Galactic with Guests

New Orleans is a city defined by its unique and colorful history. It’s
for that reason that most tend to view the place as something of a
musical museum while ignoring the town’s vibrant and innovative new
music. In New Orleans, the hip-hop at the heart of today’s culture
emerged from an energetic, highly eroticized and occasionally
gender-bending music called “bounce”. And the truth is, all the town’s
seemingly disparate styles – jazz, brass bands and funk as well as the
newer “bounce” influenced hip hop, are all intrinsically linked. There
is a particular inclusiveness about the place which connects both its
people and their music. And now, for the first time ever, all these
sounds have been combined on one undeniably original record. With
YA-KA-MAY, long time NOLA residents, GALACTIC have made an album that
reflects the city as they see it – blending all the town’s distinctive
sounds in a way no band has before.

YA-KA-MAY is set to be released Feb 9, 2010 on Anti Records. The album
features established legends such as the Rebirth Brass Band, Irma
Thomas, Big Chief Bo Dollis, Allen Toussaint and Walter “Wolfman”
Washington with younger artists like Trombone Shorty and Corey Henry,
John Boutté, Josh Cohen and Scully, and Glen David Andrews, as well as
groundbreaking new “Bounce” artists like Cheeky Blakk, Big Freedia,
Katey Red, and Sissy Nobby. The end result is New Orleans like it’s
truly meant to be heard, and pure GALACTIC.