Galliano – ‘Halfway Somewhere’ Album Release Live Show!

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//Brownswood//

 

Join us on Thursday 5th September at 1:00pm for a super intimate instore show & Signing session, as we celebrate the new album “Halfway Somewhere” On Brownswood records

 

 

*All formats will be collected before the instore performance* This acts as your ticket. We’ll send more entry details nearer to the time of the show.

 

Please select ‘click & collect’ if you don’t want this item posted.

 

One Purchase Per Person for Entry.

 

If you have ordered the Dinked Edition, you will be invited to the show. Get the Dinked Edition HERE

 

Ticket Bundles are:

 

£32.99 – Limited Edition Double Blue Vinyl & Entry to the Instore Show

 

£28.99 – Black Double Vinyl & Entry to the Instore Show

 

£12.99 – CD & Entry to the Instore Show

 

This is an ‘instore show’, designed to encourage purchasing physical copies of the new album.

 

Each copy you purchase, will be ‘chart’ scanned by us in the shop and will help the artist and band reach a high chart position. 

 

This has many benefits for the band, and means that as a fan – you helped contribute to that success!

 

As a record shop, we want to encourage the culture of buying physical music and also means we can host more of these amazing intimate shows!

 

More on the new record below…

 

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

 

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 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.”