On October 4, Feist returns with her highly anticipated new album, Metals – the follow-up to her 2007 breakout The Reminder.

Recorded between Toronto and Big Sur, California and co-produced by longtime collaborators Chilly Gonzales and Mocky, as well as newcomer Valgeir Sigurðsson (Bjork, Bonnie “Prince” Billy), Metals marks Feist’s celebratory return to the world stage.

Like The Reminder, this album is astoundingly intimate, yet often exuberant; rife with transcendent and unforgettable pop gems.

Metals will be teased with 12 unique vignettes, each hinting at a different element of this stunningly beautiful, sublime record. Fans can follow their release at listentofeist.com.

Watch two video previews for the album on listentofeist.com . In the first, watch Feist, Gonzales, Mocky, and Sigurðsson at work on the album, and hear a snippet of new music. (Source: Arts & Crafts)

After his Guinness World Record, the album and the Locarno film festival prize-winning feature film ‘Ivory Tower’, the single ‘Never Stop‘ chosen by Apple for their iPad ad and the inter-planetary video hit ‘You Can Dance’ with its near 1 million You Tube views, the musical genius brings us a Limited Edition of symphonic spoken word:

‘The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales’ the first-ever all-orchestral rap album and live show … the dramatic next step after piano-rap classics “The Grudge” and “Crying” from ‘Ivory Tower’.

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 “Solo Piano” fan Drake hand-picked Gonzo to accompany him on stage. 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 will explore the idea of what a modern maestro is. The arrangements by his Hollywood film-composing brother Christophe Beck, take center stage alongside Gonzo’s eccentric personality.

Fans can download “The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales Suite,” a four-minute mix of the entire album, for free right now at CHILLYGONZALES.COM.

Last week one of my favourite artists ever Chilly Gonzales released his seventh album called Ivory Tower. And this time it is produced by no one less than Alex Ridha aka Boys Noize. Gonzo is always good for a surprise and this time it is a movie with the same title, directed by Adam Traynor from Puppetmastaz. The Guiness book world record holder for the longest solo performance by an individual has written and co-produced Ivory Tower in which Gonzo plays himself and his own father, next to Peaches, Feist and Tiga who plays his archly brother. Ivory Tower is available now on iTunes and Beatport.

Tracklist:
01. Knight Moves
02. I Am Europe
03. Bittersuite
04. Smothered Mate
05. The Grudge
06. Rococo Chanel
07. Never Stop
08. Pixel Paxil
09. You Can Dance
10. Crying

Listen to I Am Europe in the trailer for Ivory Tower

Sneak Previews

LONDON
26th August Screen On the Green
83 Upper Street, Islington, London N1

PARIS
12 & 13 September and 19 & 20 September
Cine 13 at 1 avenue Junot 75018

NEW YORK
21 September at Galapagos Art Space
Presented by Chilly Gonzales at the piano
16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 222-8500
www.galapagosartspace.com

HAMBURG
24 September at Fliegende Bauten
Presented by Chilly Gonzales at the piano
Glacischaussee 4

FRANKFURT
26 September at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm
Presented by Chilly Gonzales at the piano
Waldschmidtstraße 4

BERLIN
28 September at Babylon Cinema Theater
Presented by Chilly Gonzales at the piano
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30
Tel: +49 030 – 242 50 76

PARIS
3 October at Cine 13
Sunday Night Acoustic Series Launch
Presented by Chilly Gonzales at the piano
Cine 13 at 1 avenue Junot 75018
www.cine13-theatre.com
Tickets : ++ 33 (0)1 42 54 15 1

VIENNA
1 October at Votivkino Cinema
Währinger Straße 12
presented by Chilly Gonzales at the Piano www.votivkino.at

GENEVA
11 February, 2011 at Theatre Forum-Meyrin
Place des Cinq-Continents 1
Tel : 41 (0)22 782 81 21
www.forum-meyrin.ch

More dates on: chillygonzales.com