Chilly Gonzales - Gonzo 180G Red Vinyl LP
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£26.99
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Original price
£26.99
Original price
£26.99
£26.99
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£26.99
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£26.99
Red Vinyl LP
Catalogue Number: GENTLE029V
Barcode: 5051083200455
Record Grading: Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading: Mint (M)
Condition Note: Brand New
Track Listing / Description
01 Top Notch
02 Choose You
03 Girl Harbor
04 The Mansion
05 The Ocean
06 Every Stone
07 All That I Really Wanted
08 Trees
09 Indentions
10 See It Again
11 Cope
12 After The Scripture
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.