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Track Listings
| 1. Supervillain Music |
| 2. Self Portrait |
| 3. Party in my Mind |
| 4. Different Kind of Prostitute |
| 5. Rap Race |
| 6. Beans |
| 7. Bongo Monologue |
| 8. Who wants to hear this? |
| 9. Shut Up and Play the Piano |
| 10. Different kind of prostitute (instrumental) |
| 11. Self Portrait (instrumental) |
| 12. Beans (instrumental) |
| 13. Who wants to hear this ? (instrumental) |
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As with so much of what Gonzales does, there’s a danger that this new record will fall into the pile marked ‘novelty’, but – as he’s consistently proven – the man is way too talented to allow anything so superficial to leave the studio. This time, the self-appointed "musical genius" admits that, "the genius is in the arrangements", and in his brother, Christophe Beck, he’s found the perfect foil. The composer has won an Emmy for his work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and also scored films as diverse as The Hangover and Garfield. So where most rappers would need to reach for their sampler, Gonzales most likely sat down with his brother to hatch the plan in a more relaxed manner. It certainly sounds that effortless.
Gonzales isn’t taking many chances, though: The Unspeakable… is a pithy 27 minutes and nine songs long, far too brief to outstay its welcome. Instead it flies past in a whirlwind of razor-sharp, self-deprecating one-liners and knowingly smart-arse comments about the state of the industry and the rap genre, all set against a backdrop of symphonic vignettes more familiar within epic Hollywood movies.
It opens with Supervillain Music, in which, against a complex compound time signature dominated by kettledrums and brass, he suggests we "come and listen to a schmuck talk about a bunch of random stuff". Having set out his stall – "I’m a lot of things but a left-wing singer songwriter I’m not" – he blasts through Party in My Mind, in which a decision to take a night off is closely examined against what sounds like a car chase through a North African souk, and Rap Race, in which a melancholic instrumental accompanies his (hopefully) mildly flippant defence of the mores of modern hip hop, inviting others to "cut your losses / maybe you prefer The xx or the Gossip".
It’s in that song that he also reveals his mode d’emploi – "I took my inner Larry David and exaggerated it" – and therein lays the secret of his appeal, selective though it might be. Whatever the setting he chooses, you know there’s always going to be enough intellect lying alongside the vulgarisms and cheap jokes to make him engaging. As he says in the final track, "My new album’s finished, you might not like it / But it’s good for you, eat your spinach". And if you choose not to, he’ll be along with a new flavour before too long. As that final song also advises, "one of these days I’ll shut up and play piano…"
--Wyndham Wallace
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Witty, if sometimes jarring, lyrics are combined with amazing orchestration to produce a blend of rap and classical music that works incredibly well.
I've since bought most of his back catalogue which seems to jump from one musical genre to another, but there's a common thread of quality that runs through it all. Even if you don't care for the occasional rap vulgarisms, you have to admire his musical ability. A talented guy.
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Whit men can't jump but they can defiantly effortlessly combine hip hop with classical music or at least that seems to be what Canadian DJ, Producer, musician and more recently actor Jason Charles Beck aka chilli Gonzales aims to prove. Havening already gaind a considerable reputation as a musical genius in his native Canada he now sets on conquering the rest of the world with his new release the Unspeakable Chillie Gonzales. Coming across like a classically trained m and m he waxes lyrical busting moves and implanting grooves into his peculiar mixture of classical music, hip hop beats and little dash of everything.
He starts proceedings with gusto, epic Opener Supervillain Music witch saws and swoops with trombone piano , violin and cunningly placed hints of mariachi later songs like different kind of prostitute see a more melancholy almost moren full tone being introduced witch helps balance the constant tongue in cheek hip hop references.
Mr. Beck is defiantly not some one who takes him self seriously and people looking for anything other than a fun 45 minuets will be very sorry they chose to listen to this album but it is this witch ultimatly saves Jason from making what could have bin the mother all wiga please moments come to life. Ultimately its fair to say he's not best rapper in the world. His often puerile lyrical content makes it clear that he really wants to be be something he defiantly isn't and ultimately this makes the album seem like more of a novelty than a serous atempt at musician ship.
Its a lot like talking to that one guy you know who would basically be totally fine if weren't for the fact that he wasnt determined to come across as the one person he wasn't. All of the above havening bin thuroley taken into account Chilli Gonzales is a highly talented innovative musician witch gives his music a genuine level of creditability, those seeking a soul searching tour de force will defiantly be disappointed but for those who are willing to take chance with out taking them selves to seriously there this could be the album for you.
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