Jacob Collier at Paste Studio NYC live from The Manhattan Center

hey everyone we are live at the pace to do right now Jacob Collier Jacob thank you for being here man so congratulations to you because Jesse vol.2 is out in the world right now volumes 3 & 4 are gonna be out in the world and the soundcheck has sounded great and we'll dive into it further into this for volume release strategy after the first song but soundcheck is sounded great we can't wait to share what you do with the internet right now man what's coming up first thanks brother oh this is sky buff and it goes a little something like this [Music] [Music] [Applause] geez I [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Music] whoa do you think a woman sky [Music] genus do you feel [Music] [Music] we won't have to show us with [Music] [Applause] [Music] so you never know [Music] you think again see know who's always waiting [Music] always wit [Music] you [Music] Wow do you thank you man it sounds so good I really appreciate everybody coming here today and Jacob D sound outstanding can we talk just in case people are discovering you right now for the first time we're discovering the fact that this album is out there for the first time there's so many interesting things to talk about on Jessie volume 2 and about the entire project and can we start with some of the how important it was for you to include found sounds and interesting sounds and sounds from things that are very much not traditionally considered to be musical instruments and putting them on the album that's a really good question so I guess just to kind of set the scene I've spent the last couple of years making four albums it's like a 1 1 quadruple album and each album is like a different musical universe I suppose so they're they're from different sound worlds different spaces so Jessie volume 1 is orchestral so it's very broad it's like acoustic broad music Jessie volume 2 is acoustic cozy music just exactly like this like small spaces voices and things like that falling 3 is negative space craziness cult hip-hop kind of insanity electronic digital stuff and volume 4 is a combination of all these worlds with the human voice as the center I'm halfway through and in answer to a question I was brought up in a household filled with musicians but not necessarily musical instruments and so I was I guess I found myself in a scenario where anything that made a sound was an instrument and I would go into the kitchen and pillage pillage and pillage saucepans are great cups and and and things are good and if you take a marble and roll it across the floor it's excellent sort of recipes I suppose that I kind of learned and discovered and so I would record with these odd sounds and I don't about you but I like listening to music that sounds like a person's life and so for me if you use the things that you that you live with and by then the music kind of feels like it has your DNA in it I suppose and so it was also kind of fascination of mine and continues to be actually well did I think that the application of the garden shears in lawnmower and said in the deck of cards and all those things was very very well applied and it's nothing that I would have for one second considered have recording and put it on put on an album but did it sound so well the way that you have done it and can we also can we talk about the the guest artists on the album as well I mean from Christy Lita Becca who we have here today to Steve Vai I mean there's so many Jojo and Dodie Dodie you did one of these not too long ago but you talked a little bit about who you've collaborated with probably over a hundred names there are no rules it's just you know are they autumn and I'm do they make me feel good as a human being and so I've just kind of been thirsty and I've gone traveling and I've discovered and musicians that fascinate me really and whose music I am tickled by and so yeah Jesse volume two contains musicians such as Katherine tekele who's like a Northumbrian pipes Northumbrian pipes player from English is absolutely astonishing to gets a mermaid on who sit like a folk fiddler from Vermont I think in here in the US and then as you say there's Steve Vai that really is a Steve by mode season is an absolute magician a really crazy guy Joe Joe you mentioned Dodie becca christie lee moo moo sang guarde who's a sort of master vocalist from Molly who's just absolutely killing and yeah I've been I've been yeah I've been I've been traveling all over the place looking for musicians in on Volume one there's a musician called Hamid or kasseri who's a master Knauer musician in Kanawa is this street music from morocco and it's like and it's absolutely nuts it's really hypnotic and I travel to to Casablanca and I met with the guy and not not a word of English but we kind of made this song together and he then came over to the Royal Albert Hall for my concert there with the BBC Proms and it was his first time in the UK and he sang this song with me it was it's crazy the whole thing is a miraculous adventure I feel really really lucky to be fascinated for a living yeah thank you man we're stoked that's part of your