Tredici anni fa a Jay Kay, colui che incarna l’anima dei Jamiroquai, la Sony offrì un contratto straordinario, praticamente senza precedenti, in cui si garantiva all’allora macilento ragazzo di Stretford che si aggirava con un cappello di pelle di bufalo negli ambienti dell’acid jazz revolution, la produzione di ben otto album. La Sony non avrebbe potuto fare scelta migliore.

I Jamiroquai (Jam, da jamsession, improvvisazione musicale, e iroquai, dalla tribù indiana degli Irochesi) in questi anni hanno venduto più di venti milioni di album e garantito con la permanenza di circa 150 settimane nelle classifiche inglesi alti introiti per la major giapponese. Molto per il giovane è cambiato dagli esordi; Travelling Without Moving lo ha consacrato star internazionale e i suoi concerti sono quasi sempre eventi da non perdere tanto da affibbiare al suo gruppo l’etichetta di live act di grande impatto.
Travelling Without Moving parlava del delicato tema della bioingegneria. Virtual Insanity, il singolo vincitore di un Grammy inserito nell’album, parlava dei pericoli della clonazione.

Ora dopo quattro anni dall’ultimo A Funk Odyssey i Jamiroquai sono tornati il 20 giugno con un nuovo album dal titolo Dynamite.
Se dovessimo paragonare quest’ultimo lavoro a quello degli esordi (Emergency On Planet Earth), difficilmente diremmo che si tratta della stessa formazione. Pur lasciando immutata la vena polemica nei confronti di tutto ciò che inquina e danneggia il mondo (biogenetica, colonialismo americano) il loro sound sempre apprezzato per una irrinunciabile dose di freschezza e di atmosfere a tratti spensierate e a tratti intimiste, sembra essersi adagiato definitivamente sulle piste da ballo, con un funky dalle radici che sembrano risalire alla disco di trenta anni fa, ma che corre il rischio di appiattirsi in un suono standard e a tratti ripetitivo.
Impeccabili gli arrangiamenti, anch’essi quasi tutti ispirati alla disco anni ’70, con accenni jazzistici che possiamo ammirare soprattutto nel brano Talullah.
Feels Just Like It Should, il brano di apertura, è di quelli che scuotono il corpo e incoraggiano a ballare.
Dynamite, la title track, è il primo vero accenno alla disco sofisticata dell’album, che si confermerà nel prosieguo dell’ascolto come la linea generale dell’album, se non la nuova strada intrapresa dal gruppo.
World He Wants è in linea con la produzione politicamente impegnata dei Jamiroquai, e riflette sulla direzione intrapresa dal cosiddetto mondo libero. Starchild analizza lo stato mentale di un mondo in cui i predicatori televisivi rappresentano i guardiani della morale.

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01   Feels Just Like It Should (04:34)

I'm coming down to see ya,
I'm looking for fast and cheap,
I'm looking for the back of the streets,
(Yeah-ow)
I'm gonna get experience,
I came to see the candy man,
To turn it up and drown,

Feels just like it should,
(Yeah-ow)
Feels just like it should,
(Yeah-ow)
Feels just like it should,
(I'm gonna get experience)
(Yeah-ow)
Feels just like it should,
Turn it up and drown,

I'm going on a laser beam,
to shoot some Cherries down,
I pick a little free agent,
I got myself a fine wide smile,
so baby for the first time,
I need a little sugar 'n' spice,
(Yeah-ow)
I wanna see the city lights,
I'm gonna find a number,

Feels just like it should,
(Yeah-ow)
Feels just like it should,
(Yeah-ow)
Feels just like it should,
(Yeah-ow)
Feels just like it should,
I'm looking for fast and cheap,

Feels just like it should,
I'm looking for the back of the streets,
(Yeah-ow)
Feels just like it should,
I'm gonna get experience,
(Yeah-ow)
Feels just like it should,
I'm here to see the candy man,
(Yeah-ow)
Feels just like it should,

