A saxophonist, composer, writer, editor and Spanish cultural manager who stands out on the European scene of free improvisation, electroacoustic creation, avant-garde jazz and musicological research, he begins his artistic career in the 1980s, forming part of various contemporary instrumental ensembles, jazz collectives and valencian popular music groups. His compositions have been premiered and performed at important international festivals in Portugal, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Sweden, USA, China, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Cuba and Spain.
He is the author of the poems HAIKUS D’ESTIU (EdictOràlia, 2021) and SONS COMPARTITS. Poemes, textos i pretextos (EdictOràlia, 2018); the essay IMPROVISACIÓN LIBRE. El gran juego de la deriva sonora (EdictOràlia, 2017) and compilations of writings like Pianos y pianistas. Dos décadas de crítica musical y otros escritos pianísticos (EdictOràlia, 2020), Emociones sonoras. De la creación electroacústica, la improvisación libre, el arte sonoro y otras músicas experimentales (EdictOràlia, 2020) y Escritos desde la intimidad. Conversaciones, artículos de opinión, notas, reseñas y críticas musicales(EdictOràlia, 2016), as well as numerous articles, reviews, lectures and musicological studies published in books, specialized magazines and the written press. In 2016, it created the publishing seal EdictOràlia Llibres i Publicacions and the label Liquen Records, dedicated to improvised and experimental music.
With more than a hundred and fifty compositions in catalog and fifty discs published, Josep Lluís Galiana has recorded or collaborated for Canal Clásico-RTVE-Vía Digital; RNE-Classical Radio (Ars Sonora), RTVV, RNE-Radio 3 (Atmosphere, Discópolis Jazz), Undae Radio podcasts, Universos Paralelos, Jazz en el aire, Llum de Tunguska, Vericuetos-Radio Kras, Bad Music Jazz, and record labels Marmita-Música Viva, Artics Produccions, AMEE, Desamparats Productions, Sound In, PrimTON Berlin, Luscinia Records, Clamshell Records/Vector Sounds, Alina Records, Seidagasa, Cilestis, ZAWP Records, Discordian Records and Liquen Records.