Feist co-conspirator-collaborator-producer Gonzales is playing tonight at the Jane Mallet Theatre in Toronto. This is a rare performance by the criminal mastermind O.G. (Original Gonzales)—a man known as much for his slight of hand—as (soon) his album Soft Power. This record, at long last, makes Feist and Gonzales label-mates on Arts and Crafts.
Gonzo co-produced Feist's last two-albums and sprinkles his dust around a great gang of other musical minds. You will find this out when you read this article.
This video for his first single, Working Together, is amazing. When you're done, search and rescue his last album Solo Piano from the past, that time before you carried it always, hither and nigh.
And then, and then, if you're in Toronto tonight (and somehow if you're not), come see Gonzales, at the Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Performing Arts {27 Front Street East}. Doors are at 7:00; Tickets available at the door.
Here is an excerpt from the article linked to above, to tease you:
"Audiences in France have grown accustomed to Gonzales’s prankish humour: in concert, he is apt to cover Phil Collins and Philip Bailey’s Easy Lover or perform in white gloves with his hands projected on a screen above the stage. But even there, fans aren’t sure how to take his provocations."
