Little bit of mellow human harmony to get your Sunday started on the right note. Pun so, so intended.
English musician Jacob Collier is variously described as a "musical prodigy", a "multi-instrumental musical maximalist", and "one of the most inventive and gifted musicians working today". The 29 year-old has six Grammys and two Album of the Year nominations. His newest record, Djesse Vol. 4, features collaborations with artists from Brandi Carlisle to Chris Martin to Steve Vai to Kirk Franklin to Camilo to Anoushka Shankar. And until yesterday, I'd never heard of him.
As frequently happens late into the evening on weekends, I was wandering around the musical interwebs when I stumbled upon Collier. It wasn't his music that I found so interesting. Rather his habit of turning his live audiences into harmonic musical partners. For example:
Collier's critics say his prolific energy means he never stays in one place, musically, long enough to have a real voice of his own. It's true that his stuff is all over the place, from lullabyes to fuzzy pop rock to ethereal new agey. It strikes me that in that diversity is a uniqueness. I think I'll celebrate his whole catalogue. Even the weird stuff.
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