Galliano (band)

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Galliano (band)

Galliano was a London

London

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based acid jazz

Acid jazz

Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly Music loop beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic music dance/pop music: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers and Donald Byrd are often credited as forerunners of aci...
group, which started up in 1988. The group was the first signing to Eddie Piller

Eddie Piller

Eddie Piller is an England Disc jockey and record label entrepreneur.Starting his career in the 1980s as a part of the England mod revival, Piller launched the underground fanzine Extraordinary Sensations and operated as a DJ and concert promoter....
and Gilles Peterson

Gilles Peterson

Gilles Peterson is a DJ, Record_collecting#Notable_record_collectors and record label owner from London, United Kingdom.Through his labels Acid Jazz Records, Talkin' Loud, and latterly Brownswood Recordings, he has been associated with the careers of countless well-known artists of the 1990s such as Erykah Badu and Tony Rich plus Jamiroqu...
's Talkin' Loud

Talkin' Loud

Talkin' Loud is a record label started by Gilles Peterson at Phonogram in 1990 after he left Acid Jazz. The label name is based on Peterson's club night "Talkin' Loud And Sayin' Something."...
label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
. The original members were Rob Gallagher (vocals), Constantine Weir (vocals), and Crispin Robinson (percussion). Other important members include Valerie Etienne, who participated in the recording

Sound recording and reproduction

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of all their CDs

Compact Disc

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, along with other musician

Musician

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s such as Mick Talbot

Mick Talbot

Michael 'Mick' Talbot is a keyboardist. He played with the late 1970s Mod Revival The Merton Parkas; Dexys Midnight Runners; The Bureau, and later with Paul Weller in The Style Council....
on keyboards, Crispin Taylor on drums and Ernie McKone on bass guitar.

Galliano achieved the peak of its success in 1994 with The Plot Thickens, a major work that fuses the extreme harmonies and rhythms of jazz with up-to-the-minute urban soul on tracks such as "Twyford Down", with its numerous changes of tempo, or "Travels the Road" and "Long Time Gone".

Frontman Rob Gallagher continues to perform (as of 2005/2006) as Earl Zinger.

Galliano provided the track used in the title sequence of the 1997 Samuel L Jackson film One Eight Seven
One Eight Seven

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