Cargo Records

The Unspeakabel Chilly Gonzales

The Unspeakabel Chilly Gonzales’ is the first-ever all-orchestral rap album and live show … the dramatic next step after his piano-rap classics ‘The Grudge’ and ‘Crying’ from the ‘Ivory Tower’ album. Chilly Gonzales warned us of rap with "no beats" in 2000 (The Entertainist). Since then, he created the all-piano rap mixtape ‘Pianist Envy’ (250 000 downloads) and today, he brings some “Gonzpiration” to the rap game. Accompanied by Hollywood swells, tympani rolls, noble French horns, hypnotizing bells and influenced by Prokofiev, Morricone and Phillip Glass among others, this record is Chilly Gonzales’ “professional confessional”, revealing more of himself on these monologues than ever before. Accompanied live by a chamber orchestra, Chilly Gonzales explores the idea of what modern maestro is. The arrangements by his Hollywood film-composing brother Christophe Beck, take center stage alongside Gonzo’s eccentric personality.

A Limited Edition of symphonic spoken word, 1000 180g vinyl copies only, with insert.