Word: jamiroquai
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vaux: I like music that everyone else hates, like Journey, Chicago, Yes, and King Crimson. Among the new bands, I really like Jamiroquai. I also listen to a lot of jazz guitar (George Benson, John Pizzarelli) and Armenian folk music...
...fact, the album calls to mind a litany of role models, with Trickyesque trip-hop rhythms and a funky bass that resembles Jamiroquai. The filtered vocals and heavy bass undercurrents of "Ironspy" could come right out of Portishead. While Splashdown's sound is not fully coherent, Melissa Kaplan displays a wide range on vocals that is at times beautiful, and if the group can manage to unify their sound, they may produce a stronger album. For the moment, this exploratory album gets...
Debate team is so high school. Someone always gets a bloody lip in intramural ultimate frisbee. The president of the Bach Society refuses to experiment with Jamiroquai. But an eternity of classes, WB teen dramas and pickup ball at the MAC is hardly a satisfying stand-in for a non-existent love life. Steer clear of the Zolaf scene, and head for the extracurriculars. But this semester, venture beyond the mainstream and mundane...
...days of the downhill, when some of the top guns, notably the men, would get so psyched up they'd walk into the woods to throw up before a race. Picabo, by contrast, can be seen near the starting gate with headphones on, and some dance music by Jamiroquai piping into her nervous system, her limbs swinging through a warmup. While she admits that a few things in life do scare her--including the dark, which she fends off with a night-light--going fast is rarely one of them. "There's no room for fear with speed," she says...
Glazer's video for Jamiroquai is less flashy but nonetheless eye catching. The band is mostly unknown in the States; its current album, Traveling Without Moving, is a mere echo of stronger, tighter, better American R. and B. from the '70s. Virtual Insanity, a rant against technology that draws heavily, if not entirely successfully, on Stevie Wonder for musical inspiration, is the only truly catchy song on the album. In the video we see Jamiroquai's singer, Jay Kay, standing alone in a mostly empty room. The floor seems to move as he dances, sings and poses; furniture appears...