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CosmicMouse
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Joined: 10 Feb 2002
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 Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 09:40 |
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Jamiroquai take a break - back to the brass
Interview on CNN:
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Jamiroquai's Jay Kay says he wants time off
August 9, 2002 Posted: 10:30 AM EDT (1430 GMT)
(CNN) -- Jay Kay of Jamiroquai would like a vacation. Nothing fancy. Just a break, to "sit at home, feet on the dog."
Seeing a stagnant music industry, the frontman says he wants to shake things up for himself and Jamiroquai. The band's "Funk Odyssey" debuts this month, but Kay is already looking into the future. Away from the computer and back to the brass, he says.
The Music Room caught up with him at the Montreaux Jazz Festival, a celebration of what is virtually roots music in the industry's digital age. Kay says jazz has much to teach today's scene: "being able to do things on the spot, being able to play your instrument, being able to be imaginative with it."
"Real musicians," says Kay. No computers for them.
TMR: How has jazz influenced your music?
Kay: My mom was a jazz singer and I've always had a feel for good, big brass and nice, big stuff and tight, punchy lines. But purist jazz hasn't really influenced it. I think that era of jazz fusion artists was more my bag. Mixing the jazz and the Latin and the funk, rolling that into one. That's more where I'm coming from.
TMR: What are the most encouraging and discouraging trends in the music industry?
Kay: I feel the industry has got to have a shake-up. I feel that the whole thing has become about picking people off the television and marketing them, and about making big money. There's no artist development. (You make) one album and if that doesn't work you're finished. There doesn't seem to be many real bands. It just seems to be very manufactured, churned out of it, but they're not looking after the artist long term. It's like a conveyer belt for artists and I think that's really sad.
Someone comes up with the boy band concept and then there are about 50 of them. I find it very difficult in America. It's either one thing or the other and that's it. I sometimes wonder where we fit into all this.
TMR: Who would you most like to collaborate with?
Kay: It's a difficult question. I don't really think too much about collaborations. What I do need to think about at the moment is the direction of the band. We have used computers on this album, and now I think I really do want to get back to the old punch; get back to the brass.
What I do need to do is take time off. I need a year off just to re-focus -- I can't stop sweating -- and re-assess the direction of the band and where it's going. [I need to] give myself a break from it.
I'm also finding that being on the road all the time has a seriously damaging effect on the ordinary things that go on in life -- stupid mundane and ordinary things like painting your room. Living out of a bag is very difficult. Living out of those big cases over there is very hard and after a while it can drive you mad. There's a part of me that's quite simply ordinary, sit at home, feet on the dog.
TMR: Will it be an open-end break?
Kay: You know what I want to do? What I want to do is take all the guys away, go hire a nice place, a lovely place and we'll spend a month together and just write and that's it. They can't run away from me, you see. I can lock them in the room. We can go out, purely on an informal thing. "Lets go out. Whatever you want. Get drunk, come back, bang there's a song!" As opposed to ganging you all together and giving the record company a day where I'm going for a July release on this. And then hurry, hurry, hurry and the pressure is on.
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source:http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/09/mroom.jaykay/index.html
yeah, that sounds cool to me. I really like the AFO sounds but I must admit that i missed the old stlye with brass and so on. what about the didge? will we also hear Mr. Buchanan again on the next album? 
CosmicMouse
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MartinMcFly
Joined: 22 Mar 2002
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Location: Cologne/Germany
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| Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 12:50 |
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I like the old style and the new style. I hope the next album will contain both styles.
thanks for the interview, Cosmicmouse. Was very interesting to read what Jay thinks of electronic music  |
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Butterfly in June
Joined: 21 May 2002
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| Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 08:50 |
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Thanks for the interview CosmicMouse. I can understand that Jay wants to have a break - and I think it's not only him but also the other Jami-members. Doing such a long tour must be very exhausting and being away from home and family is not too funny in my opinion. 
