Jacob Collier Dives Into The Details Of "Djesse Vol. 2," His Latest Album

Jacob Collier’s "Djesse - Volume 2" marks the midpoint of an epic project, 40-plus songs spanning 4 volumes that each create distinct musical worlds. "Volume 2" finds Jacob exploring intimate, acoustic spaces with his singular sound. Collier performed, produced, engineered and composed nearly everything himself while simultaneously welcoming a huge new network of collaborators into his world.
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[@ryderlippman3105]

"Jacob Coll-EAR!"

[@keiichiplays2381]

His face though 🤣

[@pahanaama]

Cool ear Jacob

[@onesyphorus]

first comnent to the first remark

[@nathanielatkin304]

better than his yamaha interview where he was called colyay

[@catherineluk2414]

i RAN to the comments

[@Mrpaladino16]

I feel very lucky to live in the same timeline as this guy

[@nolanneal]

Luigi Ciammariconi same!

[@MHSPatriot2005]

Agreed! I've been incredibly depressed for the past couple of months and discovering his music has sparked something in the that I haven't felt in years! Yesterday, when listening to "All I Need" and "Sleeping On My Dreams", I was dancing down the sidewalk without a care in the world! The amount of talent this human being has is baffling, and he just seems like such a wonderful soul.

[@jurajason]

I agree!!!

[@samwebber3109]

The interviewer or jacob

[@EHCG0001]

Jacob wanted to learn music. Now music learns Jacob.

[@Emenut]

I love when i can hear bits of jacobeanphylosophy

[@xJaGG3d]

"The best thing you can gift to the world as a musician is a vision of what they could be." Wow.

[@SgtMacska]

That sentence is so real, and such a good summary of what he is

[@alecdickinson]

10:23 "For me the voice is the most powerful instrument of all time, and everyone has one..." brilliant.

[@Matthewrents]

"I enjoy the haunting of my tickles." - Jacob Collier, 2019.

[@musicofforester]

Haa was literally about to comment this

[@Magere-Kwark]

22:24

[@brantl]

I could listen to him talk about music all day

[@MisterstereoOso]

Brant Dunks same here !

[@jasminedakota3958]

Same

[@Juanah92]

Music and life

[@PurpleZebras150]

His answer to the second audience member's question hit me hard 24:15

[@josiewhite8208]

For real though!!

[@cinar.ozgun.akpolat]

"Don't wait for things to be possible before doing them, because they become possible when you start doing them." J.C / 2019

[@luscao8444]

This is the most pure true.

[@west4coast77]

Jacob is not only an extraordinary musician but a deep and analytical thinker. Thanks for posting.

[@achenarmyst2156]

A linguistic analysis on the relation of musical and verbal structure would be a worthwile challenge.

[@matiascova]

What surprises me the most about his talent is how well he can articulate his views with instantaneous examples of pitch, tempo, polyrythms, harmony, etc... Its just breathtaking, I cannot imaging what it would feel like to have those direct connections between sound and vision.

[@rheniushudson]

"I don't think of myself as an instrumentalist" "I don't think of myself a singer" - Jacob Collier, 2019

[@OscarGeronimo]

Pretty soon we'll start hearing "I don't think of myself as a" "I don't think of myself as" "I don't think of myself" "I don't think of" "I don't think" "I don't" "I" ""

[@superblondeDotOrg]

@@OscarGeronimo " " ... the sound of one hand clapping

[@anattablue]

@@OscarGeronimo 13:50

[@OscarGeronimo]

@@anattablue The phenomena of experiencing the totality of existence... life is distance, my friends. 🤙🏽🐚👂🏾👁️👄👁️

[@MHSPatriot2005]

@@OscarGeronimo There's a clip of him talking about living in the moment because our lives will not mean more at the end than it does right now. 🙌

[@WesleyUden]

"The best thing you could gift to the world as a musician, is a vision of what they could be"

[@PaulsonJeanty]

💯⚡

[@moontaeilsotherhalf614]

Not only his skills and creativity, but also his mentality and personality, that I adore. Especially yhe way he answered the last person's question. That hits me hard ngl. God, thank you for letting me born as the same age as him and recognising him. I happened to find out abt him actually almost a decade I suppose, but never really checked him out, but this quarantine times. Stay healthy and inspiring, Man.

[@quinnmaley5109]

Brilliant Piece on Swing Percentages: Starting at 8:56

[@ManelRuivo]

yes. thats why i came here! thanks!

