Single Track Mind
Night Birds album cover

Bitch to the Boys

Shakatak

In wanting to learn more about the background of bands like Jamiroquai and also city pop to figure out what their influences were, I ended up going through some British funk and jazz-adjacent music from the 70s/80s, and Shakatak popped up frequently, specifically their albums Night Birds, Out of This World, and Drivin’ Hard. I think through a song like this one you can definitely sense some of where city pop derived its sound. I think I also remember from the Jamiroquai subreddit that one of their newer songs actually interpolates a piece from a song from one of these albums. Can’t remember which one though.

One song per day. Two hundred words or less.