miraculous adventure is happening here in this room right now yeah I do want to say that this is literally the stuff of dreams and I spent lots of my childhood recording multiple voices on top of each other often six but now I've got six singers in the room for including me and it's just such a privilege and thank you guys for doing it it's just so it's if it is [Applause] so we've got there's more music coming up is the second one you're doing off of Jesse volume two or what is what's coming up next oh this one is a song actually from my first steps going in my room and it's called hideaway and I've done a few iterations of this song but this feels like the first time we're doing it the way it was really imagined with the strings and the voice too so I'm really excited with essentially as long as I'm in tune [Music] [Music] [Music] and y'all ready yes [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] and he was [Music] you know that my strong [Music] like the car follows go far without researching [Music] [Music] like I never loved before [Music] [Music] whichever way the wind therefore me [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] down down down down down [Music] followed up down [Music] [Applause] [Music] now [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] man this is so much fun thank you again for bringing this to us today we appreciate it and it sounds great and I need to know I asked you like one sentence about it earlier but I would like to know I bet 99% of people who are watching this right now have no idea what that is that you're playing right now can you tell us about this instrument right in front of you yes yes I can sir this is called a harp edgy and it's a really bizarre thing and I'm only recently becoming acquainted with it I've been playing for about 2-3 months I guess and this is tuned in whole steps or tones and so it's a completely bizarre set of skills like you have to learn all these different shapes though on other instruments kind of a logical because I've been you playing it for longer but I love a challenge and this is such a challenge but the one at home I have has 16 strings so it goes from like there until there but this guy has this based and I can't get over it it's just absolutely insane it's like cost between slap bass and kind of guitar playing but then you can play these dents like cause like you can on a piano because the strings are so close to each other so it's the whole thing is just bananas and this is this is the first time you played that one is that true to shout out harp edgy foot hooked me up with us but it's it's incredible to have this that's the bottom no on a piano like we're talking serious load well man it sounds great harp edgy thank you and I wanted to before yeah go ahead before we move on to the third song I want to I don't know I don't think we got a chance to talk about the environment that we're in on the tapes on the walls I don't know if you've looked back and saw the talking heads and the Tom Petty tape and the John Coltrane and all that but there is I mean this is like a musical museum going back to the mid 50s 1953 is the oldest tape in here can we talk a little bit about no answer that you could give would possibly surprise me in any way could we can you talk about musical influences what inspired you while you're growing or while you're writing these this for volume Jessie yeah yeah I can't I can't say that I've ever rejected anything I've ever heard that sounds right yeah so I've always been super thirsty for all sorts of stuff but to sort of sum up my musical charted in maybe a few names Stevie Wonder and then Stevie Wonder's number two as well and then sting I Bobby McFerrin Earth Wind & Fire Johann Sebastian Bach been from Britain Igor Stravinsky Joni Mitchell Bob Dylan mmm Becca Stevens they're like a few different people but there were so many different flavors that I wanted to combine and so I know I guess I I thought that there might be a way to sort of create this compound of all the things I liked without taking things out and for me the exciting thing about creating music in 2019 and Beyond is that the idea of a genre risen and and categories it's just falling apart before our very ears and eyes and so now I think you can be a musician no matter what you love and so like I could be into opeth and I can be into what's the opposite over I think Joni Mitchell's pretty together Joni Mitchell yeah yeah yeah okay Joni Mitchell yeah awesome like a weird Bulgarian folk music or can our music like Hamid or whatever and and I believe there are bridges with all these different spaces so I think I just listened with these with with willing ears you know and I was lucky as a kid but because I had a snow at home where I was able to have musical discussions with my mom mostly and children can have as many ideas as there are ears to hear them I think and so when I was asking this question so but what happens if you add b-flat to an F minor chord like how does make you feel then that would be reciprocated and that sort of sense of study like emotional study and concentration fueled so much of my growth and still fuels