Chilly Gonzales

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Gonzales at the Moers Festival 2006

Chilly Gonzales (born Jason Charles Beck on March 20, 1972 in Montreal ) is a Canadian musician .

life and work

Chilly Gonzales is the brother of the film composer Christophe Beck . He first studied jazz piano at Concordia University in Montreal , but then turned to pop music and worked with the Canadian musicians Feist , Peaches and Mocky . He also appeared on the albums Multiply by Jamie Lidell and Secret House Against the World by Buck 65 with. He lived temporarily in Berlin and Paris and settled in Cologne in 2011 .

He became famous for Electro -tracks with satirical tinged Rapgesang for which he titled "The Worst MC" ( "the worst is MC ") awarded. The 2004 album Solo Piano , with serious piano pieces somewhere between neoclassical and jazz , received great praise from music critics . With these pieces he also performed at the Glenn Gould Festival in Berlin in 2007, named after the Bach interpreter Glenn Gould . In 2007 he also worked with the Canadian hip-hop producer and rapper Socalled , on whose album Ghettoblaster he participated and which he also accompanies in concerts. With a more than 27 hours long concert, Gonzales set a world record from May 16-18, 2009. In 2010, Gonzales' title Never Stop was used in television advertising for the first generation Apple iPad . The piece is based on the constant repetition of the same three notes (F sharp-AH) on the piano, the rhythm of which is slightly varied.

He also released the album Ivory Tower in 2010 , which he produced together with the German DJ and producer Boys Noize . The two also shared the stage for a short interlude at the Berlin Festival 2010. In 2010 he appeared occasionally with Helge Schneider . Gonzales himself is considered to be one of the most humorous entertainers in contemporary jazz. Gonzales occasionally called musicians who claim to play primarily for themselves "onanists". Gonzales presented fourteen of his own songs on his 2012 album Solo Piano II . He is one of the guest musicians on published in May 2013 album Random Access Memories of Daft Punk .

After the movie The Ivory Tower , Gonzales and director Adam Traynor brought The Shadow, a musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale Der Schatten, to the stage in 2014 . In 2014 Gonzales teamed up again with Boys Noize to produce an album of the same name under the project name Octave Minds . This was released in 2015 under the Boysnoize Records label. As Octave Minds, the two played their first joint live concert on September 3, 2015 at Berlin's Teufelsberg, where they were musically accompanied by Stella Le Page and the Kaiser Quartet.

On March 16, 2017, Chilly Gonzales and Jarvis Cocker released their joint project Room 29 , a concept album that deals with stories about the Chateau Marmont Hotel and the beginnings of the “dream factory” Hollywood . Gonzales contributed the music, Cocker the lyrics. The album Solo Piano III was released in September 2018 . Gonzalez said in an interview that he was planning to continue wearing slippers and a bathrobe even after the #MeToo debate. On September 20, 2018, the film launch of the documentary Shut Up and Play the Piano by director Philipp Jedike .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Solo piano II
  DE 59 14.09.2012 (2 weeks)
  CH 53 09/09/2012 (3 weeks)
Chambers
  DE 58 04/03/2015 (1 week)
  CH 55 03/29/2015 (1 week)
Room 29 (with Jarvis Cocker )
  DE 49 March 24, 2017 (1 week)
  CH 80 03/26/2017 (1 week)
Solo piano III
  DE 41 14.09.2018 (3 weeks)
  AT 65 09/21/2018 (1 week)
  CH 30th 16.09.2018 (3 weeks)
  • 1999: OP Original Prankster (EP, Kitty-Yo)
  • 2000: Let's Groove Again (single, Kitty-Yo)
  • 2000: Gonzales About Everything (Kitty-Yo)
  • 2000: The Entertainist (Kitty-Yo)
  • 2002: Presidential Suite (Kitty-Yo)
  • 2003: Z (Kitty-Yo)
  • 2004: Solo Piano (Album, No Format!)
  • 2006: From Major to Minor (DVD, No Format!)
  • 2008: Soft Power (Universal Music)
  • 2010: Ivory Tower (Wagram)
  • 2011: The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales (Gentle Threat)
  • 2012: Solo Piano II (Album, Gentle Threat)
  • 2015: Chambers (featuring Kaiser Quartet)
  • 2015: Octave Minds (Boysnoize Records)
  • 2017: Room 29 (Chilly Gonzales & Jarvis Cocker) (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • 2018: OPP - Other People's Pieces (Gentle Threat)
  • 2018: Solo Piano III (Gentle Threat)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Music genius in a strange guise. March 30, 2018 .;
  2. ↑ Popgenie with chamber orchestra , Time , June 17, 2011
  3. ↑ Andreas Fasel: Underground artist Chilly Gonzales has become a star . November 20, 2014 ( welt.de [accessed June 12, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Gonzales plays piano in a morning rock , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , October 10, 2012
  5. ↑ Musician gave a 27-hour record concert ( memento from August 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Kleine Zeitung , May 18, 2009
  6. ↑ World record: Gonzales gave a 27-hour concert in Paris ( Memento from January 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Rolling Stone , May 18, 2009
  7. ↑ Jazz and Humor - Bebop bittersweet , Hans Hielscher in Spiegel online from October 13, 2012, accessed October 17, 2012
  8. ^ Daft Punk Random Access Memories The Collaborators Series
  9. ↑ Fairy tales by Chilly Gonzales set to music , review by Dirk Schneider on Deutschlandfunk from August 7, 2014, accessed August 13, 2014
  10. ^ A musical shadow play , review by Alexander Kohlmann on Deutschlandradio Kultur on August 7, 2014, accessed August 13, 2014
  11. ↑ El famoso músico Chilly Gonzales seguirá llevando albornoces en shows , La Hora , September 5, 2018 (in Spanish)
  12. ↑ Don't you hate this guy? , Carola Padtberg, Spiegel Online , September 21, 2018
  13. ↑ Chart sources: Germany / Switzerland

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personal data
SURNAME Gonzales, Chilly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beck, Jason (real name); Beck, Jason Charles (full name); Gonzales (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian jazz pianist, composer and entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Canada