Watch my performance with Chilly Gonzales!
Often times it’s the casual shows, the “oh I’m just doing this on the side for fun” shows that end up being my favorite ones. Maybe it’s because I love to improvise. Or maybe it’s because these are shows I do with my friends, which is fertile ground for creativity. Last year it was my set at the Do Over. This year so far, my favorite performance was this little guest spot I did at Chilly Gonzales’s “Piano Talk Show” at Joe’s Pub in New York last Thursday. It was barely rehearsed, only 15 minutes in length, and we were both coming in from long flights with little to no sleep. Watch the result, I hope you enjoy it!
I strongly recommend Gonzo’s new mixtape, Pianist Envy. Trust me, you’ve never heard anything like this. Download it here!
Big thanks to Nicky Digital for the video clips.
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wow. really nice. I love Gonzo! fun experiment!
nice skills A-Track, I love your remixes and originals of course.
Love from Portugal!
both of you should play like that more often
WOW! that shit is amazing. I thinks its time for that show to go on the road.
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wow that second video is serious!
Holy guacamole ! This is dope !
When’s the world tour?
that was great. is he wearing a bathrobe? i certainly hope so!
Hey A-Trak,
Was wondering where the vocals in the second video come from? The acapella before R.Kelly’s.
By the way, would it be cool if I uploaded these on Youtube? I’ve put up the ‘secret weapon’ track as well because 1. Its dope as heck and 2. Build the hype! : )
you guys HAVE to show some love to your hometown and make a show like this in Montreal … in a small bar or something
Thanks everyone!
These will probably make their way to youtube in a few days…
As of now there are no concrete plans to tour but I’m sure there we’ll do another collabo at some point in there future.
Elko, the 1st acapella in the 2nd clip is Stevie Wonder “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)”
Wow, this is an incredible performance. This is the future of music here, man. Collaborations like this are what music needs, analog and digital in harmony.
amazing atrizzy! I’m lookin forward to see more of this..
alain, love this collaboration, so awesome!!! i’ve seen gonzales in concert twice and he seemed to have kept his sets identical both those times. this new material is super exciting.
Hey, Is there a high quality recording of the audio around by any chance?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH @the break down in the second vid around 9:40
i heard chilly on q the other day with leslie and he played his meledy. anyways i love him. you’re a mensch too alain!!!!! canada!!! i’m sending this to all my friends and i’ll see if they like it.
i heard chilly on q the other day with leslie and he played his meledy. anyways i love him. you’re a mensch too alain!!!!!
STRAIGHT DOPE!
Man, unbelievable, you gotta post a track list, that first piano track in the first video, i gotta find out what that is. Much Respect. Keep doin what you do best.
i gotta say, you and him did an awesome set together. it was one of the coolest things ive seen in a long time. and im not easily impressed, lol. just downloaded his mixtape too. i really liked what he did with 50′s “many men”
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So amazing. Told basically all of my friends in NY to go tomorrow night. So sad I can’t make it because I have to work in Killadelphia Friday.
Your set together was definitely very very inspiring and impressive and refreshing. So sick of all the talentless bs circulating the internet lately. I was starting to feel dumbed down by it all until I saw this. Brought my standards back up to where they should be. Thank you! Gave you both a shout out on my blog: http://www.simplesavoirfaire.com. Enjoy!
Salut Trak,
Je trouve honnêtement que tu manques de technique dans ces passages, et que le cas échéant ça entache tout le concept. On connait ton talent, cependant là tout est assez stéréotypé, tu ne fais pas grand chose aux platines, et ça donne une place inégalitaire au travail des deux artistes, en l’occurrence je reproche à ce genre de performance de ne montrer qu’un partie très basique du tablism et de leur donner ainsi une image d’Épinal faussée.
Je vais prendre pour exemple la partie où tu utilises le trigger finger, c’était le bon endroit pour sortir un drmming monstre et un champion et passionné comme toi le sait, j’aimerais avoir ton avis sur la question et sur cette critique qui peut paraitre assez virulente mais n’est que le fruit d’un respect et d’un besoin particulier de donner un avis impartial.
PEace
Kta
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Salut Key.
En effet cette performance n’est pas très technique. C’est vraiment un plan improvisé. En te lisant, je me suis demandé si j’aurais peut-être dû en faire davantage, mais faut pas oublier le contexte de cette salle: un show piano hyper relax, des mecs qui boivent des martinis en écoutant les blagues de Gonzales… j’hésitais un peu à m’exciter avec des phases de drumming complexes devant ce public! Cela dit je viens de commencer une nouvelle collaboration avec Travis Barker où là, le tablism technique est vraiment mis de l’avant, pour le coup. Je mettrai bientôt des extraits video… avec du drumming.
Merci pour ton feedback.
Salut track,
Je ne connaissais pas du tout le contexte de la salle, et je comprends tout à fait que faire des choses que le public ne comprend pas forcément c’est pas toujours très utile même musicalement. En revanche, j’ai bien apprécié la vidéo avec le batteur, on sent que ça a quand même été bossé. Je réalisé en ce moment une étude universitaire sur le turntablism, et j’aurais aimé ton avis justement sur cette fusion entre plusieurs typologies d’artistes, qui pour moi n’est pas possible par tous, et pas non plus partout dans le monde. Si tu as quelques minutes pour y répondre je te laisse mon mail: djktana@free.fr
Merci pour ton retour, on a pas toujours les tenants et les aboutissants de ce qui se passe autour sur une vidéo.
David Cartee
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