me right now which is why I like if I find a harp edgy for example it just feels like an opportunity to expand rather than something have to close myself down into like I don't really think of myself as an instrumentalist per se even though I play a few instruments it's more about the music I think like playing the music it kind of sounds simple but playing the music and using the instrument as just like a means to an end I'm singing for me it's super important and it wasn't until I guess also 15 or 16 that I realized that Stevie one recorded all the instruments on the album store most of them which is amazing because I hadn't considered before them that it was possible but Stevie just makes music that feels really really damn good and that's the most important thing and so you get a sense of joy and it smells like Stevie Wonder right you can feel that's him because his fingerprints all over it but and and that's literally true but also I think he just it's one of those musical masterminds that can concentrate on multiple facets of what's going on whether it's the sound or the chords or the rhythm or the groove or the tone and he's when there's multi festivals so I would go back to my numbers net-net numbers one and two and say Stevie Wonder's my number one hero nice dude thank you for bringing it here today you're sitting in front of a Stevie Wonder tape when there's there's a police from the Orpheum 1979 tape right over there yeah we can do some tape shopping right as right off line there's a wrong Thunder review tape sitting on my desk right now so we can we can do a little bit of tape browsing and yeah dude there's plenty of friendly spirits here in this room and you are very much added to it right now so we appreciate it to know it yeah man of course dude this sounds great so there's there's more music right can you tell us what you're gonna do third today so when I woke up this morning I thought what can I do for the third song and I thought well sting wrote a tune called feels of God and then I thought well I could sing fields of gold but I've never played it on the harmonizer before no it's on a harmonizer that's a difference remit this is the harp Eddie I don't feel the how about you before so you have to bear with me because it's really really a bit of a mysterious thing to navigate so just I'll do fields of gold and who knows what's gonna happen okay here we go [Music] [Music] [Music] so you remember me when a west wind moves [Music] all the fuse body [Music] you'll forget the song in his jealous sky [Music] as realize [Music] so she took her love for the gays why among the fields warning [Music] hit his arm she fell Houser [Music] will you stay with me [Music] we were loved [Music] all the fields are bored [Music] manners arm she found [Music] see Oh [Music] I never made promises like and the finish on that I've broken ah [Music] Oh Oh [Music] [Music] as many years lost since those solid Oh [Music] well forgot [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Applause] all right thank you guys thank you everybody so much for coming through before we let you go Jacob can you introduce us to everybody please I'd love to okay we've got murakumo Michael Mayer that's my comment is that suit ridiculously killing over here my brand-new friend Julie easterland we met yesterday over here is the drama in my band his name's Christian human this is the legendary banker Stevens I'm over here we have Malika taro lien is that right all right absolute loss to my musical all right well thank you so much for coming here today and best of luck on Jessie - and Jessie 3 and Jessie for Jessie three and four gonna come out in the coming months number two is out in the world right now and you've got there's three tour dates that I know about you've got a audio in Sao Paulo that's happening November 5th November 8th year at Teatro fort Eric's and Widow Cyrus on the tenth year at Club subterranea in providencia Chile enjoy all of them man that sounds like a not a bad part of the world to be spending time in so enjoy it travel safely please and dude come back any time we're here doing this all the time so if you want to come back do amazing alrighty thanks dude you

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Rating: 4.9445257 out of 5

Keywords: Paste Magazine, Paste Music, Daytrotter, acoustic session, acoustic performance, live music, manhattan center, Paste Studio, Paste Studio NYC, full session, singer, songwriter, live from new york, Jacob Collier, sky above, djesse, hideaway, fields of gold, sting, cover

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Length: 33min 8sec (1988 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 23 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/mrkeys23]

This was a low key appearance. Wonderful for us Jacob geeks, not sure if I'd recommend it for the newbies. When you are steeped in his lore and then see he actually took time to become a virtuoso with that harpeggi thing, it's just another amazement. And the questions were pretty good. A new part of Sky Above!!! Like I say, fun for the geeks.

[u/ekfALLYALL]

wow

[u/robie10321]

Amazing performance!