WILL SHIP IN EARLY OCTOBER.

60% of the Geckos live band (Howe Gelb, Beth Goodfellow (Iron and Wine, Pokey Lafarge) and Thoger Lund (half the bands in Tucson), work out their improvisational itches. Ltd Ed of 50 on clear square 8" with slanted insert.

Blurb from the band:

This band formed us.

A week’s worth of rehearsing for a Giant Sand European tour with Thøger Lund for the upcoming Danish line up, for Autumn 2025 led to this spontaneous creation instead that included newly Tuxoned Bethy Goodfellow.

Like a child meant to stay on course and finish his homework, instead would sneak out between songs needing to be gone over and instantly make up something new without losing the groove masters.

Bethy would call out an old Giant Sand song, like October Anywhere, from the first album back in 1984, and instead of wondering how she was aware of something so ancient and not even on the current rehearsal list of music between 2002 - 2012 with the Danes, we’d dive into it anyway.

And then upon surfacing .. Thøger might be coming up with a new bass line of random notion while Bethy instantly tucks in under it with a wonder beat and Howe then let’s loose with some chords and murmur that even he didn’t know had been lying dormant within until such evoking sonic gathering offers escape of.

And voila. Something unwritten a moment before impact of performance and capture.

A kind of improvisation that’s been looking ever since the get go of musical affiliation in this camp. An understanding that music is most alive when it’s not being copied, as if rehearsing was a big lie of eventual presentation, and instead true conglomeration of affiliates instantly come up with an excitement of instantaneous song combustion without losing the thread.

SLANT CAN

when straight can’t

- Howe Gelb