I would appreciate if the new album would sound more like the first ones.  Let's just wait and see what they do - I think Rob and Nick will influence their future kind of music a lot !! I just can't wait - I wish the next album would come out next month - and sure they would come to Germany again!!!       |
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Jemau
Joined: 30 Jul 2002
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Location: Malta
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| Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 09:25 |
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well wow thanks cosmicmouse for the interview  ... I love  AFO sounds but it's true I'd appreciate more the sounds of the first three albums and the originality of Travelling Without Moving.
Thinking about it, it must be very hard to travel all the time  and live on the same clothes, on the same attitudes and pressures from Stage Managers and Interviewers/ journalists  . It mst be difficult for the band members to dedicate some of their time to their family. And thus Jay does not want to lose other band members......
We just don't hope he'll be off his music for very long!!!  right?? HEHE  |
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sunrayvibe
Joined: 19 Feb 2002
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Location: Berlin
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| Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 14:57 |
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Good news
Yes, this sounds like realy good news. 
I am glad to hear JK speaks like a sensible person who knows his own limits and feels like taking a break for resourcing.
This means that we might have to be patient until 2005. But "true love can wait" .
(Sorry David, if you read this, I stole your line!)
I appreciate AFO as a good dancing album but I would love to hear again the rich sounds of the former albums with brass, flute, didjeridoo, violin. In the past Jamiroquai has gathered such talented musicians. Like Martin Shawn on the trompet (you see VAX, I learned my lesson). Electro music is fun but it is limited.
Have you listened to the accoustic versions of Love Fool, Picture of my life, Black Crow ? And the "unplugged" of Love Fool at CD:UK on which you can the hear the fine balance between all instruments and the voice. 
Their performance is so good. As JK said: real musicians who know their art: this is what we like.
Back to what JK say about the music industry: yes, it is INDUSTRY.
But the music companies should not forget that some consumers do choose the "products" (= album) they buy, according to the quality.
And Jamiroquai is certainly a nice "handmade" work of art.
I read an interesting article about the music scene in the USA. It seems that the youth is getting tired about what JK called the "conveyer-belt manufactured" artists (like Britney Spears  , just to quote one). It seems that young girls like Vanessa Carlton, Michelle Branch or April Lavigne are getting popular because they write their own songs and thus target much better the simple questions and expectations of the youth.
I hope that JK will implement his point of view ( back to the roots, real sounds, imaginative music...) in the next album and also in the next tour.
To be honest, I do not give a damn about which hat JK is wearing on the stage. What matters is the quality of the music, of his voice (here we go again) and he, the band and the audience having fun sharing the music.  |
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Butterfly in June
Joined: 21 May 2002
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| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2002 07:19 |
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Thank you sunrayvibe for this post - it speaks right from my heart!!  |
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Jemau
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| Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 09:22 |
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your post wraps it all sunrayvibe TRUE words... |
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DIDGIN
Joined: 27 Mar 2002
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Location: Stranded on a spaceship hideaway (in Israel)
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| Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 16:38 |
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if the next album is astudio album (not live or greatest hits or stuff like that), I think we will here more acoustic tunes with orchestration and string arangement like corner of the earth, along new-old school tunes like do it like we used to do (which is not comletly the old style I think).
the best will be those two with one or two new style tunes to promote the album. besides, I like the new style two.
another option is to turn completly acoustic after J had enough from computers, and abendend electric along with electronic. In this case, I think the best name for the 6th album will be "Unplugged Jam".
both cases, I want the didge back, and because the lat album was with no didge at all I want at least 3-4 didge tunes (and I prefer songs over instrumentals), from which at leat one is a single!
also I have an idea to a live album but I'll tell you some other time |
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sunrayvibe
Joined: 19 Feb 2002
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Location: Berlin
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| Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 08:34 |
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Support
Good Morning Mouse, Martin, Jemeau, Butterfly, Didgin and all others.
I am glad to hear that most fans are "riding" on the same wave and are glad to read about this interview.
Is not it weird? Although I started listening to Jami in 1994, I became a Jami not so long ago, with the AFO tour. Still I enjoy the old sound better.
Didgin, you have all my support with your idea of an "Unplugged Jam" .
I also have nothing against "the return of Mr Buchanan". |
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