There's a fairly recent BBC documentary "Jacob Collier - In the Room Where It Happens" that does a great job introducing Jacob and his career so far. You can find it on TH-cam. The man is OFF THE CHARTS talented in ALL ASPECTS of music. HIs take on "Moon River", being an acapella arrangement, doesn't even showcase his immense abilities on keyboards, guitar, bass or percussion.
17:18 This was one of his most ambitious things to date, only rivaled by some collaborations he had done involving an orchestra, like All Night Long, but there are already some pretty ambitious videos among his earliest ones. "Started big and got bigger" is about right.
Great reaction ! You should react to his version of Hallelujah or Fix you to see what he does with just his voice and a piano, really beautiful and unique
8.5 ???? Are you both insane !! He's on his way to changing the whole of music in the 21st Century.. He's channeling Mozart, plus a few extra terrestrial artists
@YesItsMeGuys68 OK, your right, we will make it an 8 😂 Just kidding, he is a very talented chap and you can score whatever you like, it's all just for fun. Cheers and thanks for checking out the channel. BPR
You seriously need to update. Found that guy some years ago on TH-cam. He is by far the most talented musician actually alive. I would compare him to Mozart, (too many notes), to Bach (really complex arrangements), to Debussy (colours) and the Beatles (innovation in recording and editing). Besides he seems to be a pretty decent person, kind, humble, clever, pretty anything a person could wish to become. Right. I love that man. Not the way I live my wife, but when it comes to music I eventually found someone, who’s songs I cannot just play along on guitar, piano or drums without carefully analysing what the heck he did to get that effect. And we are not speaking about the incredible musicians, who love to work with him…
As for how long it takes, you'd understand if you saw how fast he can get work done. He did a livestream of his "IHarmU" series once where he arranges/records an elaborate and creative harmonization in under 45 minutes each, while talking to the audience even. I'm sure he spends more time on big projects, his latest song "Little Blue" took years, but he's capable of creating music at insane speeds.
I did some more research and I think 4 of his 5 Grammy wins are for arrangements of other ppl's songs, his 5th Grammy was for a song he wrote. @@susanpeterson9947
Ya. This was like hearing a 10 year old critique The Godfather. Or a kid amazed that Michael Jordan can dunk ignoring all other aspects of the game . There are levels to JC that completely went over their heads. What JC is doing is seriously crazy. Reinventing the rules of music in such a beautiful way.
@@dannywarnock8822 :) Collier playing something at 'Half sharp' was maybe a new thing but hes hardly reinventing the rules of music. He is like frank zappa a personality that seelks to wow ppl with gimmicks and complexity even if the resultant music is often average or annoying. PLaying 8 instruments and , having lots of vocal layers does not make him a good songwriter. When you strip away the custom crocs, the goofy clothes, the therory discussions and the cover songs, you are left with a high energy guy that can play piano well, can sing in tune and has mostly bad original songs. That song where hes in a colored box and playing electric guirta is very poor
@@CourtWatchAuyeah, 5 Grammys and an extraordinary amount of incredible and legendary musicians with amazing credentials (and many with multiple Grammys of their own) singing his praises would disagree with this opinion… cool his music is not for you, but this opinion is nonsense.
Guys, I've listened to this more times than I can figure and parts of it bring a tear to my eyes everytime. Jacob did all the recording and production in his home studio (basically his childhood bedroom). He had to listen to the entire song 93 times just to get all the costume changes for the video. Taste is so subjective but for me you can't rate the beauty and musicality of this rendition high enough. Just saying. Thanks for the reaction. Oh he did get a Grammy for it too.
First off who even thinks up an arrangement like this? Huge creativity factor alone. That was very different than anything I had ever heard before. I can't even begin to imagine how long would have taken to compose much less put it all together. BP1, I agree about the young man's wardrobe being akin to something BP2 might come up with for a Sunday live stream! 😂😁
He is full of joy for music. He loves harmony and chords. His music often illustrates there are vast ranges of harmony and chord structures which haven't been explored yet. In his "All Night Long" arrangement, he has cards with chords written out, and he makes videos explaining the entire production. He is a jazz musician, so not to everyones tastes. Best Wishes. ☮ _Jacob Collier's __#IHarmU__ Vol. _ are many snippets of a Patreon making music, then he harmonises. Delightful. I'm fond of Soléy May th-cam.com/video/nzHF225ibak/w-d-xo.html _Jacob Collier's __#IHarmU__ Vol. 4_ th-cam.com/video/IN1QQI-npbc/w-d-xo.html Doddie and Andrew Russell are fun then glorious.
