{"title":"Jamiroquai","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eJamiroquai formed in London in 1992 around singer Jay Kay, whose mother Karen was a professional jazz vocalist with her own television show in the 1970s, and whose early demos caught the attention of Acid Jazz Records quickly enough to produce a debut single, \"When You Gonna Learn?\", before the year was out. Sony signed the band soon after, and \"Emergency on Planet Earth\" (1993), which hit number one on the UK Albums Chart, announced a group who had absorbed Stevie Wonder, Sly Stone, Roy Ayers, and Gil Scott-Heron without sounding derivative of any of them. The early lineup, which included bassist Stuart Zender, keyboardist Toby Smith, drummer Derrick McKenzie, and didgeridoo player Wallis Buchanan, gave the first three albums a live, organic quality that the later records largely traded away for studio polish. \"The Return of the Space Cowboy\" (1994) consolidated the sound and remains the most consistent album in the catalogue, while \"Travelling Without Moving\" (1996), driven by \"Virtual Insanity\" and \"Cosmic Girl\", broke the band internationally and holds a Guinness World Record as the best-selling funk album of all time. The acid jazz credentials are most audible on those first three records; \"Synkronized\" (1999) and \"A Funk Odyssey\" (2001) shifted progressively toward dance and disco without losing the groove, and the original pressings of the early Sony albums are increasingly sought after on vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jamiroquai-emergency-on-planet-earth-1993-uk-sony-soho-square-original-2lp","title":"Jamiroquai - Emergency on Planet Earth (1993 UK Sony Soho Square Original 2LP)","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eVinyl\u003c\/b\u003e: VG+\/VG+\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSleeve\u003c\/b\u003e: VG+\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur grading system explained \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dpbg4u-d1.myshopify.com\/pages\/secondhand-grading-guide\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ehere\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhoto is of the actual item.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJamiroquai - \u003cem\u003eEmergency on Planet Earth\u003c\/em\u003e | 2 x Vinyl LP - 1993 UK Original (Sony Soho Square 474069 1)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJay Kay signed to Sony before he had a band. \"When You Gonna Learn\" had come out on Acid Jazz Records in late 1992, written and sung by Kay alone, Andrew Levy from the Brand New Heavies playing bass, and it worked well enough that Sony offered a major-label deal on the strength of that single. Kay assembled the lineup quickly: Toby Smith on keyboards, Stuart Zender on bass, Nick Van Gelder on drums, Wallis Buchanan on didgeridoo, with a wider circle of guitarists, percussionists and horn players filling out the sessions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album sounds like a band that has been playing together for years, which they had not. The rhythm section of Zender and Van Gelder locks hard from \"Too Young to Die\" onward, Zender's Warwick Streamer and Music Man Stingray giving the low end the weight and responsiveness the songs depend on. \"Hooked Up\" and \"If I Like It, I Do It\" run on his basslines as much as on Kay's vocals. The Reggae Philharmonic Strings appear on two tracks, adding orchestral layers without overwhelming the funk underneath. Gary Barnacle on saxophone and flute, John Thirkell on trumpet and Richard Edwards on trombone complete the horn section.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe material is politically charged. \"Emergency on Planet Earth\" addresses environmental destruction. \"Revolution 1993\" runs ten minutes and builds through several phases. \"Music of the Mind\" and \"Blow Your Mind\" deal with consciousness. \"Didgin' Out\" is Buchanan's solo feature, the yidaki unaccompanied. The album draws openly on Stevie Wonder, Sly Stone and the entire early 1970s soul-funk vocabulary, but the combination of Buchanan's didgeridoo, DJ D-Zire's turntable scratching and the acid jazz rhythms of the early 1990s London scene gives it a specific period character that belongs entirely to this moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal 1993 UK 2LP pressing on Sony Soho Square, pressed at Sony\/CBS Haarlem. Gatefold with lyric inner sleeves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sony Soho Square","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43558941818939,"sku":null,"price":180.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/IMG_7211.jpg?v=1780288528"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/jamiroquai.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}