Galliano

Formed in London in 1987, Galliano is one of the pioneering groups of the acid jazz movement of the 1990s. Led by DJ Rob Gallagher (born Roberto Galliano) aka Earl Zinger, the group was the first to be signed to Gilles Peterson and Eddie Piller's Talkin' Loud label. After a first single based on a Curtis Mayfield sample, "Frederic Lies Still" (1988), Galliano unveiled a new musical identity with his debut album In Pursuit of the 13th Note (1991), produced by Chris Bangs and followed by A Joyful Noise Unto the Creator, which reached number 28 in the UK charts in 1992. at the height of their success, the collective's popularity spread to North America, where their follow-up album The Plot Thickens was released by Verve Records in 1995. The song "Long Time Gone", a David Crosby cover, reached #13 in the UK, before the release of the remix album The Thicker Plot: Remixes 93-94. Released in 1996, the fourth album :4 saw its single "Slack Hands" used by director Kevin Reynolds in his film One Eight Seven. On tour throughout Asia, Galliano took advantage of one of his concerts to record the live album Live at the Liquid Room (Tokyo) (1997), before splitting up. Rob Gallagher then formed Two Banks of Four and devoted himself to numerous sessions with acid jazz disciples, while singer Valerie Etienne tried her hand at solo work. In 2023, the two reunited to announce the reformation of Galliano, who reunited with Gilles Peterson on the Brownswood Recordings label to record the album Halfway Somewhere (2024).