Chilly In F Minor Live Recording now on Soundcloud to celebrate this week the 4th anniversary of breaking the Guinness World Record for longest solo concert (27 hours 4 min)

https://soundcloud.com/chillygonzales/chilly-gonzales-chilly-in-f

Gonzo plays The Organ

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Trapped in the Tumblr Closet: Chilly Gonzales

Chilly Gonzales is a musical genius. Or so he says. This alt-rocker cum piano virtuoso (née Jason Beck) freely admits the name’s just a front — a brand that calls attention to the persona one adopts as performance artist — and prefers to err on the side of outrageous in his work.

Gonzo was born in Canada, lives in Paris, and collaborates regularly with the likes of Feist, Daft Punk, and Drake. He raps while he plays, wears bedroom garb during performances (imagine the juxtaposition of his bathrobe and slippers to the rigid penguin suits of his accompanying orchestras), and broke a Guinness World Record a few years back (for the longest concert by a solo artist — 27 hours, 3 minutes, 44 seconds). His stuff is moving and soulful; he’s turning young people on to the power of the orchestra. And when the orchestra’s rapidly aging current audience is dead and gone in a few decades? The concert halls will be filled with Chilly fans, he predicts. We don’t doubt it. 

— Sky Dylan-Robbins