New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Today, multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, producer, arranger and two-time GRAMMY award-winner Jacob Collier releases his new album Djesse - Volume 2 via Hajanga Records in exclusive license to Decca/Geffen/Universal Music.
Volume 2 marks the midpoint of Djesse, an epic, four-LP project spanning 40-plus songs that all explore distinct musical styles. Collier crafted much of Volume 2 from the home studio in his childhood, London bedroom, performing, producing, engineering, and composing nearly everything himself. Following on from Volume 1, which explored the limitlessness of orchestral and choral music, this latest instalment focuses on the intimacy and closeness of smaller acoustic spaces, whilst simultaneously welcoming a huge new network of collaborators.
Djesse - Volume 2 features avant-soul singer Lianne La Havas, UK YouTube sensation dodie, Grammy-winning Malian superstar Oumou Sangaré, Chris Thile, JoJo, Sam Amidon, Steve Vai, Becca Stevens, and MARO.
Volume 2 has featured four singles. 'Make Me Cry' was the first and was coupled with an immersive 360 virtual-reality music video, which brings Collier's musical world to life in a typically otherworldly, imaginative and technologically boundary-pushing fashion. The 360° music video for 'Make Me Cry' is available here.The album also features Collier's collaboration with British YouTube star dodie, which involved the pair joining forces for an original adaptation of The Beatles' 'Here Comes The Sun'. D
Collier's take on the classic 'Moon River' was the third single. An a cappella master class in harmony created with 5,000 of his own vocal recordings and a dizzying array of friends, from Chris
Martin and Tori
Kelly to
Ty Dolla $ign and Herbie Hancock.
The latest single, written by Collier just this May, is 'It Don't Matter', which features a collaboration with JoJo. 'It Don't Matter' delivers one of Collier's funkiest creations to date, laying his and JoJo's satin vocals over sputtering grooves of bass and body percussion.
Jacob Collier is largely self-taught, and the viral YouTube covers he began posting in 2012 from his London bedroom caught the attention of
Quincy Jones and made him a star. Now recognised as one of the world's most impressive, unique and prodigious musicians, Collier has won two GRAMMY awards, a Jazz FM Award for his entirely self-recorded 2016 album 'In My Room', and the PRS For
Music Gold Award at this year's Jazz FM Awards.
Tracklisting:
Intro
Sky Above
Bakumbe (feat. Sam Amidon)
Make Me Cry
Moon River
Feel (feat. Lianne La Havas)
À Noite (interlude)
Lua (feat. MARO)
I Heard You Singing (feat. Becca
Stevens & Chris Thile)
It Don't Matter (feat. JoJo)
Here Comes The Sun (feat. dodie)
Dun Dun Ba Ba (interlude)
Nebaluyo (feat. Oumou Sangaré)
Do You Feel Love (feat. Steve Vai)
Outro
Time To Rest Your Weary Head
