Gecko Turner - Chandalismo Ilustrado
Gecko Turner
Chandalismo Ilustrado
2006 Lovemonk
This is one of a long list of artists I discovered by taking the sage advice of the always on point (even when it is way off with typos) Straight No Chaser.
Gecko Turner is apparently short catchy moniker for a very long Spanish named fellow who breeds catchy, breezy grooves with some Iberian charm. His music is not fonky as much as keep a multilingual laid back 70s retro lean with bits of sampladelic hip-hop, bossa nova, and chilled latin pop.
It is pretty derivative stuff in a lot of ways, but it is done often quite well; like a Nil Lara/Ed Motta collaboration of Marvin Gaye and War covers produced by Stuart Matthewman before he went full-bore Cottonbelly.
I think my favorite cut is Afrobeatnik, which sounds like Nigerian High Life meets East LA circa 1979.
And for some reason his tunes always make me think of Freddie Prinze Sr.
Chandalismo Ilustrado
2006 Lovemonk
This is one of a long list of artists I discovered by taking the sage advice of the always on point (even when it is way off with typos) Straight No Chaser.
Gecko Turner is apparently short catchy moniker for a very long Spanish named fellow who breeds catchy, breezy grooves with some Iberian charm. His music is not fonky as much as keep a multilingual laid back 70s retro lean with bits of sampladelic hip-hop, bossa nova, and chilled latin pop.
It is pretty derivative stuff in a lot of ways, but it is done often quite well; like a Nil Lara/Ed Motta collaboration of Marvin Gaye and War covers produced by Stuart Matthewman before he went full-bore Cottonbelly.
I think my favorite cut is Afrobeatnik, which sounds like Nigerian High Life meets East LA circa 1979.
And for some reason his tunes always make me think of Freddie Prinze Sr.
