Spectacular, glorious, musical wizardry | Jacob Collier

[Music] hello friends how's it going it's good to see you my name is Jacob Collier and I'm live all the way from London North London I'm quarantined at home I'm playing the piano right now it is so so nice about to do this I'm gonna sing you some songs for the next 30 minutes or so I've got a few songs to play and this is just it's it's a nice Street but I make some music it feels like making music is one of the more universal of the things that we could be doing right now I'm gonna kick off with a song of mine it's called making me cry and it goes just like this you ready in every sea there's a mouth of a river where waterful riches flow down why do they say [Music] so no one knows why [Music] in every mouth there's a word forgiveness that melts or the eyes to the ground why do you sigh see I don't know I why does the sky fall down like war to let it flow again [Music] so come a little close to the meter so many things I wanted to see singing every laugh is the soul of all of those tears you've had for so long would you make me cry let me run try in every tear are the eyes of a father and mother that brought you to see sing lullaby [Music] good night why the stars they all say it's common little closer to me so many things I want you to see now [Music] and every soul there's need to grow old just speed up the passing of time I [Music] don't know why but it makes me thank you very much that was a make me cry welcome if you're just joining us my name is Jacob Collier and I'm live from London which is where I live I'm here with my family and I'm just here hanging out with you today for 30 minutes so it's so nice to see you genuinely where are you watching from out of interest I would love to know where you're where you're tuning in from feel like Ted has one of those universal audiences would be great to bring all these locations together I'm going to move on and play another song while I'm waiting for your responses and this one is called sky above I've just got my phone here to have a look at where you guys are coming from let me see so people from Denver Colorado what's up you guys Germany superb Southern California also very superb keep them coming keep them coming this is so cool sky above and a normal scene this one in three parts but there's only one of me I was supposed to be on tour this period of time but now I'm all at home like many musicians around the world so I'm gonna sing all the parts of my own I hope you'll forgive me and sing along if you do know something that'd be really nice Santa Barbara Peru Ontario Canada this is amazing it's a worldwide community welcome indeed welcome indeed [Music] sky above what are you dreaming [Music] seems like you're all alone do you feel free [Music] I can see [Music] more than is clear to me [Music] so come on [Music] let me feel free [Music] [Music] seen every now and then you see the whole sky through what can we learn from you when I'm Tina Stearns do you do we feel free [Music] down below chasing the afterglow we won't have everything do so you tell us we're free [Music] so open up yeah singing every now and then every now and then every number you [Music] gonna think of home [Music] Oh was always waiting always waitin was always waiting [Music] thank you very much that was a no sky above how are you all doing it's a very strange time to be alive as a human being you think about this a lot recently all sorts of unknowns at first times people trying to figure out what to do with free time what to do with involved time and in a brand new way it's a it's a fascinating challenge there is any that this is extreme at togetherness I suppose I'm feeling with the world everything feels like it's uniting and in a particular kind of a way and everything also feels very disparate and so much that's like an extension of our of our ordinary lives because we're also connected and we're also also disparate but feel like now we're so definitively disparate that potentially once this is all over we can come together like never before I'm very very excited about that I'm forever in gratitude to the extraordinary health care workers who are keeping us all in check and who are holding our forts and keep our communities strong it's it's really a wild thing too to be attending to from a distance I suppose everything feels very invisible but yet so huge so I feel like at least I can make some music and make sense of it for myself we've got makes any sense let's see I've got a couple more a couple locations Limpopo South Africa that's a long way away that's a very long way away Fort Lauderdale Florida Philippines Thailand Poland Costa Rica Copenhagen and Denmark Indonesia this is just wow this is blowing my mind this room is quite small and I'm quite small but there's also people listening it's why it's very nice I'm gonna play a song called hideaway so I've spent the last couple of years making four albums because I just can't I can't help myself it's called Jesse DJ esse that's that's the sort of quadruple album and each arm is like a different universe like a different musical space I suppose and that the two songs are just playable from Jesse vol 2 which is quite cosy an acoustic feeling Jesse vol 1 it's like an orchestral record it's really broadened and sort of glorious and the album was some sort of currently finish off is called Jesse vol 3 which is extremely wild and electronic and groovy and hip-hop and R&B and soul II so there's all different universes I'm currently inhabiting but I'm going to jump right back to before the whole Jessie Avenger to an album I created called in my room I recorded it in this exact room all on my own that's my first album and this was the first song that I ever released from the album it's a very important song to me this one's called hideaway thank you thank you very much [Music] same take me anywhere you want you know that my love is strong in my heart [Music] Sophie like the car follow stone find what I've been searching for [Music] [Music] [Music] touch [Music] like I've never loved before in a place that I do [Music] ha which there will be a place for me [Music] Oh [Laughter] [Music] [Music] ha [Music] [Music] when the rain falls down falling down down down when the wave falls down [Music] Oh [Music] down down down to the sea when we fold up when the rain falls down when the rain falls down [Music] [Music] see you when the wave falls down [Music] fill the skies filled let me see it tomorrow [Music] trusty wherever I go find a hole [Music] Oh [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Wow [Music] so take me anywhere you wanna go now my love is so strong [Music] ah thank you very much that was a that was hideaway it was just a song I wrote in this very room kind of about this very room actually this is kind of my hideaway it's like a little treasure trove I have in my family home where I guess many of us is spending time nowadays I've just been notified that about 9,000 people are watching which is really really cool if you're just tuning in welcome to my humble abode and to the glorious world of Ted and I've played three songs so far there are two more songs to go the next song is rather exciting because I've never ever played this song before ever to anybody I'm a master procrastinator down about you I'm very good at procrastinating and in in procrastination for finishing this album I'm currently working on called Jessie vol 3 which will come out soon I promise you I wrote a song last week and no one knows I haven't even told my friends about this this is just really just you guys have putting this in the first time and it's a song that is there is a bit it was a bit of an escape from the thing I was doing but I quite liked it and I just thought why not I play it today because I like it want to do something for the first time live and I like doing that in concerts but seeing as there are no concerts nowadays it's nice to do it right here from hope so this is a brand new song literally world premiere of this song forgive me for just not knowing how it goes yet it's called how's it called it's called the Sun is in your eyes that's what's called and it's beautiful weather here in UK so the Sun was indeed in my eyes earlier on something it's quite short remember the words the Sun is in your eyes the Sun is in your eyes throw me the cold throw me the cold cold water of your smile again to take me by surprise you take me by surprise throw me the ball throw me the ball ball treasure of your lips again you leave me in the right direction [Music] with your love is my protection I'll be world of your projection and we are all singing songs of your affection [Music] with rhymes to your perfection in my eyes see a reflection [Music] of you [Music] I see you clearly now hold you dearly now the Sun is in my eyes [Music] there you go well premiere Wow oh that was called the Sun is in your eyes and you're just tuning in and that's cool and I have one more song for you I think we have a little bit of time remaining libertine remaining hope that the connections cause is that the Internet is dropping out one second [Music] [Music] if you can see me were just holding while the internet figures herself out [Music] [Music] they go back good to see you again so I think my internet is being but a little bit shaky I apologize for that I have one more song if you'd like to stick around please do this is a song that you may know it's one of my most favorite songs in the world and it's a very old song and it's called Danny Boy it's a folk song Danny Boy and I figured that since it's one of my most favourite songs I would finish today by playing Danny Boyd for you if you're still around that's fantastic trying to tell what key to play Danny Boy in they might start in d-flat that's quite low actually no I think I'll stone deaf I'll sew an F but we'll see where we end up it might be not F probably won't be F yeah sounds good [Music] [Music] Oh Danny Boy the pipes the pipes are calling from Glen to Glen and down the mountain side the summer's gone are gone and all the Roses fall it's you as you school when I must bye-bye [Music] well summers in when the trees are harsh and white with snow [Music] [Music] singing Danny Boy I love you so [Music] Oh Danny Boy the pipes the pipes are calling from Glen Ellyn down the mountainside the summer's gone through this phone as soon as he was gone [Music] oh wow Wow [Music] Danny Boy I love you so [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] I'll be there [Music] Oh [Music] when someone's in the matter tiny boy you know I love you you know I love [Music] ah so daddy [Music] Oh [Music] so [Music] [Music] thank you very much that was Danny Boy one of my most favorite songs and I've never played like that before I kind of kind of improvised in the middle I wasn't expecting that but I went through some keys and we ended up in a major for those of you who are asking in the comments a major so we moved down a minor third that concludes today's little concert from home it's so so nice to see you it's nice to meet some of you nice to see some of you again my name is jacob collier if you're just tuning in now I apologize for the fact that this is over but you can go back and re-watch it on Ted's page after this from wherever you are in the world I'm sending you lots of love I'm sending you a reminder that we're one family the human being race is a family and we will come through this we've come through greater challenges in this and if we continue to make music have conversations keep our doors open so to speak with each other I think that we will emerge from this stronger than ever before in the meantime stay at home if you can stay safe give each other love and it's absolutely wonderful to spend half an hour with you I'll see you again sometime see you very soon

Channel: TED

Views: 451,842

Rating: 4.9429178 out of 5

Keywords: TEDTalk, TEDTalks, TED Talk, TED Talks, music, live music, performance, Jacob Collier, art

Id: JWRqI2ZRHWQ

Length: 37min 27sec (2247 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 17 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/ephoria2029]

This is so beautiful!! Is there a full version of the lyrics? Some words are vague to me :'(

I am trying my best here, asking for your kind correction:

The sun is in your eyes

Throw me the cold, throw me the cold cold water of your smile again

To take me by surprise, you take me by surprise

Throw me the bold, throw me the bold bold treasure of your lips again

And where I go, you lead me in the right direction

With your love is my protection

I'll be world of your projection

And where I go, singing songs of your affection

With rhymes to your perfection

In my eyes see a reflection of you

I see you clearly now

I hold you dearly now

The sun is in my eyes

[u/charlotte-w-reddit]

holy smokes, such a sweet song.

[u/Daria2005]

woah thats beautiful!

[u/callmeskezo]

Time To Rest Your Weary Head 2.0