Since 2010, the world has been waiting with baited breath for a new Jamiroquai album, but fans of Jay Kay & Co. will see their patience rewarded on March 31. With the release of Automaton, the band will satiate the thirsts of a global following, a rabid fanbase that few bands today enjoy. A world tour is to soon follow, with dates in Europe and Asia already popping up.
YouTube user TiagoVarejao has released pro-shot video footage of the classic Jamiroquai lineup in October of 1997, in full effect on the massive Traveling Without Moving world tour. The setlist is chock full of Jamiroquai’s funkiest jams and electro-funk anthems, no doubt in large part to bassist extraordinaire Stuart Zender, who sadly departed the band after this whirlwind global trek that lasted over two years. Co-founder Toby Smith is still on keyboards, Derrick McKenzie a machine on the drum kit, while Sola Akingbola blesses up the percussion something phenomenal. DJ D-Zire rockin’ the wheels of steel, and the inimitable Wallis Buchanon crushing the didjeridoo jams with Zen vibrations. This tour, lineup and era is widely considered to be the apex of Jamiroquai’s storied career.
Previously only a smattering of songs were available online, some of them incomplete. Now fans across the oceans and beyond can peep the full show, and revel in the sultry, pimpadelic, world-fusion funk of Jamiroquai circa Fall 1997, already an established renaissance of phunk jams for another beloved band.
Check out the video, below.
Setlist: Jamiroquai | Free Jazz Festival | Sao Paulo, Brazil | 10/11/97
Set: Hooked Up, Too Young to Die, Space Cowboy, Mr. Moon, Cosmic Girl, Didjital Vibrations, Use the Force, High Times, Journey to Arnhemland, Virtual Insanity, Stillness in Time, Alright, Travelling Without Moving, Funktion.
Words by B. Getz