Chilly Gonzales - "Ivory Tower"

Seven years on from 'Solo Piano', a new thread for the new album.

I Am Europe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk_rOFTSHQ4

Never Stop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57xF4E5NDL0

Bittersuite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZtACc4P0s4

...from the film 'Ivory Tower'

http://imgur.com/951jQ.jpg

Have been playing this at every spare moment for the past few days and I'm still not entirely sure if it's meant to be a straight soundtrack album or not.

I can't decide if I want to see the film or not.

Watching Gonzales live can be great fun, but I don't know if making a film based around chess is going a bit too far.

internets say that there is a cinema screening of this on Thursday ten minutes walk from where I'm staying but the theatre website and linked ticket sites say nothing?! :-/

Gonzo has not played live in Australia for almost eight years :-/ :-/

(he told the promoter that the one I saw was the best gig he'd ever played...)

I'm expecting the film to be one part Rocky, one part Fame, one part Eight Mile.

Glad I decided to go to see this. It's exactly what you'd expect if you extended Gonzales' in between song banter into a film, full I'd puns and stuff. I wished there was more music in it though.

it was also a but strange watching Gonzo, Tiga and Peaches in a love triangle.

OMG people still care about gonzales, tiga and peaches?!?!?!

xp How late did it end up finishing? I was put off by the fact I had to be up this morning at 5AM but ended up only getting about three hours' sleep anyway. Should have gone.

it finished around 1am. there was a short q&a after the film.

it was a bit silly having the film so late, but i guess only a small audience is interested in this kind of thing anyway.

I wished there was more music in it though.

Yes! The credits listed what must be the whole album, but the only prominent bits were a great piece with Gonzo in the car in from the airport at the beginning, Never Stop during the chess championship, and the same minute of I Am Europe, twice. Not that the story itself really needed it, as it's not about music, but all that bouncy, propulsive piano made the film come alive in a different way whenever it dropped. I was perking up and bouncing in my seat every time.

Tiga was fantastic in this, incidentally.

<3 Tiga <3 <3 <3

this film was such a delight!

in terms of acting skills maybe gonzales' mum > tiga> gonzales > peaches.

didn't realise there were so many of us there last night...

"I just made things even more confusing by re-adding the 'Chilly' to my name," he says, ever the smartass, though no less charming for it. "Is it Gonzales or 'Chilly' Gonzales? Beautiful chaos..."

"Have you ever hated someone? I have."

Gonzo talks about, and then plays a hilariously dinky Casio version of, The Grudge, one of the vocal tracks on the new album.

The vocals in the verses on Crying sound really badly produced?

what the hell is with this voiceover shit

http://chillygonzales.com/wp-content/uploads/london_gig.jpg

Totally can't wait for this tonight.

I love this guy's piano playing and he's good at mixing but all that self-referential rapping/voiceover stuff is absolutely obnoxious. I really find it impossible to listen to.

I was sort of disappointed tonight. Didn't come out from it with such as high as previous shows, maybe because I wasn't drinking, or having seen his a number of times in the last few years his show has lost the element of surprise.

SBd you for having had the chance to see him a number of times in the last few years

Me too. Never seen him. Does he do a kind of musical journey monologue kinda production?

I have seen him, but he hasn't come to my hemisphere, let alone country, for over eight years*

(back then it was half fake-baby-grand, half rapping over backing tracks, lots and lots of monologue/dialogue with Feist, Feist as backing singer/lead singer/hook chick/perc/Omnichord player, Savvy on gtr for a couple, lots of covers and medleys at the piano.)

*and said at the film screening in London that he wasn't going to

Last night was mostly the Ivory Tower album with a few bits off Solo Piano and The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales, some covers with the guests and "Take Me To Broadway".

Did he do the 'piano dubstep' bit at the Pigalle shows? Seemed familiar.

"The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales" leaked, it appears.

All of this is amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uInEKBkb870

I'd like to see that orchestra performing with a real singer instead of that totally embarrassing cunt.

I wish he'd do another solo piano album.

think the last track on the new one is for you