Synkronized

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Synkronized
Synkronized cover
Studio album by Jamiroquai
Released June 14, 1999 (UK)
June 8, 1999 (US)
Recorded 1999
Genre Acid Jazz
Length 47:57
Label Work
Producer(s) Al Stone
Professional reviews
Jamiroquai chronology
Travelling Without Moving
(1996)		 Synkronized
(1999)		 A Funk Odyssey
(2001)


Synkronized is the fourth album by Jamiroquai. Released in 1999, the album contains funk, disco and acid-jazz elements. The classic "Canned Heat" is featured on this album. "Where Do We Go from Here" rocks with a leap-frogging blues piano and tangy bongos. The album's grand finale, "King for a Day," is a regal rock-operatic excursion embellished with fully orchestrated piano and strings. The lyrics in "King for a Day" are written about Stuart Zender, Jamiroquai's bass player for their first three albums, who left the band during the making of Synkronized. It is noticeable that there is no bass guitar or bass synth sound in King for a Day.

Recording sessions for the album began with Zender installed on bass, but he left partway through the recording in mid-1998, and rather than credit Zender for the tracks he had played on (and possibly co-written), Jay Kay decided to scrap all the tracks and start again. Clips of two of these tracks were shown on MTV and have been bootlegged, although not in their full form. The clips display a much more latin / fusion sound than the songs that made it on the final album cut. Another outtake from Synkronized is known, and it's called "Snooze You Lose". The song was later released on a promo CD called "An Online Odyssey". The bass on the album is either played on a synth bass, or by new recruit Nick Fyffe, in a style that is basically an imitation of the departed Zender.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Canned Heat" – 5:31
  2. "Planet Home" – 4:44
  3. "Black Capricorn Day" – 5:41
  4. "Soul Education" – 4:15
  5. "Falling" – 3:45
  6. "Destitute Illusions" – 5:40
  7. "Supersonic" – 5:15
  8. "Butterfly" – 4:28
  9. "Where Do We Go From Here?" – 5:13
  10. "King For A Day" – 3:40
  11. "Deeper Underground" (bonus track) – 4:46

Some countries featured "Deeper Underground" from the 1998 film Godzilla as a bonus track. Some of this album's songs were used in movies as soundtracks. "Canned Heat" was played in the movie "Center Stage" and is also featured in the famous dance sequence from Napoleon Dynamite.

Publishing Companies: Sony Entertainment, Epic Records

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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
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