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Jamiroquai A Funk Odyssey Epic Records
Jamiroquai’s fifth studio album, A Funk Odyssey, was released last week in typical Jamiroquai style, going straight to number one on Billboard.com’s Top Electronic Albums Chart. There is obviously something in Jay Kay’s infectious disco-funk grooves that people seem happy to keep coming back for again and again. The big question is, does it just sound the same as the rest of Jamiroquai’s music? Listening to the new album, these fears are almost immediately assuaged. Not because it’s a brilliant shift of direction...
...almost everything is played by himself, from flute to nylon guitar. The album might have benefited from the presence of some words (perhaps even delivered by a Beastie?) but that would have detracted from the monolithic simplicity of the groove, in which the keyboard (or Korg Triton, or arp odyssey synth, or whatever) is king...
...Area before serving as the New Yorker's film critic from 1968 until her retirement in 1991 (with a one-year break for a fling at Hollywood producing). In her colloquial, compulsively readable prose, she punctured the pretensions of arty classics from Hiroshima, Mon Amour to 2001: A Space Odyssey; championed such American filmmakers as Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma and Robert Altman; hailed Last Tango in Paris as a cultural event to rival Stravinsky's Rite of Spring; and celebrated the appeal of pop American moviemaking, where "trash" (a favorite term of praise) often gave more pleasure than...
...think about museum curators is to imagine those giant black slabs in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Picture offstage mentors who direct the rest of us in our evolution toward higher awareness. At the shows they organize you see what they choose for you to see, along paths they lay out. You just don't notice their holding your hand...