Buffalo Man

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Buffalo Man is the name of the character featured on all of the British band Jamiroquai's album artwork.

1 Origins
2 Notable Variations
3 External links

[edit] Origins

Buffalo Man was created sometime prior to the release of their 1992 single When You Gonna Learn, allegedly it was originally sketched by the band's primary songwriter and front-man Jason Kay as Buffalo Man is seemingly a self portrait silhouette of Jason wearing a buffalo hat. The mark has been used on every commercial release of the band's output in some form or another; usually the unique symbol is pictured unaltered, but there have been times where it is shown in a stylised manner to suit the artwork or song.

[edit] Notable Variations

The unaltered image of the Buffalo Man, as seen on the cover of The Return of the Space Cowboy.

Over the years, Buffalo Man has seen some temporary changes or interesting thematic uses:

[edit] Virtual Insanity, Travelling Without Moving

The CD cover of Travelling without Moving.

For the single of Virtual Insanity, Buffalo Man appears in the place of the Ferrari horse in an homage to Jason's love of sports cars. For the album cover to Travelling Without Moving, the artwork is similar, but takes on an embossed effect and is seen on a metal grille.

[edit] Cosmic Girl, Everyday

The cover of the Mexican Cosmic Girl promo CD. Note the missing stars above the 'I' letters, which do appear on the more regular releases of the single.

For these two releases, Buffalo Man is pictured with a star over his heart and two intersecting orbital rings.

[edit] Synkronized

The cover of the Synkronized album

While the design remained fundamentally unaltered, Buffalo Man has been turned into a laser-cut mirror and photographed from interesting angles by Midori Tsukagoshi. For the disc itself, no ink has been used on the character, but the same stone background found on the front cover has been used for the rest of the disc, thus allowing the consumer to recreate the photographed effect.

[edit] External links

Jamiroquai
Members: Jason Kay \| Rob Harris \| Paul Turner \| Matt Johnson \| Derrick McKenzie \| Sola Akingbola \| Lorraine McIntosh \| Hazel Fernandez \| Sam Smith
Former members: Gavin Dodds \| Simon Katz \| Nick Fyffe \| Stuart Zender \| Simon Carter \| Toby Smith \| Nick Van Gelder \| Darren Galea (DJ D-Zire) \| Winston Rollins \| Adrian Revell \| Wallis Buchanan \| Beverley Knight
See also: Buffalo Man \| Iroquois
Discography
Studio albums: Emergency on Planet Earth \| The Return of the Space Cowboy \| Travelling without Moving \| Synkronized \| A Funk Odyssey \| Dynamite
Compilation Albums: Late Night Tales: Jamiroquai \| High Times: Singles 1992-2006
Box sets: L'Intégrale des Maxi-Singles \| The Single Box \| The Singles Collection \| Deeper Underground \| 1999 Remixes
DVDs: Live In Verona
Singles: When You Gonna Learn \| Too Young to Die \| Blow Your Mind \| Emergency on Planet Earth \| Space Cowboy \| Half the Man \| Stillness in Time \| Light Years \| The Kids \| Do You Know Where You're Coming From? \| Virtual Insanity \| Cosmic Girl \| Alright \| High Times \| Deeper Underground \| Canned Heat \| Black Capricorn Day \| Supersonic \| King for a Day \| I'm in the Mood for Love \| Little L \| You Give Me Something \| Love Foolosophy \| Corner of the Earth \| Main Vein \| Do It Like We Used To Do \| Feels Just Like It Should \| Seven Days in Sunny June \| (Don't) Give Hate a Chance \| Runaway
Promotion-only / Cancelled / White label singles: Revolution 1993 \| If I Like It I Do It \| Morning Glory \| In Store Jam \| Everyday \| Travelling Without Moving \| Hollywood Swingin' \| Soul Education \| An Online Odyssey \| Feel So Good \| Bad Girls \| Dynamite \| Starchild \| Electric Misstress \| Time Won't Wait \| Emergency On Planet Earth & Blow Your Mind remixes \| Talullah (Shelter mixes) \| Multiquai