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Jamiroquai: Traveling without Moving

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Sony Music Entertainement
Released: 1996
Time:
 62:41
Category: Acis Jazz
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.jamiroquai.co.uk
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2008.09.26
Price in €: 7,99



 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Virtual Insanity (Kay/Smith) - 5:40
[2] Cosmic Girl (Kay/McKenzie) - 4:03
[3] Use the Force (Kay/Smith/McKenzie/Akingbola) - 4:00
[4] Everyday (Kay/Smith/Zender) - 4:28
[5] Alright (Kay/Smith) - 4:25
[6] High Times (Kay/Smith/Zender/McKenzie) - 5:58
[7] Drifting Along (Kay/McKenzie/Katz/Zender) - 4:06
[8] Didjerama (Kay/Buchanan/McKenzie) - 3:50
[9] Didjital Vibrations (Kay/Buchanan/Zender) - 5:49
[10] Travelling Without Moving (Kay) - 3:40
[11] You Are My Love (Kay) - 3:55
[12] Spend a Lifetime (Kay/Smith/Zender) - 4:14

Hidden track:
[13] Funktion (Jamiroquai) - 8:27

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Jason Kay - Vocals, Arranger, Producer, String Arrangements
Stuart Zender - Bass
Derrick McKenzie - Drums
Toby Smith - Keyboards
Wallis Buchanan - Didjeridu, Vibraphone, Percussion
Simon Katz - Guitars

Sola Akigbola - Percussion
Simon Hale - Conductor, String Arrangements, Score

M-Beat - Arranger, Producer
Al Stone - Arranger, Producer, Engineer, Mixing
 

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1996 CD Sony Soho Square 483999
2007 CD Sony 88697120702



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 - All Music Guide



Adding pop savvy to their soul-disco mix, Jamiroquai grabbed the attention of MTV and Top 40 radio and won a Grammy with this platinum-selling album, their third. It's a fine record, with warm keyboards, sweet strings, and irrepressible grooves grounding Jay Kay's sublime vocals and fueling the hits ("Virtual Insanity," "Cosmic Girl," the title track). That voice - elastic, jazzy - is the fire of the band, but immaculate guitar sounds, snappy backup vocals, and clever old-school soul samples (Eddie Harris on "Alright," Esther Phillips on "High Times") are the details that create perfection. Balancing the dance-ready, radio-friendly tracks are the ballads "Everyday" and "Spend a Lifetime," the reggae-styled "Drifting Along," and a couple of didjeridoo instrumentals.

Suzanne McElfresh - Amazon.com



With their second album, Travelling Without Moving, Jamiroquai confirm their place as one of the most distinctive ensembles in pop music. An innovative band that's also unabashedly derivative, this British bomb squad incorporates the stylings of such masters as Stevie Wonder, Peter Frampton, Herbie Hancock, and Jimmy Cliff into its own idiosyncratic grooves. Thus, this trippy, modern disc is a hodgepodge of everything cool from dance music's golden ages. Deee-Lite succeeded in a similar quest for a while, but Jamiroquai give themes of hedonism, love, drugs, and immortality a sonic substance that's as inspiring as Earth, Wind and Fire's strong and singular sound. In typical fashion, the hectic title track leaps and hustles, taking off from an intense Booker T. and the MG's-type groove. The "Sir Duke"-esque "Virtual Insanity," house-y "Cosmic Girl," and late-'70s-Curtis-Mayfield-inducing "Alright" are the obvious hits of the record, though the crew's eclectic sensibilities are showcased on the instrumental tracks "Didjerama" and "Digital Vibrations." Led by Jay Kay's fluid vocals, Jamiroquai triumph in bringing a live feel to an album that, both impressionistic and forward-looking, personifies the postmodern pastiche.

Martine Bury - Barnes & Noble



A visit from the Space Cowboy continues to be one of the most singular experiences in popular music. Even though Jamiroquai always has either environmental, social or, in some cases, otherworldly issues to address in his music, he rarely allows it to reflect the troubles on his mind. Often compared to the work of Stevie Wonder, Jamiroquai's music is a silky blend of unmistakably soulful, club-flavored songs infused with prime disco stylings that ignore today's trends, yet when such familiar designs are digested, they're so disarming that they make you forget that the record could be from 25 years ago. Travelling Without Moving is very similar to his previous two albums: the disco may get heavy on "Cosmic Girl" (still have those old roller skates?) and "Alright," but Jamiroquai rides the time-waves well. seamlessly stirring in jazz, live jungle jazz ("Bonus Track"). and, surprisingly, reggae on "Drifting Alone," which the band performs as effortlessly as anything else in their bag. The instrumental "Didjerama" sounds like a ritualistic exhibition from deep inside a tropical rain forest, as the sounds of a didjeridoo take center stage, while the lush, sentimental string arrangements on the love song "Spend A Lifetime" make it as thick and powerful as anything by Wonder or Danny Hathaway. Travelling is both Jamiroquai's most experimental and best album.

