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Jamiroquai - High Times Singles (2006)

2010-03-01T22:06:50Z

Jamiroquai - High Times Singles (2006)


1."When You Gonna Learn" (3:49)
2."Too Young to Die" (3:23)
3."Blow Your Mind" (3:56)
4."Emergency on Planet Earth" (3:37)
5."Space Cowboy" (3:37)
6."Virtual Insanity" (3:49)
7."Cosmic Girl" (3:47)
8."Alright" (3:42)
9."Deeper Underground"
10."Canned Heat"
11."Little L"
12."Love Foolosophy"
13."Corner of the Earth"
14."Feels Like it Should"
15."Seven Days in Sunny June"
16."(Don't) Give Hate a Chance"
17."Runaway"
18."Radio"

Gavin Edmonds - String Arrangements
Simon Hale - String Conductor, String Score
Jamiroquai 	
Matt Johnson -  Producer
Jay Kay 	- Arranger, Bass (Vocal), Mixing, Producer, String Arrangements, String Writing, Synthesizer, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Mike Neilson - Audio Production, Mixing, Producer
T. Smith - Producer, String Arrangements, String Writing

Collecting most of Jamiroquai's singles since lead singer Jay Kay first donned a large furry buffalo hat for the band's 1992 debut, Emergency on Planet Earth, High Times: Singles 1992-2006 is a superb listen and a great summation of what has made the retro-futurist funk band so successful. Sure, High Times doesn't include every single they released -- the fantastic "Light Years" and "You Give Me Something" aren't included -- and admittedly it was largely put together to fulfill and finish off Jamiroquai's contract with Sony. Nonetheless, as an encapsulation of what makes Jamiroquai such a phenomenal pop-funk-dance entity, it's an infectiously listenable affair. Running chronologically through the most recognizable singles Kay and company have released, High Times is easily the best collection of Jamiroquai tunes on one disc and hits all of the most memorable tracks off each of the group's albums. Included are such well-known tracks as "Virtual Insanity" (the band's breakthrough single) and "Cosmic Girl," as well as such similarly catchy and funky cuts as the didgeridoo-driven "When You Gonna Learn," the blissed-out "Space Cowboy," and the latter-day would-be disco classic "Little L." Also included are two new recordings, "Runaway" and "Radio," that solidly stand on their own pop merits. ---Mattt Collar, Rovi

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Jamiroquai - Rock Dust Light Star (2010)

2010-11-18T12:19:14Z

Jamiroquai - Rock Dust Light Star (2010)


01 - Rock Dust Light Star 4:40
02 - White Knuckle Ride 3:35        play
03 - Smoke And Mirrors 4:31
04 - All Good In The Hood 3:37       play
05 - Hurtin 4:17
06 - Blue Skies 3:52
07 - Lifeline 4:40
08 - Shes A Fast Persuader 5:17
09 - Two Completely Different Things 4:26
10 - Goodbye To My Dancer 4:07
11 - Never Gonna Be Another 4:08
12 - Hey Floyd 5:09

Personnel
* Vocals: Jay Kay
* Drums: Derrick McKenzie
* Percussion: Sola Akingbola
* Guitar: Rob Harris
* Keyboards: Matt Johnson
* Bass: Paul Turner
* Background vocals: Hazel Fernandez & Valerie Etienne
* Saxes & flute: James Russell
* Saxes: Jim Corry
* Trumpet & flugel: Malcolm Strachan
* Strings: Simon Hale

Coming a half-decade after 2005's Dynamite, 2010's Rock Dust Light Star finds Jamiroquai and its frontman, Jay Kay, trying to re-ignite the funk machine by heading back to its rock and organic soul roots. In that sense, Rock Dust retains much of the black-light disco power that made such previous singles as "Little L" from 2001's A Funk Odyssey and "Feels Just Like it Should" from Dynamite such dancefloor burners. However, the album is a bit of a grower, with Kay evincing more of an interest in knotty, long-form funk numbers that take their sweet time to reach their inevitable, euphorically funky pop pinnacle. Nonetheless, Kay, having entered his forties, doesn't seem to be letting up on the disco gas -- nor the literal kind as the helicopter and Porsche-sploitation video for the funky slick single "White Knuckle Ride" proves. Still, Kay has revealed more of a passion for laid-back, acoustic guitar-driven tracks, and the mid-album ballad "Blue Skies" is perhaps the best one he's ever written. The more booty-minded faithful get a bevy of tracks including the aforementioned "White Knuckle Ride," as well as the Jazz Crusaders-sounding "Smoke and Mirrors" featuring a muscular saxophone solo outro. Elsewhere, Kay delves into the bluesy slow-burn acid rock of "Hurtin'," which takes its time to build to a wicked, soulful climax, and then the oft-headdressed singer goes all '80s robot-disco-funk on the Jaco Pastorius bass-inspired "She's a Fast Persuader." Ultimately, with the album's mix of horns, various percussion instruments, piano, and a general live-in-studio vibe combined with a mature "deep cut" songwriting approach, Rock Dust Light Star does bring to mind the more full-band sound of Jamiroquai's early acid jazz albums and goes a long way toward reestablishing Kay as a uniquely talented and legitimate heir to the '70s funk throne. ---Matt Collar, Rovi

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Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving (1996)

2010-01-31T12:28:43Z

Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving (1996)


1. Virtual Insanity 
2. Cosmic Girl 
3. Use the Force 
4. Everyday 
5. Alright
6. High Times 
7. Drifting Along 
8. Didjerama 	
9. Didjital Vibrations 	
10. Travelling Without Moving 
11. You Are My Love 	
12. Spend a Lifetime
13. Do You Know Where You're Coming From

