Traveling Without Moving

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Traveling Without Moving
Studio album by Jamiroquai

Publication
(s)

September 9, 1996

Label (s) Work records

Format (s)

LP , CD

Genre (s)

Acid jazz , pop-funk

Title (number)

12 (14)

running time

59m 07s

occupation Jay Kay : Singing
Stuart Zender : Bass
Simon Katz : Guitar
Derrick McKenzie : Drums
Wallis Buchanan : Didgeridoo
Toby Smith : Keyboard
Simon Hale : Orchestration

production

Jay Kay

chronology
The Return of the Space Cowboy (1994) Traveling Without Moving Synkronized (1999)

Traveling Without Moving is the third music album by the British band Jamiroquai , on which the internationally known hit Virtual Insanity was released and which is considered the most successful work of the band. It entered the charts in Germany on September 23, 1996 and reached number nine. In total, the album stayed in the German album charts for 52 weeks. In Great Britain it rose to number two and in the USA to number 24 of the official charts.

The album

The album has a more diverse sound than the previous albums with several instrumental pieces, a greater electronic influence, e.g. B. to "Alright", and represents a mixture of synthetic sounds and touches of acid jazz.

The album produced two big chart hits with the singles Virtual Insanity and Cosmic Girl , with which Jamiroquai also asserted itself on the US market. The video for Virtual Insanity with a seemingly moving floor won awards for Best Video, Best Special Effects, Best Screenplay, and Breakthrough Video at the MTV Video Music Awards .

The video for Cosmic Girl , like the design of the CD (with an emblem reminiscent of the Ferrari logo) and the engine sound on the title track, reflects Jay Kay's growing interest in fast sports cars .

Traveling Without Moving is the last album to feature bassist Stuart Zender , who then left the band due to a conflict with Jay Kay.

The album received a platinum record on November 3, 1997 for more than one million albums sold in the United States and three platinum records in the UK.

The sudden popularity of the group also ensured a subsequent sales success of the already released records; Emergency on Planet Earth only became known internationally three years after its release and was called the most popular debut album in funk history.

rating

Around 11.5 million copies of the album were sold worldwide, making it one of the best-selling funk albums of all time.

The Q Magazine (10/96, p 164) evaluated the album 4 stars out of 5.

The Source (2/97, p. 86) - Traveling is essentially about the metaphysics of good entertainment ... Jamiroquai has thousands of musical tricks up his sleeve; funky brass sections tied up with jazzy subtleties, dynamic bass lines and disco rhythms.

Album pieces

  1. Virtual Insanity
  2. Cosmic girl
  3. Use the force
  4. Every day
  5. Alright
  6. High times
  7. Drifting Along
  8. Didjerama
  9. Didjital vibration
  10. Traveling Without Moving
  11. You are my love
  12. Spend a Lifetime

In other versions the album had different bonus tracks:

13. Do You Know Where You're Coming From (Japan, UK Re-release)
13./14. Function (USA, Brazil, UK re-release)

A double CD was also released with remixes by famous house artists such as Roger Sanchez , Todd Terry and David Morales .

The following tracks, not available on the album, were released on additional single releases:

  • Bullet (Virtual Insanity Single)
  • Slipin'N'Slidin (Cosmic Girl Single)

Others

Some of the songs on the album were used for the soundtracks of feature films. The title Cosmic Girl can be heard in the dance film Center Stage . The piece Use the Force was for the soundtrack of Love drama She loves him - she does not love him used.

Cosmic Girl was also built into the first part of the music game Donkey Konga for the Nintendo GameCube .

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