And to think, part of this arrangement was sung in G half sharp major and unless you have perfect pitch you'd never know it was pitched that way. I'd love to see what someone with perfect pitch would say to this?
14:40 here he moves up I think just a single semi-tone, continuously, across the course of like 30 seconds. I can't even begin to understand how you do that.
Amazing, complex production. Very enjoyable to watch. I admire his technical skills and pitch perfect voice, but honestly, it's not one I would put on my play list.
I think he's more interested in the harmonies is the use of the semitones and microtones. It's the sound that drives him, not as much the actually song. He's fabulous live as well
I am sorry, I just have to ask. New person!? Which planet are you from? Now that I heard all you had to say, just do yourself a favor and go do an extensive research on Jacop... All the various facets of his genius.... A humble advice from a musician pal... PS. Not that it matters, but I suppose you must have figured out how many Grammys he won by now...
"would he be completely sick of the song"... Bro, what are you talking about??? Did you even LISTEN? This is not some pop or rock music level where SONG matters, this is a MUSIC, not a SONG. He plays with the harmonies, how the tones are related to each other and it doesn't even matter what the actual SONG is.
I don't know these guys but their opinions smells like "producers taste" who don't know much about music itself. This arrangement is the most complex and beautiful vocal work in decades!
Jacob's music is not for everyone, I think they stated it themselves, it was sensory overload for them. I'd have scored it 10 as well, but you can't expect everyone to like it.
i get that this comment might be a meme, but thinking music is in anyway objective would be criminal. I find his new a little more restrained arrangement of Bridge Over Troubled Water pretty much perfect, but this one, Moon River, doesn't flow the best, despite all the effort, that's not what makes a great song, i'd say like a 7,5-8/10 for me
I must admit, I find it a little bit sad that almost a decade into Jacob Collier's career, two British commentators of mature years should be unaware of him, and on first exposure to his genius, have such a toe-curling critical reaction. If anyone deserves to be thought of as a "national treasure" then JC is as credible a candidate for the title as we are ever likely to find. I suppose it is a risk of the format, that an _"authentic"_ reaction tells us more about the reactor than the artist.
@Ozymandi_as Why should you find it sad that we do not know of him? We all have different tastes and we are not all on tiktok or the latest trending platforms. Would you happen to know all the artists we do?? I doubt it, we gave an honest reaction to a very talented young man. Why not comment on that part. Cheers
I wish his covers would stop. He takes all the tune and emotion out of everything he touches .And for someone with perfect pitch you would think he should know his voice is bad karaoke.
I agree i dont like the over the top arrangment, The song (composition) is beautiful it just needs to be sung with hear, but instead 20 voices adn overly comlex arrangemnt makes it worse. Its a gimmick which is what Jacob focuses on to promote himself since his eoriginal songs arent very good
@@CourtWatchAu Of course, I have no quibble with you disliking his music. However, he has won a Grammy for one of his original songs, and had a couple nominated. So someone thinks they are better than "arent very good". AFAIK, his 2022 world tour, of 70 concerts sold very well. They were mostly his songs. Best Wishes. ☮
@@gbulmer I looked into his Grammys and at least two were for arrangements, one was Flintstones osng adn another Moon river or Steview Wonder osng i forget. His originals are ok in my dreams or something ive watched a few but not grammy worthy. I think his hype and association (management contract ) with Quincy Jones makes ppl who vote for Grammys feel more inclined to vote for him He seems like a cross between a Christian Hillsong music concert and a 'look how clever i am i can play 7 instruments' but Prince could play many instrumenst too so cuold Stevie Wonder but their concerts ALSO had great original songs, I feel Collier is too gimmick oriented form his harmonys to his palying multiple inst in stage to his goofy facials and clothes and its all a hype/act to cover up for a lack of strong orig songs
@@CourtWatchAu Thank you for replying. He has 5 Grammys, 1 is an original song. He's the first and only British artist to win a Grammy for something on his first 4 albums. As I said, I have no quibble with you not liking his music. He is obsessed with harmony and chords. He's definitely not to everyones taste. It would be extremely worrying if everyone liked the same music. Some talented musicians deeply respect and approve of his groundbreaking music. Almost 150 of them contributed to this song. So I think there is good evidence he's more than a gimmick. I think I 'get' what you say about Quincy Jones. However, he manages other talented musicians who have no Grammy nominations. I think Collier set an expectation with his early one-man shows, and now his audiences expect that 'shtick'. Commenters who've seen him live claim he 'radiates energy'. Maybe that 'one-man band' vibe helps? Anyway, thank you for replying. Which musician (starting post 2010) would you recommend as more musical and much less gimmicky, other than obvious choices like Ren? If there's a particular song, I'll give it a try. Best Wishes. ☮
@@gbulmer Thank YOU too GB, for your thoughtful and detailed replies. you make good points, re current or newer artists Im not as familiar with so i cant think of one that i can reccomend, if i do in a day or two Ill make another comment but I really like Bozzio Levin Stevens 2 albums from about 20yrs ago, Steve Stevens plays spanish acoustic style and electric guitar and its a fusion /spanish acoustic album. Ie Liek Muse theri album Absolution(maybe 20yrs old now) and also Like Sigur Ros - Takk from about 2007 i think, have you heard any of them ? and do you have any suggestions for current artists ? Thankyou
Guys, it took him a week to write and record the arrangement. It’s really not “work” for him, he’s a bloody genius.