[@silask.1966]

I want Djesse volume 3 now!!

[@razzerraw1108]

Silas Kruip I want Djesse volume 3 now !!!

[@silask.1966]

RazzerRaw no I want volume 3 now!!!!😂😂

[@razzerraw1108]

@@silask.1966 No no I want Volume 3 now !!! P.S Did you hear the Demo's of them ??

[@silask.1966]

RazzerRaw demo‘s?? Tell me more 🤔

[@silask.1966]

RazzerRaw ok yeah found them. Sounds fantastic 🥳🥳🥳gets me even more hyped

[@achenarmyst2156]

He‘s wearing his soul on his skin.

[@beautifuldecorating]

This is the lesson I needed to hear. I have, like many I am sure, a undeniable confidence in my musical language, but I have not nurtured it - I’m 42 now and ready to ‘talk’ , explore, express , fail, improve, astound and I am seriously not blowing my own trumpet (I can’t play one 😆 ) its just I really really know its there waiting for me. I didn’t know where to begin, but Jacob really has directed me here. I know with time given to it I can breathe it. His answers sound rehearsed and I don’t mean that as a criticism , I am astounded how he can say so much so fluently on such a deep level. It’s like woah! It’s like he has even edited time itself to give such amazing answers.

[@notmagicok7612]

just the look on jacob colliers face when he said. "Jacob Coll-Ear"

[@philipeick-vocalmusic]

What an amazing, incredible, wise and inspiring human being. I'm stunned. Great interview, great audience questions.

[@Juanah92]

You can tell he learns a lot about life through music, and a lot about music through life. The two concepts are so poetically intertwined for him. It’s fascinating. Jacob is I undoubtedly one of the few contagiously happy and positive humans I’ve come across

[@alecdickinson]

12:59 "each album (in Djesse) is actually categorized around the amount of space around sound" DV1 (acoustic sound from a distance, orchestral music), DV2 (acoustic sound from a smaller distance ), DV3 (negative distance, electronics), DV4 (re emergence of distance, the listener is actually the music themselves...)

[@crescenzodicecco3310]

"I think that if you're fearless and move without thinking too fast, you do shine through AND Alot of what making music is about is accepting what comes out of that AND Cause a lot of that is a bit weird AND AND if you do music making right ... you have to face yourself AND you have to learn who you are AND what comes out when you sit on the tap AND how much of that you can accept, AND refine AND discus AND how much is healthy to think about AND how much is healthy to accept as true." thanks Jacob

[@elmyrvl]

Worth my 30mins. I love this guy who did the interview. You ask right questions and let the artist talk his mind. I feel like listening to an old man. Love you Jacob.

[@Proghead88]

Pure genius. Pure class. Pure heart.

[@caitlinjopepe541]

That 57% swing percentage blew my mind, it's so uniquely Jacob!

[@anto2593]

I believe he's doing a 4/7 swing actually. I felt the same, and i explored the maths. 4/7 is 0.5714, which is really close to 57%. So he's subdividing in 7, and playing the first and fifth subdivision; 0/7 and 4/7.

[@keiichiplays2381]

This video is 30 minutes of Jacob's genius

[@gangsterleo1]

Wooow. This is so real and so authentic and so humble and so fascinating. Thanks for your Insides and thanks for being You, so I can be more of me. Life is so simple and yet so complex and I find it so inspiring and affirming and helpful to see and listen to somebody like Jacob. The world around us can suggest so many things and everybody lives out their own truth and sometimes that can be a little bit confusing. But things like this remind me to focus more and more on myself and what makes me feel good and exciting and what strucks a chord in my mind and in my heart, so i can be of myself and bring more of my true side into the world :)

[@benedekdevich7825]

True beautiful words! We need you Jacob!

[@Dabro1010]

I love Jacob's comments about sound and space in music. I've always tried to experiment with this whenever I try to make music too; such as distance and 'shape' of a sound. But also changing the distance and shape through the track to create more interest. It's a great addition and extra tool for music making/enjoyment

[@jackf6788]

Genuinely cannot believe how wise and mature this guy is for his age. Combine that with his musical talents and you’ve got a man with a brain the size of the solar system!

[@MahatMagandi93]

Jacob is always so edifying! Thanks for the great interview.

[@chrisrogersismusic8355]

An overused comment, but it fits... I'm a simple man. I see Jacob Collier, I click.

[@jasminedakota3958]

Ok..

[@kiracp1296]

I feel u

[@assamaavideo4492]

Jacob should be protected at all costs, this man will be the Bach of our times.

