Incognito

Gli Incognito, sono stati tra i primi ad entrare nel mondo dell’acid jazz. Esattamente nel 1981, con il loro primo album: “jazz funk” Quasi interamente strumentale. Il suo leader, Jean Paul Maunick detto “Bluey” è inglese, ma originario delle mauritius. Servendosi poi più tardi della splendida voce di Maysa Leak, ha creato inconsapevolmente, un genere che prendeva jazz e funk e gli dava delle atmosfere acide e uniche. Solo una decina d’anni  dopo, si sarebbe chiamato acid jazz appunto.

Dopo l’esordio seguì un lungo periodo di silenzio, fino al 1991, quando prepotentemente tornarono con “Inside life”. Ma la consacrazione vera avvenne con l’album seguente “tribes vibes andscribes” del 1992, dove si trova una versione rivista e reintepretata meravigliosamente di: “Don’t you worry bout a thing”, di Steave Wonder, ma cantata da molti. Nel 1993 raggiungono il meglio con “Positivity”, un album da avere! Negli album seguenti Maunick si è poi avvicinato ad un genere un po’ più dance ma sempre infuso di ritmi anni settanta, vero paradiso di melodie.

Nel 2010 pubblicano l’album Transatlantic R.P.M., con la partecipazione di Mario Biondi.

Discografia

Jazz funk
1. Parisienne Girl 2. Summer´s Ended 3. Shine On 4. Wake Up The City 5. Interference 6. Incognito 7. SunburnThe Smile Of A Child 8. Why Don’t You Believe 9. Chase The Clouds Away 10. Walking On Wheels		1981
Inside life
1. Metropolis 2. Smile 3. One Step To A Miracle 4. Can You Feel Me Crazy 5. For You Gypsy 6. Inside Life 7. Love Is The Colour 8. Sketches In The Dark 9. Soho 10. Always There 11. Promise You The Moon		1991
Tribes, vibes and scribes
1. Colibri 2. Change 3. River in My Dreams 4. Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing 5. Magnetic Ocean 6. I Love What You Do for Me 7. Closer to the Feeling 8. Arc en Ciel de Miles 9. Need to Know 10. Pyramids 11. Tribal Vibes		1992
Positivity
1. Step into My Life 2. Still a Friend of Mine 3. Smiling Faces 4. Where Do We Go from Here 5. Positivity 6. Inversions 7. Givin’ It Up 8. Talkin’ Loud 9. Deep Waters 10. Do Right 11. Pieces of a Dream 12. Thinking ‘Bout Tomorrow 13. Keep the Fires Burning		1993
100 and rising
1. Where did we go wrong 2. Good love 3. One hundred and rising 4. Roots (Back to a Way of Life) 5. Everyday 6. Too far gone 7. After the fall (strumentale) 8. Spellbound and speechless 9. I hear your name 10. Barumba (Tribute to Luiz Eca) 11. Millenium (strumentale) 12. Time has come 13. Jacob’s ladder (strumentale)		1995
Beneath the surface
1. Labour of love 2. Beneath the surface 3. A shade of blue 4. Without you 5. Misunderstood 6. Hold on to me 7. Living against the river 8. She wears black 9. Fountain of life 10. Out of the storm 11. Dark side of the cog 12. All that tou want me to be 13. Sunchild		1996
Last night in Tokio – live
1. She Rises in the East 2. Solar Fire 3. Labour of Love 4. I Love What You Do for Me 5. Talkin’ Loud 6. Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing 7. Out of the Storm 8. Dark Side of the Cog 9. Beneath the Surface 10. Colibri 11. Deep Waters 12. Everyday 13. Roots 14. Always There 15. Still a Friend of Mine		1996
No time like the future
1. Wild And Peaceful 2. Get Into My Groove 3. It Ain’t Easy 4. Marrakech 5. Fearless 6. Nights Over Egypt 7. Centre Of The Sun 8. More Of Myself 9. I Can See The Future 10. Black Rain		1999
Life stranger than fiction
1. Bring you down 2. Slow down (get a grip) 2. Skin on my skin 3. Cut it loose (Edit) 4. There will come a day 5. Worlds collide 6. Castles in the air 7. Got to know 8. Reach out 9. Rivers runnin’ black 10. On the road (pt.1) 11. On the road (pt.2) 12. Down to earth		2001
Who Needs Love
1. Who Needs Love 2. Can’t Get You Out Of My Head 3. People At The Top 4. Morning Sun 5. Stone Cold Heart 6. Cada Dia (Day By Day) 7. If You Want My Love 8. Don’t Be A Fool 9. Byrd Plays 10. Where Love Shines 11. Did We Really Ever Try 12. Blue (I’m Still Here With You) 13. Fly		2002
Adventures In Black Sunshine
1. Don’t Turn My Love Away 2. Everything Your Heart Desires 3. Close My Eyes 4. The 25th Chapter 5. True To Myself 6. The Principles Of Love 7. This Thing Called Love 8. Fences And Barriers 9. Mindin’ My Business 10. Autumn Song 11. Listen To The Music 12. Mr. Jones 13. The World Is Mine 14. Beyond The Clouds		2004
Eleven
1. Let The Mystery Be 2. We Got Music 3. Come Away With Me 4. Baby It’s Alright 5. When Tomorrow Brings You Down 6. Jacaranda 7. Show Me Love 8. Will I Ever Learn? 9. I’ll Get By 10. It’s Just One Of Those Things 11. As Long As It’s You		2005
Transatlantic R.P.M.
Lowdown Everything that We Are 1975 Your Sun My Sky Line in the Sand Gotta Let’s Fall in Love Again The Song Put a Little Lovin’ in Your Heart All of My Life Expresso Madureira Life Ain’t Nothing But a Good Thing Make Room for Love Can’t Get Enough The Winter of My Springs Tell Me What to Do		2010
Surreal
1. The Less You Know 2. Goodbye To Yesterday 3. Above The Night 4. Ain’t It Time 5. Capricorn Sun 6. Don’t Wanna Know 7. Restless As We Are 8. Rivers On The Sun 9. Don’t Break Me Down 10. The Stars From Here 11. To Be With You 12. This Must Be Love 13. The Way You Love 14. Thoughtful Fantasies		2012
Amplified Soul		2014
In Search of Better Days		2016