Glen Sansone - Nov 10, 2000
CMJ.com
 

 L y r i c s

Virtual Insanity

Oh yeah, what we’re living in, let me tell ya
It is a wonder man can eat at all
When things are big that should be small
Who can tell what magic spells we’ll be doing for us
And I’m giving all my love to this world
Only to be told
I can’t see, I can’t breathe
No more will we be
And nothing’s going to change the way we live
’Cause we can always take but never give
And now that things are changing for the worse
See, whoa, it’s a crazy world we’re living in
And I just can’t see that half of us immersed in sin
Is all we have to give these

Futures made of virtual insanity now
Always seem to be governed by this love we have for
Useless, twisting, of the new technology
Oh now there is no sound, for we all live underground

And I’m thinking what a mess we’re in
Hard to know where to begin
If I could slip the sickly ties that earthly man has made
And now every mother can choose the colour of her child
That’s not nature’s way
Well that’s what they said yesterday
There’s nothing left to do but pray
I think it’s time to find a new religion
Whoa, It’s so insane
To synthesize another strain
There’s something in these
Futures that we have to be told

Futures made of virtual insanity now
Always seem to be governed by this love we have for
useless, twisting, of the new technology
Oh now there is no sound, for we all live underground

Now there is no sound if we all live underground
And now it's virtual insanity
Forget your virtual reality
Oh, there's nothing so bad
As a man-made man, oh yeah, I know yeah
Ooh

Futures made of virtual insanity now
Always seem to be governed by this love we have for
Useless, twisting, of the new technology
Oh now there is no sound, for we all live underground

Now this life that we live in
It's so wrong
Shout out the window
Do you know that
There is nothing worse than a man-made man
Still there's nothing worse than a foolish man, hey

Virtual insanity is what we're living in
Yeah, it is alright


Cosmic Girl

[Verse 1]
I've must have died and gone to heaven
Cos it was a quarter past eleven
On a Saturday in 1999
Right across on where I'm standing
On a dance floor she was landing
It was clear that she was from another time
Like some Baby Barbarella with the stars as her umbrella
She asked me if i'd like to magnetise
Do I have to go star-trekking
Cos it's you I should be checking
So she laser beamed me with her cosmic eyes
Oh now,

[Chorus]
She's just a cosmic girl (Oh yeah) from another galaxy
My heart's at zero gravity
She's from a cosmic world (Wow wah-wah-wah)
Putting me in ectasy (ooh)
Transmitting on my frequency (Wow wah-wah-wah)
She's cosmic

[Verse 2]
I'm scanning all my radars
Well she said she's from a quasar
Forty thousand million light years away
It's a distant solar system
I tried to phone but they don't list em
So I asked her for a number all the same
She said, step in my transporter so I can teleport ya
All around my heavenly body
Oh, this could be a close encounter
I should take care not to flounder
Sends me into hyperspace when I see her pretty face

[Chorus]
She's just a cosmic girl from another galaxy
My heart's at zero gravity
She's from a cosmic world (Woah)(wah-wah-wah)
Putting me in ectasy
Transmitting on my frequency (Oh wah-wah-wah)
She's cosmic
(Sends me into hyperspace when I see her pretty face)x9

[Outro]
She's just a cosmic girl (Aah)
From another galaxy (Ooh)
Transmitting on my frequency (Aah)
Yeah cosmic, oh
Can't you be my cosmic woman? (Aah)
I need you, I want you (Aah)
to be my cosmic girl for the rest of time (Aah)
(fade)Oh, i'm loosing my mind on my cosmic girl
Yeah !


Use the Force

I must believe
I can do anything
I can heal anyone
I must believe

I am the wind (yeah)
I am the sea
I am the wind
I am the sea
I am the sun
I can be anyone

Oh this world is mine
For all of time
I can turn any stone
Call any place my home
I can do anything

I know I'm gonna get myself together (yeah)
Use the Force
I know I'm gonna work it out
Use the force
I know I'm gonna get myself ahead
Use the Force
Use the Force

I can go eagle high
Circling in the sky
Learn to live my life
I don't need no strife

I must believe
I'm a rocketman
I'm a superstar
I can be anyone
I can step beyond
All of my boundaries
It won't be hard for me
To fell what there must be

I know I'm gonna get myself together (yeah)
Use the Force
I know I'm gonna work it out
Use the force
I know I'm gonna get myself ahead
Use the Force
Use the Force
I can do it
I can do anything
Anything Anything
   

Everyday

Yes I do
Baby, maybe, we can spend a little time together now that we're alone
So long I have been waiting
Now can't you let me take you home

