Jamiroquai celebrate 30 years with series of vinyl reissues…
… to reissue a series of vinyl albums to celebrate 30 years
since the band’s first release…
‘Emergency On Planet Earth’ – Released for National Album Day – 14 October 2022
‘A Funk Odyssey’ – Released 4 November 2022
‘Dynamite’ – Released 11 November 2022
‘High Times’ (multiple formats) – Released 2 December 2022
Jamiroquai are one of the UK’s most pioneering and ground breaking bands of the past 30 years. Pushing boundaries and bringing jazz and funk to a mainstream audience, their sound is not only unique but immediately recognisable. Their songs and albums focused on global environmental and ecological issues that are now commonly discussed, but in 1992 around the release of their debut single on Acid Jazz ‘When You Gonna Learn’ and its subsequent 1993 album ‘Emergency On Planet Earth’ (which contained sleeve notes with a manifesto by Jay Kay regarding the environment), these subjects were not on the agenda. But now, with the benefit of hindsight, these records seem as important and relevant, if not more so, than they were upon their original release.
Following the reissue in January of the 25th anniversary edition of ‘Travelling Without Moving’ – the best selling funk album of all time – this series of reissues celebrates Jamiroquai’s unquestionable importance to the musical landscape, not only in the UK, but the world.
Debut album ‘Emergency On Planet Earth’, is to be released ready for National Album Day on 14 October 2022 – who this year are celebrating debut albums. This 30th anniversary reissue comes as a transparent/clear coloured vinyl in a gatefold cover with printed inner sleeves containing liner notes by Jay Kay from both 2013 and 2017. Originally released in 1993, the album was met with critical acclaim and charted at number one, and to date has been certified multi-platinum selling in excess of 3 million copies globally.
The band’s fifth album, ‘A Funk Odyssey’, is to be reissued on 4 November 2022 as a double LP on black vinyl with gatefold cover and printed inner sleeve notes. Originally released in September 2001 and again selling in excess of 3 million copies globally, it came out at the band’s commercial peak, seeing it once again chart at number one in the UK and breaking into Top 5’s around the world.
Following the huge global success of ‘A Funk Odyssey’, the band didn’t release their follow up album, ‘Dynamite’, until June 2005. Achieving sales of over 1.5 million internationally, it spawned the singles ‘Feels Just Like It Should’, ‘Seven Days In Sunny June’ and ‘(Don’t) Give Hate a Chance’. This 30th anniversary reissue is released on 11 November 2022 as a double LP with a foiled gatefold sleeve.
‘High Times: Singles 1992 -2006’ is the band’s greatest-hit collection, originally released in November 2006 and selling to date a huge 2.5 million copies around the world. The final release in this series, it is to be reissued in three formats on 2 December 2022, this is the first time it is available on vinyl and includes the addition of ‘You Give Me Something’, a track that does not appear on the original CD release. It comes as a 180g black double LP set with gatefold cover and printed inner sleeves. A numbered, limited edition deluxe double LP version on 180g green marbled vinyl with gatefold sleeve, spotgloss slipcase, printed inner sleeves, slipmat and brand new liner notes by Jay Kay. And a Deluxe signed edition that is numbered and limited to a run of 1000. The double LP on 180g green marbled vinyl with gatefold sleeve, spotgloss slipcase, printed inner sleeves, slipmat, brand new liner notes by Jay Kay as well as the 2006 liner notes and an art card signed by Jay Kay. The signed version will be available exclusively through indie record stores in the UK.
Pre-Order here: Jamiroquai.lnk.to/Vinyl