pair of Solo Pianos, chamber music, collaborative albums with Boys Noize, Jarvis Cocker and Plastikman and even a best-selling Christmas record), Chilly Gonzales has a lot to get off his chest. The notebooks that sat unfilled since 2011’s orchestral rap opus “The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales” started to fill up again in early 2022 after ending a lengthy decade of psychoanalysis. Coincidence? Hardly.
Behind the wordplay and name-dropping (Ron Jeremy, Marie Kondo, Genghis Khan and Phillip Glass to cite a few) the songs that made it to the new album Gonzo reveal an ongoing tension between persuasion and confession, delusion and self-awareness and finally, gratitude. The tension between creativity and commerce also continues to be a career-long exploration for Gonzo.
But is this truly a rap album? Instrumental pieces such as the Stravinsky-esque “Fidelio” or the tearjerking “Eau de Cologne” will remind listeners of Gonzo’s extravagant “musical genius” persona, as the words and rhymes from previous verses settle into their ears.
Tracklist:
01. Chilly Gonzales – Gonzo (03:22)
02. Chilly Gonzales – Surfing The Crowd (05:31)
03. Chilly Gonzales – High as a Kite (03:47)
04. Chilly Gonzales – Fidelio (05:20)
05. Chilly Gonzales – Open the Kimono (feat. Bruiser Wolf) (03:39)
06. Chilly Gonzales – Neoclassical Massacre (04:07)
07. Chilly Gonzales – Cadenza (01:17)
08. Chilly Gonzales – F*CK WAGNER (03:03)
09. Chilly Gonzales – I.C.E. (03:28)
10. Chilly Gonzales – Eau de Cologne (03:04)
11. Chilly Gonzales – Poem (03:06)