[@iliatilev]

awesome interview .. Jacob is a genius 🙌

[@r315rer]

What a wonderful,awe-inspiring interview from an enormous talented, super person. Thank you . A gifted teacher as well as a phenomenal performer. Jacob gives me great hope for the future of music.

[@razzz2042]

"THANK YOU" - Jacob Collier, wise man

[@Max-jf5vu]

Fascinating interview!

[@cleocss]

What a brilliant interview. So inspiring and honest on so many levels.

[@florriemccarthy2457]

I love how the interviewer seems not massively sure of what he is talking about, but gives jacob lots of time to talk, and seems to be very attentive of what jacob is saying

[@conlee_1164]

Thank you for being Jacob !! 😊💜💫

[@samuelbryan9737]

come on jacob !!! I was at my absent from this planet during ur interview .... DOPE

[@eleyesl]

Jacob Collier is amazing but I don't think this interviewer knew much about him. He knew what Jacob had done but hasn't experienced the joy of entering Jacob's universe. He almost seemed more interested in the musicians Jacob has collaborated with and those experiences rather than learning about Jacob himself. Luckily Jacob will still Jacob and drop knowledge

[@ericsiegel1087]

well he mispronounced his last name so cant say he knows too much about him lmao

[@MHSPatriot2005]

What a fascinating and beautiful being! Very fortunate to have discovered him.

[@tr9936]

Pure heart...that’s why we love’im

[@Kalmanheyn]

Jacob Collier on swing percentages (9:00) is why I’m obsessed with him!

[@Applebutter52]

I've been trying to figure the way the djesse albums are categorized forever, and I had no idea he'd told the public! I knew the sounds were totally separate, but when I tried thinking about the genre, or the instruments, or the layering, I couldn't find what was unique in the albums. Then he just says it at 13:10 This is one of the best interviews I've seen. Keep up the good work y'all

[@NEVa1080]

Thank you Jacob ) It is always glad to see and hear you. But how can it sometimes be difficult to remain objective from the position of the subject and not to lose control of one’s own thoughts. Seeing the whole picture from beginning to end, clearly understanding the goal - something more significant than the fullness of self-realization and hone mastery. An interesting thought was made, among many others, about expanding the boundaries of perception with any available expressive means. Definitely Beauty will save the World.

[@Rdac0]

57% is the septuplet swing

[@graysonwilson-cacciapalle7989]

Rdaco oh cool, I gathered quintuplet from 80, but didn’t bother thinking about the math for 57- makes more sense than an arbitrary number off the top of his head

[@LeftLN]

Wow! So much knowledge and understanding!

[@donotoliver]

that end doe... really moving words

[@bferrell1797]

Fascinating! Musical genius AND philosopher! :)

[@AnjaHuebel1]

That was fascinating. So insightful. He's got such important things to say about life as well as about music-making!

[@KeeperOfOrchards]

not disappointed, it’s pretty much what i would have expected: a very heartfelt while honest/genuine/humble and well articulated sharing of your standpoint & perspectives, obviously enlightened through years of growth in fertile ground (so rare & important, i-e your context/family etc) now able to enlighten & inspire at such young age, and even though your own generation might have a hard time appreciating/following/relating to the kind of depth of authenticity & natural truths you are freely open to give out, simply because it has been so often abused, manipulated & taken hostage by an industry which fully misgauged their needs, an industry blinded by greed and any advantage that can be taken out of the youth, capitalizing on their inner thirst for harmony, creativity & beauty (in other words, on their thirst for God as the missing piece of their heart’s puzzle -unknowingly) but only serving them the cold dishes of lame ‘Top 10 hits’ type productions, purposefully [or resulting in] limiting the artistry & the potential innovative creativity of so many talented artists out there... a generation therefore that isn’t used to have a skillful, talented prodigy-like artist showing such rich inner life & fire in sharing his vision and intricate perceptions of the world of music senses, its divine-like mechanisms and attributes, because they have for so long & since their most tender age, bought into the lies of aberrant simplification of art, shamefully packaged for them as dumbing down consumables for a more conveniently controllable outcome & revenues... But this might be your calling & your field of mission: to reclaim this stolen & abused territory & help making it what it was always supposed to be, free of ties, pure/raw/authentic while being also the beautiful fruit of a personal drive of educated exploring as opposed to random & shapeless... I only sense a will to encourage you in your endeavor & to strengthen your determination to never be boxed-in, because over time, all the deceived & used people here-above mentioned will grow more & more into a deeper understanding & appreciation of what music can actually be, as well as how unexpectedly innovative & fun the performance & the study of it. It’s a pleasure to behold what’s happening with & through your person in these matters, just make sure you keep humble because you will logically be tempted to look in the mirror & people will reject that, so always be outward to them, not inward (the perception & gauge-appreciation of which can really appear to be some delicate balance to manage, but if you have God’s HS in you, he inspires how & prompts ways to overcome it) This whole thing which i’m sure you worked real hard but also took great pleasure at realizing, potentially has a risky ‘hourglass’ written all over it, if only because in the end, while it is yours to possess & fructify (which obviously you apply yourself to & excel at), it is still a ‘gift’ to start with, a set of abilities & a drive that is powered by something that is beyond yourself & for a purpose, like a divine calling of some kind (which you may or may not recognize at this point, which is fine because it is probably best to never mention it yourself as it could greatly be misperceived: i-e the apparent oddness & unfairness of it, making others feel like “why are YOU so special & i’m not” kinda thing) But yeah, in the end, let’s think about our collective sense of harmony & beauty, its apparent chaotic order & our common organic-like taste for psychologically affordable/ comfortably reassuring realities & lifestyles... tied to love & respect... where does it all come from? why is it in us BEFORE we even conceive of it, like if we’ve been coded/programmed at genetic level for it, because our true root & origin is made of the same ‘stuff’, the all inspiring well of the Spirit of an awesome designer/creator, whom image(ination) we were made in the like of.

