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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 7, 2006
MANU CHAO +THELONIOUS MONK+ BOB MARLEY = GECKO TURNER
GECKO BRING’S HIS “AFROBEATNIK” STYLE TO SXSW:
Wednesday, March l6th at Caribbean Nights for The World/KUT Showcase & Saturday, March l8 at Spiro’s
Guapapasea! Out on Quango Records April 4 - #8 on I-Tunes!
Los Angeles, CA - Quango recording artist Gecko Turner calls his music "afrobeatnik," combining his love of the beat poets, Nigerian Afrobeat sounds, jazz, blues and reggae. Gecko will play two showcases at SXSW (see below), as part of PRI The World/KUT's All Music World Music showcase on 3/l6 and at Spiro's on 3/l8.
Find Gecko's April 4 release Guapapasea! on AOL's Music Party this week: http://music.aol.com/songs/new_releases_full_cds
The album was #8 last week on I-Tunes! The title track "40.000 (Guapa Pasea)" was recently used the Spanish movie "Obaba", nominated for 2005's Best Foreign Film.
Marco Werman, host of PRI's The World, calls Gecko's album for Quango Records "Guapapasea!" "extremely playable…" Even Gecko's name is a cross cultural fusion: Gecko is a play on a Spanish nickname and Turner salutes two loves: Big Joe Turner AND Katherine Turner!
Link to The World interview:
http://www.dbaronmedia.com/index.php/artists/geckoturner/news
SXSW Showcases:
Thursday, March l6 9:00pm Carribbean Nights "All Music is World Music"
Saturday, March l8 10:00pm Spiro's, inside
ABOUT GECKO TURNER:
Spanish singer, songwriter, producer and guitarist Gecko Turner is part of a new generation of musicians whose imagination is unfettered by boundaries. His omnivorous appetite for the groove is evident on every track of Guapapasea!, his stunning debut album.
Guapapasea! is an album full of unexpected juxtapositions and deliriously mixed up beats, none perhaps more surprising to American ears than the track that opens the album, his Spanish language re-make/re-model of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues". A tropical flute blows long floating notes over a swinging one-drop reggae rhythm. Other standout tracks include "Rainbow Country," another clever cover, this time of Marley's "Roots, Rock, Reggae." It's a paired down track that blends flamenco guitar and hand clapping with an acoustic reggae groove.
Gecko sings and composes in English, Spanish and Portuguese and is backed by his 12 piece band, The Afrobeatnik Orchestra. Musicians include some of the best from the Afro-Cuban jazz scene including Ruben Dantas, Rodney Dassif and the great trumpet player Irapoam Freire.
Guapapasea! has already won Spain's Premio Extremadura a la Creacion, given each year to writers and musicians who have created work that furthers the recognition of the Spanish language as a creative medium. The title track "40.000 (Guapa Pasea)" was recently used the Spanish movie "Obaba", nominated for 2005's Best Foreign Film.
LISTEN TO GECKO TURNER TALK ABOUT HIS MUSIC ON BBC's THE WORLD.
About Quango Music Group:
Quango Music Group is a Los Angeles based tastemaker label, renowned for championing emerging sounds from around the globe. Quango helped bring acts like Zero 7, Koop, Talvin Singh and Kruder & Dorfmeister to the forefront of America¹s musical radar while creating innovative lifestyle compilations that are considered to be ahead of the curve. Quango continues to break new ground with an international roster of forward-thinking artists such as Bliss (Denmark), Cantoma (U.K.), Gecko Turner (Spain) and Bitter:Sweet (U.S.)
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For More Information
Julio Trejo
Director of Public Relations
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Julio@dbaronmedia.com
Quango Music Group
Jared Barboza
Director of Marketing
310.691.8665 / 310.614.6197
jared@quango.com
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