Gecko Turner Gets Funky With ‘Chicken Wire’
Maybe James Brown’s lyrics are to blame for many Spaniards’ habit of referring to a genre they love as “funky” instead of “funk,” confusing the verb with the noun. Or maybe it’s Wild Cherry’s fault for singing “Play That Funky Music, White Boy.” Whatever you call it, Gecko Turner brings it to his new album, … Continued
Gecko Turner: «Sé que le podría hacer un discazo a George Michael»
El gran músico, cantante y productor extremeño Fernando Gabriel Echave, alias Gecko Turner, autor de la canción de la última campaña de turismo de su tierra, presenta «That Place By The Thing With The Cool Name» este fin de semana en el Festival Contempopranea. Será su primera cita con sus fans tras su regreso de … Continued
Entrevista con el músico español Gecko Turner, en su primera visita a México
Fernando Gabriel Echave Pelaez, mejor conocido como Gecko Turner, es un músico español de amplia experiencia y carrera musical, que luego de formar parte de varios proyectos emprendió su carrera en solitario y ha dado al mundo cuatro discos, el más reciente de ellos: «That Place By The Thing With The Cool Name». Con el … Continued
Gecko’s Pleasure Principle
Some of my earliest musical memories are of the Cuban drummers who used to play in Central Park all summer long. The sounds would drift up to my 11th floor aerie, forming an ambient bed of rhythm on which to fall asleep. Many of the drummers were recent immigrants, forced out by Castro’s revolution and … Continued
Audio : Gecko Turner “I’ll Do That”
Disponible depuis le 27 avril, That Place By The Thing With The Cool Name, le quatrième album de Gecko Turner, est un irrésistible fourre-tout où se mélangent les influences de Sly Stone, Marvin Gaye, Os Mutantes, JJ Cale, Tim Maia et Michael Franks. D’origine espagnole, Turner (né Fernando Gabriel Echave Pelaez) http://comprar-ed.com/viagra.html mène depuis 2006 … Continued
OKP Premiere: Gecko Turner Creates His Own World Of Sound On New LP ‘That Place By The Thing With The Cool Name’
Gecko Turner, for those with more local tastes, comes to us from the other side of the pond with a particularly dashing brand of sound. Just one look at the name of his fourth studio album That Place By The Thing With The Cool Name shows that he’s less concerned with how things look, more … Continued
Conversations with Wyclef Jean
A Conversation With Wyclef Jean Mike Ragogna: Wyclef, how is the recoding coming on your next album Clefication going? Wyclef Jean: Well, it’s going great. We’re definitely not finished yet, though. As musicians, we are constantly just writing music every day in the studio. Then once in a while we get an itch to put … Continued