{"product_id":"galliano-halfway-somewhere-cd","title":"Galliano - Halfway Somewhere (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails: \u003c\/strong\u003eAlmost 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. 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrownswood Rockers \/ Golden Shovel (Someone Else’s Idea)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Dancin’ Your Own Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Limebike Gettaway\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e General Rubbish vs The Sportswear Mystics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Tottenham\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Crow Foot Hustling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Numbers Click\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Circles Going Round The Sun\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Golden Shovel 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Jazz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Halfway Somewhere\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Of Peace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Move As One\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e In The Brakes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 57th Min \/ Power and Glory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Kingsland Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cabin Fever Dub\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Euston Warehouse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pleasure Joy ; Happiness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50445826818322,"sku":"5060180326630","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/4363494.jpg?v=1729704124","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/galliano-halfway-somewhere-cd","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}