All these things we do
Will make our dreams come true
You want me, and I surely want you
Tell me where you want to go
Tell me what I need to know
To take you on a little ride

Hold me, control me
Let me circumnavigate your body mind and soul
Like a, seed from a flower
I can grow and you must know
Sadness, don't mean a thing
Cos you and me girl,
You know we're in the swing,
All the things that I want to get with
You on a midsummer night
In the evening light
The sweet evening light

All these things we do
Will make our dreams come true
I want you, you want me
I surely need you baby
And so far what we've done
Has made our lives become
Something more than
Evening light to make it right

All, all I want from you baby,
Is sweet loving now,
No, I know, yes, I know
I know what I want from you girl
We can make it right
We can hold onto each other tight
Lose your inhibitions
Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh

Every little thing we do is right
Every little thing you see is sweet
Every little part of you I'd like to meet
I want you girl, you know I want you
I want you in the evening light


Alright

I need your love (x10)
You give me light
So tonight take me there
I feel your sun
Start to glow and I know it
Let me show you that
I want your love
I need your touch
For the rest of our time together baby
Come fly with me, eternally
You and me
We were meant to be

Yeah hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together wake up and live forever
Yeah hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together wake up and live forever
Yeah hey
Woo hoo hoo. its alright now.

I see your eyes,
Hold the keys to my paradise
Summer in your smile
Well it makes me feel so real so real
You tell me things
And my heart sings to the world,
From the islands in the sky
Take my hand as one we will stand
You know it's now or never
To say hello to forever

Yeah hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together wake up and live forever (x4)
Yeah hey

I need your touch,
I want your love so much
I need your touch &
I want your love so much
Oh now, tonight,
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever


High Times

You don't need your name in bright lights
You're a rock star
And some thin foil with a glass pipe
Is your guitar, now yes it is
Little Angela suffers delusions
From these high times
She's been cleaning up,
Since she was fourteen
On the main line
And her hunky funky junky,
Of a boyfriend
Got her on late nights
With her skirt tight
Woah she's a wild thing, letting it all swing
God bless our high times

Don't you know that last night
Turned to daylight
And a minute became a day
Last night
All my troubles
Well they seemed so, so far away
Searching my reflection
For a glimpse of, an other me
I've got to get away from these high times
All these high high times
Cause these hight times
are killing me

This twisted crystal kingdom
Where you live your nine lives
And your head spins
With purple cyclones made of dexadrine
And when the phone rings
You think bad things
Well these are high high
High high times yeah
In any backstreet when you take a hot seat
Make sure you check your flight times
Oh now mama

Don't you know that last night
Turned to daylight
And a minute became a day
Last night
All my troubles
Well they seemed so, so far away
Searching my reflection
For a glimpse of, an other me
I've got to get away from these high times
All these high high times
Cause these hight times
are killing me

Now drop it this time

Paranoia will destroy ya
Paranoia will destroy ya
Paranoia will destroy ya
Paranoia
Paranoia

Don't you know that last night
Turned to daylight
And a minute became a day
Last night
All my troubles
Well they seemed so, so far away
Searching my reflection
For a glimpse of, an other me
I've got to get away from these high times
All these high high times
Cause these hight times
are killing me

La la la la la
High Times (oh yeah)
We're living in high high high times yeah


Drifting Along

Nowhere to go
But I'll still be cruising
I live this life long
Long long time

You know I'm drifting along
Can't see where I'm going
I will get to my destination

I'm feeling the pressure
All around me crumble
But I won't be put down this time

I'm shifting along
Though I sing a sweet song
We'll murder in the streets where I be livin'

I'm closing my eyes
Don't want to see killin'
Gentle giants will roam forever

I'm cruising the street
Wondering who I will meet
Oh love has got to
Reign in our world

La la la la
La la la la
I don't know where I am going to

La la la la
La la la la
I don't know where I am going to
Drifting along

Drifting along
Closing up my ears
to the sound
I don't want to hear crying


Didjeradama

Instrumental


Didjital Vibrations

Instrumental


Travelling without moving

(The song begins with Jay driving a Lamborghini Diablo SE30)

Get down, right on, get down

I know all we're doing is travelling without moving
hey hey
I know all we're doing is travelling without moving
Can't stop, no
I know all we're doing is travelling without moving
Yeah yeah
I know all we're doing is travelling

Speed freak
Faster than a speedin' bullet,
Slow down, if I don't,
If I don't I might just lose it
Locked up
You've got me honey
Locked up under heavy braking
yeah yeah
You know I've got to hang on
Drive too fast I might be last
oh yeah

I know all we're doing is travelling without moving
Oh yeah
I know all we're doing is travelling without moving
Wo yeah
I know all we're doing is travelling without moving
Oh yeah
I know all we're doing is travelling without moving
Wo yeah

