Photo By Hugo Glendinning
Gecko has performed all over the world, including iconic festivals and venues like Glastonbury, Latitude and the Southbank Centre. His self-described singer-storyteller tales have received millions of social media views, as he covers the moments that drive our lives, the little moments and the big ones that show us who we really are.
With his latest album, The Big Picture Gecko continues to be a beacon of honesty with just the right amount of positivity. Telling the imaginary and the viscerally real, he lifts the room with each track, dancing from moment to moment.
The choice of instrumentation is sunny and natural, with Phil Veacock bringing the sounds of sax and clarinet alongside the standard band set-up. The percussion is effortlessly interesting, and each instrument is used in new and innovative ways. Overall, there are ups and downs, highs and lows, but Gecko never fails to bring a smile.
Gecko explains, “For ‘The Big Picture’ I worked with the incredible engineer/mixer Shuta Shinoda (Ghostpoet, Hot Chip). Shuta not only used his technical wizardry and love of analogue hardware to elevate the capturing of organic instruments he also instilled me with confidence in my own home recordings. If something sounded cool it stayed so I felt I could really lean into the scrapbook style, with samples including but not limited to my baby niece’s coos, my Grandad’s voice, my cats purr, gaffa tape, cardboard tubes and a wooden frog.
Listen to the album below…
