Galliano emerged in the London underground as a live party band in the mid to late 1980s, recording their albums for the legendary London acid jazz imprint Talkin’ Loud. The band’s world came from an open, multidisciplinary culture that embraced music, dance, fashion, art, design and poetry.
Galliano’s debut, ‘Welcome to the Story’, was released in 1990 by Gilles Peterson’s Talkin’ Loud (produced by Chris Bangs, who also coined the acid jazz genre) and immediately became the next big thing on the British scene, thanks to their unique and unconventional style. ‘We in the band were playing with what we could get our hands on, whether it was a 1970s Jamaican style book or old Last Poets and Watts Prophets records,’ says Rob Gallagher. We took over each other’s style and work for a few years, but suddenly it all came together and we either got something new, different, unique, our own band.’
Almost thirty years after their last album, the godfathers of Acid Jazz return to the scene of the crime with a highly anticipated new album, anticipated by the single ‘Circles Going Round The Sun’. Rob Gallagher, Galliano’s founder and leader, says about the new album: ‘The first time you dance you break the boundaries between matter and spirit, self and others, individual and group.’ This Is Pop? today’s song of the day is here for you.
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