[@achenarmyst2156]

SHALL BLOSSOM RECORDS / KEEPER / F.S.A.M. All that beauty is essentially human, not godlike.

[@conlee_1164]

" Comparison is the thief of joy" ~ Theodore Roosevelt

[@KeeperOfOrchards]

CLF it depends: i’d say that CAREFULLY CHOSEN & ‘on point comparison’ often brings well needed understanding (think Jesus’ parables, allegories & metaphors for instance😉) which opens heart & mind, bringing greater perception of enlightenment and joy/satisfaction in the process (although too much knowledge & revelation can also puff up &/or cause an increase in worry) so yeah, it all ‘depends’ 🤔👍

[@KeeperOfOrchards]

Achenar Myst well, evidently ‘human’ is LESSER than ‘godlike’, however, beauty in gifts & talents (all inherited from the creator’s endowing favors, love for his original creation “and it was good” [Genesis] and generosity) is by definition the expression of godlike, since we do not create beauty, it is there already BEFORE we manage to do something with it, we ‘compose’ out of it, all its elements are existing whether we exist or not, whether we use it or not... It’s like maths... maths are in this universe before we even touched the surface of discovering the majesty if its magnitude🤔😉👍

[@darnitt4406]

Whenever you have an interview with Jacob you should have at least half an hour planned in per question asked, 'cause you just know he's gonna inspire the hell out of you with a 15 minute monologue about life.

[@spifflord308]

The expression on the interviewer's face while Jacob is talking about each volume of Djesse! 😂

[@jasminedakota3958]

Timestamp!!

[@xhalfmoon6293]

“THANK YOUU!!”

[@nr197]

This guy! This. Guy.

[@ialutsil]

For me, the reflexion of the Jacob Collier work is about "sound and proximity" (like the human -anthropological- alternative to distance).

[@achenarmyst2156]

Attachment.

[@melodyplayground]

I am completely and utterly amazed. Jacob Collier collabed with Coldplay. This is the most happiest and most wonderful collab in music history. God. Is. Real.

[@jkl.guitar]

love every second I get to hear this mans mind and soul! It would be AWESOME if somebody made a swing percentage calculator... or maybe it exists already?

[@alecdickinson]

8:12 "A lot of my learning was about experimenting and trying things out"

[@montigol]

great interview

[@ayooluwakolawole]

I love this man.

[@aeralix9423]

14:19 underrated moment

[@captainkiwi77]

I love the no shoes going on

[@lilackey]

I love the protagonist of barefoot performance: morna's diva CESÁRIA ÉVORA 🙏💞

[@achenarmyst2156]

Victoria Mullova on a Mozart album.

[@JeiShian]

we all love the mad scientist that is Jacob but I think we should give the interviewer some appreciation for the excellent job too. Please let him interview more other musicians!

[@vexingash6012]

That fact that he has no socks or shoes on makes me love him even more 😂

[@MisterstereoOso]

Open,spontaneous, so,so bright, might he be a genius ? I dunno,just love hearing him expound his ideas....

