Jamiroquai – Talullah

Dynamite, 2005: album track with strings, sax and flute, not a single

Talullah appears on Jamiroquai’s sixth studio album, Dynamite, released in June 2005 on Sony BMG/Epic. It is an album track rather than a commercial single, credited to Jay Kay with bandmates including Matt Johnson, Rob Harris and Derrick McKenzie. Mike Spencer co-produces with Kay. Where the singles chase the radio, this track opens the arrangement: flute and saxophone, strings, a funk bass that leaves space for a love plea. June 2005, Sony BMG/Epic, not issued as a single. The credit lists Kay with Johnson, Harris and McKenzie among the band. Spencer co-produces. Flute, saxophone, strings and funk bass are the extra colours around the plea.

Kay begs a plane to turn around. The band answers with jazzier colours than the singles. Designer Magazine flagged the bursts of sax, flutes and strings as a welcome pause in the middle of the album. After the bright radio cuts, Talullah lets the group play as a band. The lyric asks the plane to turn back. Sax, flute and strings are the answer Designer Magazine picked out. The singles are brighter. This track sits in the middle of Dynamite and slows the running order down.

The song has no chart peak, which is why some listeners keep album tracks beside the singles. This one slows the campaign without dropping the rhythm: a romance with room for the soloists. After the radio cuts, the group uses the mid-album space. Strings and sax carry part of the feeling. Kay keeps the lyric simple and urgent. There is no single release and no chart position to quote.

Mike Spencer co-produced with Jay Kay. Matt Johnson, Rob Harris and Derrick McKenzie are among the band credits. The album is Dynamite, June 2005, Sony BMG/Epic. Flute and saxophone, strings and a funk bass open the arrangement out past the singles. Designer Magazine called the sax, flutes and strings a welcome break and called the song a love song, a Jamiroquai-style ballad with that funky bass. The lyric asks a plane to turn around and stays simple and urgent. The track was not a commercial single, so there is no chart peak to attach to it. On the album it remains the mid-record stop, with room for the soloists, and it slows the running order without dropping the rhythm.