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Travelling Without Moving |  | Artist: Jamiroquai
Label: S2
Category: Music
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 9118
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099748399922
ASIN: B000025RR1
Release Date: September 1, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | Virtual Insanity | | • | Cosmic Girl | | • | Use The Force | | • | Everyday | | • | Alright Alright | | • | High Times | | • | Drifting Along | | • | Didjerama | | • | Didjital Vibrations | | • | Travelling Without Moving | | • | You Are My Love | | • | Spend A Lifetime | | • | Funktion |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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, ITravelling Without Moving/I. It's a fine record, with warm keyboards, sweet strings, and irrepressible grooves grounding Jay Kay's sublime vocals and fuelling the hits "Virtual Insanity", "Cosmic Girl" and 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.--ISuzanne McElfresh/I
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 Yet another top album the Jamiroquai Boys January 16, 2003
V. Ryan (London Uk)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
To me, this album brought Jamiroquai into more mainstream pop, but at the same time demonstrated the lyrical genius of the extreamly talented Jason Kay. brThe album kicks off with the breathtaking "Virtual Insanity" a track which was way ahead of its time. Lyrically its amazing, bringing up the issue of how we shouldn't mess with mother nature. Then "Cosmic Girl" hits us on track 2, and this may be the most infectious Jamiroquai song along with Space Cowboy and Little L. I love track 3, for the fact that its something completly different. "Use The Force" is a samba sounding track which has feel good written all over it.brSo after the upbeat start of the first 3 tracks we hit the beautiful "Everyday" on track 4. Kay's voice is gentle and sweet and he delivers this ballad in style.brTo bring the beat back in track 5 is the top 20 hit "Alright". Another storming track and it gets better with "High Times" which is a cheeky song about ...getting high". We take a complete sound change when it comes to track 7. "Drifting Along" is simply a reggae track. Not one of my favourite but a great idea! Track 8 and 9 are the digeridoo tracks. the second of the two is a better track.brOnce that is all done Jamiroquai hit track 10 with one of there finest - the title Track "Travelling Without Moving" This is one funked up mother of a track. And my personal album Favourite.brTrack 11 is "You are my love" which is an 70's sounding song. A bit of a chill out one.brAlbum finishes with a great ballad "Spend A lifetime" - if oyur feeling depressed listen to this - it will go with the mood.pThere is a bonus track - in the UK its "Funktion" Which is a great track and all you can tell by the name - its very funky!brIf your in america the bonus track is Do You Know Where your coming from - which is one of the best Jamiroquai tracks I have ever heard - its so different yet so good.pThis album has so many different sounds, and Jay Kay's voice is much stronger (although the first 2 albums in my opinion are faultless)pJust excellent.
Excellent range of styles and inspirng Didge tracks! October 24, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This was my first Jamiroquai album, and I have since bought Emergency on planet Earth and A Funk Odyssey. I thought, when I first listened to Jamiroquai that all his stuff would be very samey. Well, I couldn't be more wrong. This album, in my opinion reflects everything that Jay Kay and the band are capable of. The didgeridoo tracks on this album actually inspired me to learn how to play the instrument. This is an excellent album, and I would advise anybody who isn't sure whether they like Jamiroquai or not to buy this album first. It's exxcellent, it easily gets two thumbs up in my books!!
Genius May 8, 2001
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is easily the best of the four Jamiroquai albums - nearly every track is brilliant. The basslines, horns, vocals, ketboard and percussion are all perfect and create an incredible, but flexible sound. This is shown on High Times, which has a mock rock sound, Drifting Along, with a reggae style, but most impressively, on Travelling without moving, which is the closest thing to beaty dance on a Jamiroquai album
Superfunky... February 25, 2005
Ms. S. C. Bidwell (Oxfordshire (mostly!))
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have all of Jamiroquai's albums, but in my opinion, Travelling Without Moving is their best. pPractically all of the songs on it are classics, Cosmic Girl being my favourite, partly because of the wicked tune and beat, and partly because every time you listen to it, you're struck by just how much goes into their music- something that I think is true of all Jamiroquai songs. Virtual Insanity, Alright and Everyday also deserve a mention for being similarly catchy and impressive tunes. Use the force and High times call on tribal and reggae influences, while 'Spend a lifetime', one of my favourites, comes as a surprise being the only slow song on the album and distinctly jazzy. Jamiroquai are masters at what they do. pI think part of the album's success is that Jamiroquai draw on so many musical influences, that their style is almost impossible to pin down. The tracks on this album lean towards a mixture of jazz, funk and soul remeniscent of the late 70s/ early 80s, they take on Latino and even tribal influences, and add their own unmistakeably funky musical inventions to create their style.pJamiroquai have been criticised for being to 'samey', and admittedly, their style isn't for everyone. But Jamiroquai, if you like funk, have it all, and their music is not just classically funky, it's clever too. Here are proper musicians, making this generation's music famous for being new and different, instead of so many bands' hopeless imitations of former greatness from the 60s, 70s and 80s.pA must have for all funk-lovers.
Easily Gains Entry Into The 100 Greatest Albums Of All Time August 13, 2003
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Jamiroquai, with ths album, were catapaulted into the public eye. Although they already has a large following after 'Emergency on Planet Earth' and 'The Return Of The Spacecowboy' this, in my opinion was the making of Jamiroquai. Jason Kay from North London proves himself to be a master lyricist composer on this album, incorperating strings to great affect on many of his tracks, most noteably 'Virtual Insanity' which also picked up the Best Music Video accolade at the 1996 MTV Awards. Each track on this album is extremely individual and each manages to convey a different feeling and emotion 'Cosmic Girl' being the epitomy of racy fun and 'Drifitng Along' letting you kick back and not worry about a thing. The only miniscule bugbear of mine being the seemingly similar 'Didjitial Vibrations' and 'Didjerama', but I never have liked the sound of a Didjeridoo. Irrespective this album deilvers and credit must aslo go to the great bassist Stuart Zender, probably one of the greatest bass players of modern times. Best Track: 'Cosmic Girl', Worst Track: 'Didjerama, but only by default. A must must buy CD for even the most sceptical.
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