Simon Hale - Conductor, Score, String Arrangements
Jamiroquai 
Jason Kay - Arranger, Producer, String Arrangements
M-Beat - Arranger, Producer
Al Stone - Mixing, Producer
Stuart Zender - Bass

Travelling Without Moving deepens the acid jazz and '70s soul fusions of Return of the Space Cowboy, yet it doesn't have the uniform consistency of its predecessor. Nevertheless, Jamiroquai's fusions sound more fully realized with each outing, which makes its patchy songwriting forgivable. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

A few new wrinkles are revealed on Jamiroquai's third album: The acid-jazzy dance band gets a reggae thing going on "Drifting Along," while use of the group's beloved didgeridoo is limited primarily to the tracks that allude to the instrument's name ("Didjerama," "Didjital Vibrations"). But for the most part, Travelling Without Moving just sounds an awful lot like its predecessors, with lots of fluid, jazzy jams; socially conscious (read: unbearable) lyrics about the world we're livin' in and why we should love each other; another earnest Stevie Wonder imitation by singer Jay Kay; and cover art that makes tired use of the same tired band logo. It's a tribute to Jamiroquai that more of the same still sounds pretty damned good. ---Stephen Thompson, avclub.com

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Jamiroquai – Vibrations – London 1997

2009-12-31T15:22:12Z

Jamiroquai – Vibrations – London 1997


01. Hooked Up (5:31) 
02. Emergency on Planet Earth (3:32) 
03. Space Cowboy / Slippin 'n' Slidin' (11:54) 
04. Cosmic Girl (8:10) 
05. Journey to Arnhemland / Didjital Vibrations (3:53) 
06. Hollywood Swinging (6:31) 
07. Alright (4:53) 
08. Travelling Without Moving (6:20) 
09. Virtual Insanity (3:55)

Recorded Live at Royal Albert Hall, London on November 1997

Jason Kay - Vocals 
Derrick McKenzie - Drums 
Stuart Zender - Bass 
Sola Akimbola - Percussion 
Toby Smith - Keyboards 
Simon Katz - Guitar 
Winston Rollins - Trombone 
Martin Shaw - Trumpet 
Adrian Revell - Flute / Saxaphone 
DJ DZire - Turntables 
Wallace Buchanan – Didgeridoo

Jamiroquai are a hugely popular British acid jazz / jazz-funk band. They rose to fame as a component of the 1990s acid jazz scene, along with bands such as Galliano, the James Taylor Quartet, Corduroy and the Brand New Heavies. The band has sold more than 35 million albums across the globe and are perhaps best recognized by their frontman, Jay Kay, recognizable for his style of dancing, as well as his outlandish headwear.

Jamiroquai was originally formed by Jay Kay on vocals, Toby Smith on keyboards), Nick Van Gelder (drums), Wallis Buchanan (digeridoo) and Stuart Zender (bass). However, the band's cast has altered several times along the years, with the core members being Jay Kay and drummer Derick McKenzie. Jay Kay is very much viewed as the focal point of the band, to the extent that many people are under the impression that 'Jamiroquai' is the name of a solo act.

In 1992, Jamiroquai's debut single, 'When You Gonna Learn?' was released on the Acid Jazz label. The success of the single led to Jamiroquai signing an eight-album deal with Sony BMG Music Entertainment. Their debut album with the major label was Emergency on Planet Earth, released in 1993.

The following year, they released The Return of the Space Cowboy, with the lead single, 'Space Cowboy', receiving a great deal of mainstream airplay and press attention.

Despite having gained huge popularity in the UK and Europe, it was not until the release of Travelling Without Moving in 1996 that the band achieved their international breakthrough. The album spawned another two massive hit singles for Jamiroquai: 'Virtual Insanity' and 'Cosmic Girl'. The popularity of 'Virtual Insanity' was due in part to the innovative video directed by Jonathan Glazer.

In 2003, Jamiroquai were asked to contribute a compilation for the 'Late Night Tales' series, which included tracks from their influences, such as The Commodores, The Pointer Sisters and Johnny 'Guitar' Watson.

In 1999, Jamiroquai released their next studio album, Synkronized, followed by their fifth album, A Funk Odyssey in 2001. Despite the fact that the band's sound had evolved so much by this point - with critics arguing that they had lost the sound that made them recognizable and unique - the lead single from the fifth album, 'Little L' reached number one in many worldwide charts.

The sixth album from Jamiroquai, Dynamite, was released in the summer of 2005 and reached number 3 in the UK charts. The following year, the band released a greatest hits selection, entitled High Times: Singles 1992-2006, thus ending their contract with Sony. Jay Kay stated that they merely released this compilation in order to fulfill their contractual obligation to Sony and be released from their contract.

Jamiroquai's live performance at Abbey Road studios was broadcast on Channel 4 in 2006, along with performances by Damien Rice and the Goo Goo Dolls. After leaving Sony, Jamiroquai signed a deal with Columbia Records.

Recording for a new album began in 2008, but as of July 2010, only one new track from the band had been played live, despite drummer Derrick McKenzie stating in an interview that over 40 tracks had been written and recorded. In April 2010, Jay Kay announced that the band would be supporting Stevie Wonder. Eventually, the release of the new album was confirmed to be in November 2010 and that the title of the album would be Rock Dust Light Star. The lead single 'White Knuckle Ride' was debuted on the Chris Moyles Show (presented that day by Vernon Kay). --- contactmusic.com

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