Halfway Somewhere Galliano

• 1 Brownswood Rockers / Golden Shovel (Somebody Else’s Idea) 01:04
• 2 Limebike Getaway 00:27
• 3 General Rubbish vs The Sportswear Mystics 04:40
• 4 Tottenham 00:20
• 5 Crow Foot Hustling 05:11
• 6 Numbers Click 00:43
• 7 Circles Going Round The Sun 04:22
• 8 Golden Shovel 2 (Somebody Else's Idea) 00:37
• 9 Jazz 04:45
• 10 Halfway Somewhere 00:45
• 11 Of Peace 03:49
• 12 Move As One... 03:45
• 13 In The Breaks 04:49
• 14 57th Min / Power and Glory 06:34
• 15 Kingsland Road 00:25
• 16 Cabin Fever Dub 04:34
• 17 Euston Warehouse 00:40
• 18 Pleasure, Joy & Happiness 04:36
• Total Runtime 52:06

Info for Halfway Somewhere

Almost three decades on from their last release, Acid Jazz forefathers Galliano are back with news of their new album 'Halfway Somewhere' which is being released on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings on 30 August.

On 'Circles Going Round The Sun', the first single to be lifted off their new album, Galliano founder Rob Gallagher meditates on what gathering together in clubs means. "The first time you dance you break boundaries between matter and spirit, self and other, individual and group" he intones on a record that references dance culture sages Andrew Weatherall and David Mancuso next to writer George Mackay Brown and artist Mark Leckey.

Born out of London's underground clubs and warehouse parties of the mid to late eighties, with the debut single on the Acid Jazz label in 1988, Galliano came out of a culture that spanned music, dance, fashion, art, design, and the written word. When they arrived as the first act on Gilles Peterson's Talkin' Loud label in 1990 with 'Welcome to the Story' (produced by Chris Bangs who invented the term Acid Jazz) dressed in Gabicci sweaters, beads and skullcaps they captured a scene built on re-invention. "We were all playing around with what we could get our hands on whether that was a seventies book on Jamaican style or old Last Poets and Watts Prophets records," says Gallagher. "We'd been recycling things for a few years but suddenly everything had coalesced and you've got an amalgam that seemed quite solid."

For their first album since 'Live at The Liquid Room (Tokyo)' in 1997, Rob Gallagher and his partner, vocalist Valerie Etienne, are joined by Galliano stalwarts Ernie McKone on bass, Crispin Taylor on drums, and Ski Oakenfull on keys (with guests including saxophonist Jason Yarde and percussionist Crispin 'Spry' Robinson). Where the old Galliano recycled records they heard at clubs, today they are responding to the kaleidoscopic global jazz scene - from Total Refreshment Centre in London to International Anthem in Chicago.

More than forty years since they came together, Galliano are still only 'Halfway Somewhere', but listening to the album they are obviously having fun getting there. "I think the stars have to be aligned when you redo things," says Gallagher. "Coming at it from this door is very different to the door we came into back then. But once it's existing it is something. But I'm still not sure what that something is." Galliano - Halfway Somewhere

Galliano

Galliano
The first act signed to the groundbreaking acid jazz label Talkin’ Loud, Galliano formed in 1988 around acid house DJ Rob Gallagher but later turned to laid-back and jazzy soul with heavy emphasis on live presentation and environmental issues. A loose collective during its first years, the group comprised Gallagher with raps and turntables, vocalist Valerie Étienne (aka Auntie Val), guitarist Mark Vandergucht, bass player Ernie McKone, drummer Crispin Taylor, keyboard player Mick Talbot (formerly with ), and contributors Brother Spry, Daddy Smith, and, occasionally, . Galliano’s first release was the 1989 single “Frederick Lies Still,” a tender play on the Superfly anthem “Freddie’s Dead” by . The band’s debut full-length, In Pursuit of the 13th Note, followed two years later on Talkin’ Loud. After 1992’s A Joyful Noise Unto the Creator, Galliano received an American contract and released What Colour Our Flag as a basic trainer (the album compiled the best tracks from the first two LPs). The Plot Thickens, issued in 1995, was the group’s proper U.S. debut. A year later, Galliano returned with 4 (Four).

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