Chilly Gonzales – Solo Piano III (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:19 minutes | 319 MB | Genre: Classical
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In 2004, he said that his album Solo Piano was a project that had relieved him of a variety of complexes that he had had about the relationship of his music to his character. How to sum up this singer, musician, entertainer? This record with a strong whiff of Satie solved a lot of problems, Jason Beck alias Chilly Gonzalez said at the time… A good decade later, this brilliant Canadian Zebedee bounds between passports, costumes, locations, eras and styles, always one step ahead of getting pigeonholed into a single role or genre. But he regularly returns to this solo, introspective work, as if compelled. This time, Solo Piano III rounds off what he describes as a trilogy. “The musical purity of Solo Piano III is not an antidote for our times”, he says, “it is a reflection of all the beauty and ugliness around us. “ Igi unlock all missions.
Gonzales Solo Piano 2012 Rare
A second volume of solo piano, appropriately titled Solo Piano II, followed in 2012. More piano material arrived in 2014, in the form of Re-Introduction Etudes, an album and book of basic piano instruction designed for novice players who had given piano up and were looking to return to the instrument. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2012 Vinyl release of 'Solo Piano II' on Discogs. Chilly Gonzales had already revealed plans to drop Solo Piano II later this year through Arts & Crafts, but now the busy pianist/rapper/ente.
Less monolithic than its predecessors, this final volume racks up a series of refined nods and winks with a rare intelligence. Satie and Chopin are never far away, and the same goes for Liszt, Bach or, more recently, Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers, the childhood idol of his to whom he dedicated the well-named Chico. Each track on this timeless record is dedicated to one of his “underdogs”. Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk, Fanny Mendelssohn, sister of Felix Mendelssohn, Rudolf Steiner, founder of anthroposophy, composer and writer Hildegard von Bingen, aviator Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly over the Atlantic in 1928, but also groups like Migos and Beach House or Conchita Cintron, the first woman rejoneadora: all are crowned with this pianist’s laurels. – Max Dembo
Tracklist:
1.Treppen – 1:30
2.Pretenderness – 2:44
3.Prelude in C Sharp Major – 2:38
4.Famous Hungarians – 2:05
5.Chico – 1:35
6.Nimbus – 2:01
7.Be Natural – 3:47
8.Ellis Eye – 2:54
9.Present Tense – 2:41
10.Cactus Impromptu – 2:21
11.Lost Ostinato – 3:00
12.Blizzard in B Flat Minor – 1:37
13.October 3rd – 3:19
14.Kopfinko – 3:46
15.Whist – 2:27
Gonzales Solo Piano 2012 Rare
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