It really happened accidentally. I was putting myself in a box. Luckily, I decided to record it and work on it and finish it for the album. When I had the finished album, I could tell people were reacting positively to that piece.
I ended up putting it as the first piece on the album, because I luckily had the luxury of time to understand that piece and understand that it represented the way forward to me, not some aberration. So, an uninterrupted free-flow of pressure-free composition. Yes, what it allowed me to do is to allow the pieces — and this is, of course, a psychological effect, not an actual thing that happened — but I had a feeling that the pieces could write themselves, because under time pressure and constantly going back and forth from tour, it takes a while to settle into a place where there is no judgment, no pressure.
I just spent my sabbatical year composing and building up that archive, as you called it, of ideas and germs of ideas, half-finished things, possibly things that might become other things.
I should take it somewhere. After listening to what I had done, I realized that these pieces are a little less eager to please than, perhaps, the other albums, but go deeper and also represent different emotional states other than just the agreeable ones. I feel it makes the listening experience a bit richer, at least for me. An acceptance of dissonance within your own sound world.
So I have to think about three modes of listening, in a way. I was a background pianist. That is not an insult to me. Once in a while I do. Will you play twenty minutes of piano at my dinner? If not me, then who? I like that. We talked about process. Does that process change at all? Drake is a very hard-working, self-aware guy — very professional. I think to get to the level that Drake is at, you have to be extremely used to working situations.
Well, I started a music school called The Gonzervatory this year. He was a Danish guy, and he did a kind of A lot of things I do on stage are influenced by him, a lot of his humor is very much dad humor on the surface, but, in each case, there is some sort of musical truth that needs to be unearthed in those kinds of jokes.
Just stupid observational humor. Comedy is a huge influence on me. I have enormous respect for stand-up comedians, comedic writers, and comedic actors. I have a question.
Over here. I just want to say, first, thank you for the lecture. Because I have. Everything you talk about harmony-wise and arrangement-wise is perfectly natural to me. No, what I mean is I think what you would have to maybe do is realize that you have to look deep, find out what really triggers you emotionally. What in my darkest moment is going to give me an epiphany? I did feel something when I heard that. That just supersedes everything. In a way, you have to stay in your bubble and trust that you are Maybe think of when you fell in love with music, also.
In my case, it was like that. I had to literally force myself to remember to not always analyze music and find some other part of my brain. Luckily, I remembered back to the moments when I felt emotionally connected to music, where it was like The Smiths , which, musically, are not a very virtuosic band.
That was important for me to remember. I am different from my brother. I feel something so strong when I hear those Smiths songs. Is there time for one more, or are we at a point Chilly Gonzales Thank you, and Emma Warren For you, is it partly about learning how to do it properly so you can do it wrong? Chilly Gonzales It depends what parts of your musical personality. I think, you would, like Emma Warren For you, though? Chilly Gonzales In my case, I was very interested in how harmony works, so that was a place where I chose to be a good student essentially and to trust my teachers and let them lead me.
Chilly Gonzales That was a great reminder, I guess, that fun should be the first goal of music for the way I want to do it. Emma Warren What kind of musical communication went on between you and your brother, then?
Chilly Gonzales He was older, so of course I admired him and looked up to him. Emma Warren At that point being the key phrase. Chilly Gonzales Yeah, I vanquished him at some point laughs.
Emma Warren Like a kitchen reload. You had this stuff at home? Chilly Gonzales Yeah. Emma Warren The kit side of it, you had that at home because your brother was interested in that stuff and had it or because, was there something in your family about Chilly Gonzales My grandfather was the source of the music for my brother and I.
Emma Warren Did he or your Chilly Gonzales Maybe not Lionel Richie. Chilly Gonzales There is no teenage hip-hop loving self. I only got into rap in my mids. Emma Warren Would that person be happy about the stripes that you now have by working with some of the biggest names in hip-hop? Emma Warren If you were to cast your mind back. Chilly Gonzales I got interested in rap as a way of having a career.
Emma Warren This is when you were rapping under the Chili Gonzales name? Chilly Gonzales No, well before that. Emma Warren When did you discover that Drake was a fan of your piano music? Chilly Gonzales You guys know who Drake is?
Chilly Gonzales Then began a couple of years where I had to be very patient waiting for my chance to maybe work with him one day. Emma Warren I wonder if now would be a nice moment for you to give us a little bit of musical explanation over here. Chilly Gonzales Sure. Should I go over to the piano? Emma Warren When you were hearing piano though, were you always hearing it through the ears of someone who loved pop music? Emma Warren Was there ever a period where you stopped playing? Chilly Gonzales A little bit.
Emma Warren That quite naturally leads us to talk about the Re-Introduction Etudes , the score books that you made particularly for people who do want to pick something up again. Chilly Gonzales Well we were in a bubble with just the few of us that were there together. Emma Warren … Musically in terms of the things you were doing, and pretty hardcore.
Chilly Gonzales Yes. Emma Warren Give us a bit more laughs. A certain intellectual distance that in Canada we were… Emma Warren Speaking very generally of course. Chilly Gonzales We were more goofy. Emma Warren The plan is the plan right, not a thing.
Emma Warren Aside from Presidential activities Chilly Gonzales Well, it evolved fairly naturally. Chilly Gonzales I called it a pre-tirement.
Emma Warren Oh OK. Chilly Gonzales I did a tour with Peaches, Feist, and Mocky, and sort of all my musical family at the time, and we did a tour that was kind of like a roast. Emma Warren The pieces of music on Solo Piano , why are they themes? Chilly Gonzales Because of the Platonic world of forms. Chilly Gonzales A mix of both. Chilly Gonzales John Cage would argue zero notes.
Emma Warren Talking of knowing or not knowing, obviously with a lot of training you get to know. Chilly Gonzales Well you have an advantage. Chilly Gonzales That was for people who had a little bit of piano teaching in their past. Emma Warren Okay. Emma Warren In your training you learned a lot about the kind of classical greats.
Chilly Gonzales Well my personal hero is Franz Liszt. Emma Warren What did people think the piano was for then? Chilly Gonzales Playing songs in between. Chilly Gonzales Liszt, right, was the first I think to really get that and put that personality out there, the fantasy first. Chilly Gonzales Oh yeah, Room 29 is a project, an album I did with Jarvis Cocker, the singer of Pulp, who was a neighbor of mine in Paris back around Chilly Gonzales Better. Emma Warren Or your other dog metaphor.
Audience Member I know your father was a huge opera fan, have those melancholic areas influenced your music? Chilly Gonzales Negatively laughs. Emma Warren OK, so we had some questions on this side? Audience Member I had a quick question. Emma Warren OK.
Audience Member How are you doing? Chilly Gonzales Good. Chilly Gonzales Well I would say that rap also showed me the way on how to think about that issue. I'm a polygamist; I like to be married to lots of people. His instrumental album, Solo Piano , followed, drawing comparisons with Erik Satie, before a soft rock record titled Soft Power. He also holds a Guinness world record for the longest-ever solo performance: this came last year at a theatre in Paris where he now lives , when he played the piano for 27 hours, three minutes and 44 seconds, essaying Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" and Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" among others.
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