With his new album, Gecko Turner confirms that he is a standout artist in the global groove scene, a must for the outernational sounds aficionados. Gecko's Afro-maduran soul is built on Afro-American music and drenched in Brazilian, African, Latin American and Jamaican sounds. There are also echoes of a youth marked in equal parts by our man?s admiration for the Beatles and the flamenco that could be heard everywhere in Badajoz in the seventies. It makes for a singular sound and a musical language of its own?spicy, succulent, full of nuances, but with a very personal flavour. Gecko Turner has done it again with Somebody From Badajoz, looking to the future without losing sight of the roots. In times of upheaval all over the globe, when people are looking for purity, he delivers a formidable piece of work: risky, optimistic in spite of everything, and with a decidedly bastard sound. Let's rejoice.
Tracks:
1. Coo-Coo My Soul 00:05
2. Twenty-twenty Vision 04:16
3. De balde 04:43
4. Ain't No Fun Preachin' to the Choir 03:47
5. The Sibariteo Appreciation Society. 04:15
6. Little Dose 04:30
7. Am I Sad? 04:22
8. Que siesta tan buena (he babeao y to...) 04:19
9. Come and Try 03:05
10. Everybody Knows Somebody from Badajoz 04:09
11. End of the World 04:22
