Notes from the Bone: How the Geckøs were born

A flurry of activity approaches and has awoken me from a deep slumber.

A spark has caught fire.

This is the beginning of the snowball that becomes an avalanche, until the next hibernation.

But it’ll be a slow rolling snowball.

I’m not equipped for the fast lane.

Taking things slow-to-medium is fine by me, and key to survival while keeping your sanity intact.

The name of this snowball is Geckøs, for no good reason whatsoever.

It is a new band of sorts.

A collective of the like-minded.

Something that could never have been planned, and if any planning would have been attempted, it would only have fallen flat on its face.

And doesn’t planning only insult the future?

You can’t control a monster.

Also, whos in charge here?

This is a different ride, where the driver of the vessel is fate.

The stars aligned and the powers at play placed three friends in the same room at the same time to see what happens.

And what happened was a new band and a new album.

The other two geckøs are M Ward and Howe Gelb.

We’ve all known each other for quite a number of years, and have all worked together individually in the past.

But it wasn’t until a friend’s wedding in Tucson last year where we all found oursleves in the same place for the first time.

And sparks flew.

Something caught fire and before we knew it or even thought about it, songs were forming in front of our very eyes and ears.

We didnt write the songs.

They were floating in the ether and whatever energy was going on in the room was kind enough to let us participate and be the vessels to bring them to reality.

That’s how Geckøs was born.

Whatever it was that we were channeling, we ran with it.

Over the coming months, more clusters of songs came and, by some stroke of luck and impeccable timing, a finished record is now in our clusp.

It happened so quick and easy that there was zero time to question it. You just let the wave carry you along for the ride.

So now the snowball begins, in Spain, for a handful of gigs, where we try to make sense of the songs we created, and contain the magic and mystery of it all.