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Hello, I'm Dominic Green for My Life and Arts Editor, a Spectator USA,

and I'd like to welcome you to our weekly Life and Arts podcast.

This week, I'm talking to the Grammy-winning Canadian pianist, entertainer and composer, Chile Gonzalez,

a phenomenal talent, and in many ways the air to the great 19th century tradition

of the spectacular entertaining piano player.

Gonzalez is classically trained, but he's well known for recording with artists like

Drake, Darth Punk and Jarvis Cocker.

Earlier this year, he launched the Conservatory, his own own music school he's also got a new album out this

year solo piano three and is the subject of a cinema release shut up and play the piano uh so it's a

busy year for you uh gonzo you um have a new album out solo piano three which is um six years since the last one. How does this differ?

Well, it's the end of a trilogy, first of all. And, you know, it's the rule of threes. I must say

doing a solo piano four just doesn't have quite the same ring to it. But I tend to have the

luxury of always surprising people with new projects, new directions,

suddenly chamber music one album, suddenly collaboration with Jarvis Cocker called Room 29

or doing an electronic album with Boys Noise.

And this is kind of also perhaps some sort of luxury as an artist who always gets to press reset and you always have the

sort of open-ended curiosity of people and it's just a little bit different when I make a solo

piano record because there are two existing albums which are quite beloved by those who know them

and so for the first time when I did solo piano two,

I had to kind of understand I could potentially disappoint people.

I could suffer from the comparison to something that exists already.

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