I know all we're doing is travelling without moving
Oh yeah
I know all we're doing is travelling without moving
(repeat and fade)


Your are my love

Oh man let me tell you a little story about a heartbreaker
Honey, I don’t know why you treat me so bad
Well I tried so hard to make you see it my way
Just think of all the good times we had
But still you only ever want to fight with me (Ohwa)

We got to split apart before we kill
And start to put our minds together
We got to change this hell for leather world
And I will find myself another girl
We got to put our weapons down
And spread a little love around

You know you are my love (yes you are)
You are my love Oh, yes you are, (heh heh)
You are my love (yes you are)
You are my love (yes you are)

(Woo Hoo Hoo Hoo)
Ain’t you the girl who did me wrong behind my back
And you tried to keep me double-booked
We never seem to cross the tracks
And there’s so much that you overlooked about me girl
Remember, you sat down pretty on the windowsill,
And made me swallow on your bitter pill
You thought the grass was greener over there
While serpents serpents snaked around your hair
So pour a vitriolic coffee cup
And use your blackened heart to fill it up
Well now honey we get to put our weapons down
And spread a little love around

You are my love
I want you girl, I need you so (I need you so)
Now we know that it’s no secret
You are my love, you are my world
Light my shadows, fill the heavens with stars

You're my love, you are my love, you are my lover
I need ya, I want you
Don’t let me go, I need you so <Repeat and fade>


Spend a lifetime

Touch me in the night time
All I want from you is love
And I know you can give me such sweet moments
To last me so long
Cos, you make me feel so strong

All I want to do is spend a lifetime with you, baby
Make it happen
All I want to do is spend a lifetime with you, baby
Oh girl
All I want to do is spend a lifetime with you, baby

Cos you make me feel that good
And nothing else matters
Until you are in my arms girl
And all those broken promises we made to each other
We have so much more to give
I know that we can do this
That's how I want to live
Eternally, together

All I want to do is spend a lifetime with you, baby
All I want to do is spend a lifetime with you, baby

Will you make it happen for us now
Please this time
You know I need your touch honey
I want your touch honey
Like the morning sun has just begun
Girl, like the rain on my window pane
Girl, if I could make you stay
More than one day
Eternally together
Oh, girl I need your touch
Oh, girl I want your loving
Sweet, you know that we can make it happen
For you and for me to be
And eternally together we will be


Funktion

What are we gonna do tonight?
We should go to a funktion
You know I love it
Come on and let me get through
I need to put in on you
You got me hooked up, baby
You know it's breakin' my mind
I want your body all the time
Delicious - she drives me crazy
The perfume that you wear
Seems to hang in the air
It's boogalicious
And while that DJ's bustin' grooves
I've been makin' all the moves to taste your kisses
You know, honey ...

We're going to a funktion - yeah, yeah, yeah
(Yeah, party people, get down)
We're going to a funktion - yeah, yeah, yeah
We're going to a funktion - yeah, yeah, yeah
(Come on - like dat)
We're going to a funktion - yeah, yeah, yeah

You know we're going to a party
It don't take much to start me
I'm a f-f-freakin'
Some people get their kicks
When their shirts begin to stick
In a sweatdown (I got to get down)
Why don't you come on with me, lady?
I don't want to hear your maybes
I wanna get sexual
Girl, you got the body of a goddess
And I want you at your hottest
Oooh, you wanna be my queen?(Let's hit the scene)

Come on to the funktion - yeah, yeah, yeah
We're going to a funktion - yeah, yeah, yeah
We're going to a funktion - yeah, yeah, yeah
(Now come on and drop it for me - like diz!!)

We're gonna paint the town red
And then I'm takin' you to bed
To spend the nighttime
And now that rhythm is complete
You got the world at your feet
You're outtasight!!
You don't have to be suggestive
I just want to get connected
At the party, party
Why don't you groove down with me?
And join my funky family
Oooh, you know

We're going to a funktion - yeah, yeah, yeah
We're going to a funktion - yeah, yeah, yeah
We're going to a funktion - yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm going to a funktion - yeah, yeah, yeah

Now put your zoot suit on
Because we've got to move along
And we're gonna go dancing
These are disco nights
And the moon is right
For romancing
You know you're gonna dig it
But you just can't help to swing it
To the music
Now all the girls grab a guy
And the guys grab a thigh
So get loose

We're going to a funktion - yeah, yeah, yeah
Get down to the funktion - yeah, yeah, yeah
I'll meet you at the funky junction - yeah, yeah, yeah
We're going to a funktion - yeah, yeah, yeah
Now let me hear my man drop it, ah this time, ah just
Now bring it on back, come on, just oooh

- Funky improvisation -

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