Izdavač: Ostalo
Žanr: Džez, Elektronska muzika, Fank i Soul, Pop, R&B, Rok
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Studio album by Jamiroquai
Released 8 June 1999
Recorded 1998–1999
Studio Chillington (Buckinghamshire, England)
Genre
FunksoulR&Bdiscoacid jazz
Length 53:06
Label Sony Soho Square (UK), Work (US)
Producer Al Stone, Jason Kay
Jamiroquai chronology
In Store Jam
(1997) Synkronized
(1999) 1999 Remixes
(1999)

Jamiroquai studio album chronology
Travelling Without Moving
(1996) Synkronized
(1999) A Funk Odyssey
(2001)

Synkronized is the fourth studio album by English funk and acid jazz band Jamiroquai. It was released on 8 June 1999 by Work Group in the United States, and on 14 June 1999 by S2 Records in the United Kingdom. Bassist Stuart Zender left the band during recording, and Nick Fyffe was hired as a replacement. The album contains funk, acid jazz and disco elements.

The album reached number one in the UK Albums Chart and number 28 in the US Billboard 200. The UK version of the album includes the bonus track `Deeper Underground`, which was released as a single the previous year and became Jamiroquai`s only number-one single in the UK.

Background
The album`s recording sessions began at Jay Kay`s Buckinghamshire home studio, Chillington, in 1998. About 9 tracks[1] were recorded, but the band`s bassist, Stuart Zender, left partway through the recording in late 1998. Jay Kay hired a replacement, Nick Fyffe who previously played in a Jamiroquai cover band,[2] and the album was re-recorded. The revised album was finished and released within 6 months.[1] Synkronized is the band`s last album to feature didgeridoo player Wallis Buchanan.[3] Kay said that he was dissatisfied with Synkronized in a 2001 interview, `I never really locked into that album, lyrically. I wasn`t there. I listen to it now, and I shake my head.`[4]

Composition
The opening track, `Canned Heat`, has `svelte Chic Organisation strings, a percolating bassline and a stomping four-on-the-floor rhythm`.[5] The second track, `Planet Home`, is a `straight, bass-driven funk` track that has techno influences from `ghostly ambient harmonies to bone-shaking synth bass,` and an `out-of-nowhere Latin hustle breakdown`.[6][7] The next track, `Black Capricorn Day`, has a `driving funk groove with sassy horn interjections` which tend to `stutte[r] like a record on a turntable`, with its lyrics about being depressed.[6][8] The lyrics of the fourth track `Soul Education` is about having an `instinctive understanding of universal truths`, as Kay confirmed in an interview with Muzik, `A soul education is what we`re all born with, and the [song`s] lyrics say, `Life information — it`s on the breeze."[9]

`Falling` is a `bass driven` acid-jazz ballad track with its lyrics dedicated to Kay`s then-girlfriend Denise Van Outen,[10][11] which is followed by `Destitute Illusion`, an instrumental track `swamped in layer upon layer of antique analogue synthesizers`, and has the `scratching of DJ D-Zire`.[5][11] The seventh track, `Supersonic`, has a `didgeridoo and dobro drone against electronic percussion and a squiggling synth bass, all of which builds to an hallucinogenic mid-song samba break.`[6] The `breezy` track `Butterfly` has `a wobbly bassline that rises up and swamps the chorus.`[10][5] The `multirhythmic` track `Where Do We Go From Here`, has an `energetic progression broken by catchy and uplifting choruses with staccato interplay between the horn section and guitarist Simon Katz`.[2][12] The album closes with `King for a Day`, which has `dramatic piano and sympathetic strings`, and lyrics referencing Zender`s departure.[13

All tracks are written by Jay Kay and Toby Smith, except where noted

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. `Canned Heat` Kay 5:31
2. `Planet Home` 4:44
3. `Black Capricorn Day` Kay 5:41
4. `Soul Education` 4:15
5. `Falling` 3:45
6. `Destitute Illusions` (instrumental) Kay, Smith, Derrick McKenzie 5:40
7. `Supersonic` 5:15
8. `Butterfly` 4:28
9. `Where Do We Go from Here?` Kay 5:13
10. `King for a Day` 3:40
Total length: 48:12

Credits for Synkronized adapted from album liner notes.[73]

Jamiroquai

Jay Kay – vocals, arrangements, string arrangements, producer, artwork concept
Toby Smith – keyboards, keyboard programming (tracks 1–9)
Derrick McKenzie – drums
Nick Fyffe – bass
Simon Katz – guitar (except track 1)
Sola Akingbola – percussion
Wallis Buchanan – didgeridoo
DJ D-Zire – turntables
Additional musicians

Irwin Kelles – guitar (track 1)
Katie Kissoon & Beverley Skeet – backing vocals
Kick Horns – horns
Simon Hale – string arrangements, keyboard programming (track 10)
Production

Al Stone – producer, recording, mixing
Paul Stoney – assistant engineering
Mike Marsh – mastering
David Malone – artwork concept
Midori Tsukagoshi – photography