Sugar-spice, I'm on the phone,
I'm outside,
I need a little sexfunk,
I want you,
I'm gonna lick you up and down,
Feels good,
She said it would feel that good,
and it does,

(Yeah-ow)
(Yeah-ow)
and it feels, it feels, it feels,
and it feels, it feels, it feels,
and it feels, it feels, it feels,
just like you,
just like you said it would,
(Yeah-ow)

Feels just like it should,
(Yeah-ow)
Feels just like it should,
I'm coming down tonight to taste y'all,
Sugar-spice, I want you, a sexy girl,
slips in, it feels good,
(I love it when you tell me)
Feels just like it should

02   Seven Days in Sunny June (04:01)

The pebbles you've arranged
In the sand, they're strange
They speak to me like constellations, as we lie here
There's a magic I can hold
Your smile of honey gold
And that you never seem to be in short supply of

[Chorus]

Oooh, so baby let's get it on
Drinking wine and killing time
Sitting in the summer sun
You know I've wanted you so long
Why do you have to drop that bomb on me?

Lazy days, crazy dolls
You said we've been friends too long
Seven days in sunny June
Were long enough to bloom
The flowers on the summer dress you wore in spring
The way we laughed as one
And then you dropped the bomb
That I've known you too long for us to have a thing

[Chorus 2x]

Could it be this?
The stories in your eyes
The silent wings
You'll fly away on

Seven days in sunny June
Were long enough to bloom
The flowers on the sunbeam dress you wore in spring
Yeah, yeah, the way we laughed as one
Why did you drop the bomb on me?

[Chorus]

Could it be this?
The honeysuckle blessings you seem to show me
Could it be this?
For seven days in June I wasn't lonely
Could it be this?
You never gave me time to say I love you
Could it be this?
I know you don't believe me but it's so true

Don't walk away from me, girl
I read the stories in your eyes
Don't you walk away from me, girl
I read the stories in your eyes
Don't you walk away from me, girl
I read the stories in your eyes
Don't you walk away
I read the stories in your eyes

And you've been telling me
We've been friends for too long
Why do you want to drop the bomb?
Telling me
We've been friends for too long
Why do you want to drop the bomb?
You tell me we've been friends for too long, yeah
I think I love you
I think I love you
Why do you want to drop that bomb?

03   Dynamite (04:57)

Riding the night, riding the night
Ain't it cool?
Rolling it high, rolling it high
Ain't it cool?
She's looking hot, she's looking hot
In the breeze
Flashing those eyes, strutting her stuff
Givenchy

Baby wants to ride tonight

[Chorus:]
Well, you sure got the look
That the good times come for free
Baby I'm not expensive
But tonight you're taking me You sure got the look
When you're rinding next to me
Dynamite, dynamite
You sure got the look
Got to keep you on my hook
Pussycat eyes, I'm digging you
Girl, you got the look
Riding the night
You know that she's dynamite, come on
Dynamite, dynamite

Don't stop caressing me
'Cos it's ecstasy
And I wanna be

Riding the night, riding the night
Ain't it cool?
Riding the night, riding the night
She's no fool
(Turn the lights off)
Rolling it high, rolling it high
That's her thing
Riding the night, she's cold as ice
Watch the sting

[Chorus]

You know, baby
You've got that dynamite
Baby
(In the Givenchy, five seventy five, in the Givenchy)
I want your dynamite
Baby
You've got that dynamite
Baby
I want your dynamite

[Chorus]

All this dynamite love
Dynamite love, dynamite
Under the moon as we slip through the city streets
Dynamite love, dynamite love
You and me can believe in this happiness
Dynamite love, dynamite love

[Repeat with ad-libs to end]

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Di  The Punisher

 Finalmente questo cantante... ha fatto un disco originale, unico nel suo genere, con arrangiamenti innovativi e soprattutto mai sentiti.

 Assolutamente irresistibile tanto che accenno pure a ballare in mutande al centro della stanza.