[@AnjaHuebel1]

Genius is just a word. Jacob is Jacob. He dares to be Jacob. What an inspiration!

[@tiyinoluwaolushola-alao5095]

"i enjoy the haunting of my tickles" 🌝😂

[@PaulsonJeanty]

😂

[@lolztillirolz47]

"I enjoy the haunting of my Tickles" - Jacob Collier 2019

[@diplomat2623]

There was soo much truth in his last answer. 💯💯💯💯💯

[@tane4652]

Guy walking past at 4:06 is probably listening to his Jacob Collier playlist and thinking, "I'd love to meet this guy!"

[@blazbohinc4964]

Soo.. Djesse vol.2 came out what was it 2 months ago? I'm already hungry for more, have listened to vol.2 100 times over already.. along with complete technical analysis

[@gabrielpianolad2462]

No shoes, of course XD

[@CamiloJamesGuitar]

So many profound truths. Jacob is brilliant 🎼

[@justingarcia7722]

His thematic use of fundamentally non harmonic concepts like physical distance, how he uses temperament as an emotional device...it's super fascinating and why he's the paradigm for music we needed. Sure contemporary music has exhausted many harmonic tropes and motifs, enter Jacob, he introduces sonics in a new way, reimagines the entire harmonic landscape with integrated microtonality, expands rhythmic devices..etc it's a great time to be a witness of music and art.

[@superblondeDotOrg]

"super fascinating"? it is what any recording engineer does every day, 100 times a day. the beatles did it 50 years ago on magnetic strips of tape.

[@justingarcia7722]

@@superblondeDotOrg I love the Beatles but they certainly didn't shift temperament (literal temperament, like shifting from 432 to 440) mid song to evoke a shift in emotion. Jacob takes a much more dimensionally approach to music making which is innovative and really has more in common with early opera and ballet then most modern music but he uses these tools to tell a story and not just to be elusive. Maybe you misunderstood my point. Reminds me of Eduard Hanslicks writing on aesthetics and the use of non intentionally aesthetic phenomena used in the evocation of emotional effect in composition

[@superblondeDotOrg]

@@justingarcia7722 personally i hope he would spend his time on something fundamentally better/more important like getting a music MA degree and destroying Riemannian theory, especially it's notation system. mostly collier always talks about expressing & projecting emotions yet there is still no method to denote it on a piece of paper for a musician

[@justingarcia7722]

@@superblondeDotOrg I think getting his music to people's ears is most important, personally, and he's clearly influencing/reaching out to many. For me that's the ultimate goal of music. So I understand what you are saying but I suppose that's just a fundamental disagreement

[@morchangstudios]

Great interview

[@aybee63]

Final cut express? That would've been a piece of cake compared with using Notator, which I was using in the 80's!

[@alecdickinson]

7:50 "If I'm a storyteller, I need to get the right balance between grammar and storytelling, but actually grammar should be internalized by then, otherwise you are going to be in trouble..."

[@diplomat2623]

This is a REAL artist!!!

[@bronney]

Musician does interview holding a mic, perfect scenario for reception :)

[@Kaladin2077]

No wonder Jacob has a cold with them bare feet, bless him.

[@mattdeveer3102]

The vol. 3 and 4 teases were too much!

[@deuteriumjones]

Lots of people ragging on the host, but this is the best J.C. Interview... so...

[@onesyphorus]

9:09 interviewer vibin'

[@Prismaticist]

whoa jacob collier build interview lol

[@ronniefranco512]

9:00 66% sounds so cool

[@MatarikiStarpath]

Eloquence personified. That's Jacob.

[@eliecanetti]

I wish Jacob had been there to counsel a 20-year old me.

[@susannahXD]

No-one: Jacob: shoes are unnecessary Everyone from now on: barefoot interviews are the only way

[@richtarechjakub]

Someone once said "there are no more musical geniuses like Mozart today". Well, here he is guys.

[@alecdickinson]

10:43 "I guess you can think of music in terms of Rhythm, Melody, Harmony and Sound"

[@putnamizer]

Wow this kid gets it

[@Sara-qw7lc]

Why is he not wearing shoes? Also, I just found him today and binge listened to his music and damn wish I found him sooner! What are some of your favorites form him?

[@MalachiVereen]

Wise genius

[@mitchelcosta4411]

Love Jacob shoes

[@singit3630]

25:30...it would be like relocating then Google translating your way through a foreign country...