Spectacular glorious musical wizardry Jacob Collier

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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

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so no one knows why

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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

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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

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good night

why the stars they all say it’s common

little closer to me so many things I

want you to see now

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and every soul there’s need to grow old

just speed up the passing of time I

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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

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sky above what are you dreaming

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seems like you’re all alone do you feel

free

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I can see

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more than is clear to me

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so come on

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let me feel free

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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

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down below chasing the afterglow we

won’t have everything do so you tell us

we’re free

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so open up yeah singing every now and

then every now and then every number you

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gonna think of home

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Oh was always waiting always waitin

was always waiting

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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

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same take me anywhere you want you know

that my love is strong in my heart

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Sophie

like the car follow stone find what I’ve

been searching for

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touch

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like I’ve never loved before in a place

that I do

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which there will be a place for me

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[Laughter]

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when the rain falls down falling down

down down

when the wave falls down

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down down down to the sea when we fold

up when the rain falls down when the

rain falls down

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see you when the wave falls down

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fill the skies filled

let me see it tomorrow

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trusty wherever I go

find a hole

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[Laughter]

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Wow

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so take me anywhere you wanna go now my

love is so strong

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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

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with your love is my protection

I’ll be world of your projection and we

are all singing songs of your affection

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with rhymes to your perfection

in my eyes see a reflection

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of you

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I see you clearly now hold you dearly

now the Sun is in my eyes

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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

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if you can see me were just holding

while the internet figures herself out

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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

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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

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well summers in when the trees are harsh

and white with snow

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singing Danny Boy I love you so

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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

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oh wow Wow

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Danny Boy I love you so

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I’ll be there

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when someone’s in the matter tiny boy

you know I love you you know I love

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so daddy

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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