About

He's been an indie kid, a Jewish Rapper, a soft rocker, a record-breaking solo pianist, a soundtrack composer, a producer (of Feist, Jane Birkin and Jamie Lidell), and a member of a band of puppets. Yet somehow that's just not enough for Jason Beck aka Chilly Gonzales, the Canadian who burst onto the global scene in 1999 alongside the similarly playful Peaches. For the Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales, he's decided to make the world's first orchestral Rap album. Working alongside film-score-composer brother, Christope Beck, The Unspeakable is a pithy 27 minutes and nine songs long, far too brief to outstay it's 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.

The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales is the first ever all orchestral rap album. 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.

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Label: Gentle Threat
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country: Europe
Released: 2022
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop, Jazz
Style: Jazzy Hip-Hop

File under: Hip-hop 2000s & beyond
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