Acid Jazz

August 12, 2006

Most listened: Live in Verona-Jamiroquai

Current longing: Some sleep I’m fairly tired atm, but then again aren’t I always

Been having a good week this week. Beyond what was mentioned last episode, I got a 90% score for a Physics prac and an effort award. I have almost finished a new art piece which I have been working very hard on. It doesn’t look like much but its a lot to do. Done about 6hrs of that this weekend so far. The main bit is almost finished. I finally have PS CS2 working on the laptop again, obviously. I’ve been craving some graphical work.

Something thats recently bugged me in the past 1hr or so, is about the new Jamiroquai singles coming out. They are the 2 singles for their Greatest Hits CD coming out in November. The names have been announced as well as the type of song they are. Ones a smooth disco one and the other is a raw rock track. I’m just so annoyed about it.

You see the thing with Jamiroquai is that they started off doing Acid Jazz which slowly blended into Disco funk and once A Funk Odyssey hit it became modern Funk with no acid jazz in there at all. The latest album(Dynamite) goes back a step and is just a unique mix of modern funk, tidbits of Acid Jazz and some other mixed genres. The rock songs is what really bugs me though. They are okay as a once off, like Deeper Underground but it now seems to be another step away from the Acid Jazz genre.

Now on Friday I was on the official board reading about the Lovebox concert which was really big. They played lots of non-single songs and some Acid Jazz ones which normally aren’t played(thats not to say that they still don’t play acid jazz in concert, they just played some acid jazz stuff that they normally don’t play). Jay even wore an older style get up that reflecets the ROTSC era. So I thought that maybe they would go back into Acid Jazz as they did something a bit different. But it doesn’t seem so.

I like the Acid Jazz stuff because it grows on you, the new stuff doesn’t do that as much. Its mainly the announcement of a rock song that bugs me. Although it might still retain some Acid Jazz, lets hope eh? I mean Dynamite(song) is callsed as rock and I love that song. Infact its more funk imo but still.

Also once GH comes out Jamiroquai will be out of the album deal with Sony/BMG which they have been for over the past decade. They are all looking forward to that. Other happenings with the band are going on once GH is out. Jays fashion range comes out etc. I just have this terrible feeling that they will call it quits. That would really disappoint me.

-DP

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