imagine what would come out of a month's effort, or even a year.
Musical Prodigy would be the word. He is what beethoven or mozart was for piano
But for voices.
Its insane really that he does this all in his head
He got a grammy for every album he produced...(four so far)
Jacob's vocal range is astounding. Please watch more of what he's done. Truly amazing musician and performer. Just wow
Astonishing and sheer brilliance
The guy is not from this world beyond genius.
What a bloody talented human being...
"god how much time has this guy put into this?!"
.... a week, just a single fucking week. He's just on a whole other level.
He is a prodigy thats undeniable
There's a fairly recent BBC documentary "Jacob Collier - In the Room Where It Happens" that does a great job introducing Jacob and his career so far. You can find it on TH-cam. The man is OFF THE CHARTS talented in ALL ASPECTS of music. HIs take on "Moon River", being an acapella arrangement, doesn't even showcase his immense abilities on keyboards, guitar, bass or percussion.
With this arrangement he won his first Grammy (now 5) beating e.g. John Williams
He did over 8000 tracks for that tune. No charts, no auto-tune
And not even using a piano, IIRC
It's not that it was a lot of work -- it would literally be impossible for anyone else to do! He's a wizard.
You know its special when experts can hardly explain what
they are hearing!😄
He does hours long videos where he'll go over all the tracks that go into his arrangements
17:18 This was one of his most ambitious things to date, only rivaled by some collaborations he had done involving an orchestra, like All Night Long, but there are already some pretty ambitious videos among his earliest ones. "Started big and got bigger" is about right.
Great reaction ! You should react to his version of Hallelujah or Fix you to see what he does with just his voice and a piano, really beautiful and unique
8.5 ???? Are you both insane !! He's on his way to changing the whole of music in the 21st Century.. He's channeling Mozart, plus a few extra terrestrial artists
@YesItsMeGuys68
OK, your right, we will make it an 8 😂
Just kidding, he is a very talented chap and you can score whatever you like, it's all just for fun.
Cheers and thanks for checking out the channel.
BPR
You seriously need to update. Found that guy some years ago on TH-cam. He is by far the most talented musician actually alive. I would compare him to Mozart, (too many notes), to Bach (really complex arrangements), to Debussy (colours) and the Beatles (innovation in recording and editing). Besides he seems to be a pretty decent person, kind, humble, clever, pretty anything a person could wish to become. Right. I love that man. Not the way I live my wife, but when it comes to music I eventually found someone, who’s songs I cannot just play along on guitar, piano or drums without carefully analysing what the heck he did to get that effect. And we are not speaking about the incredible musicians, who love to work with him…
It takes ProTools and a once in a lifetime muscial genius. Just that. 😉🎶🖖
"There's a lot going on here." Such an understatement :)
As for how long it takes, you'd understand if you saw how fast he can get work done. He did a livestream of his "IHarmU" series once where he arranges/records an elaborate and creative harmonization in under 45 minutes each, while talking to the audience even. I'm sure he spends more time on big projects, his latest song "Little Blue" took years, but he's capable of creating music at insane speeds.
HeHarmMe?? 😢
Are you two worthy judging the Grammy award winning version of Moon River by the 5 times Grammy Winner Jacob Collier,? I don't think so.
I completely agree.
I did some more research and I think 4 of his 5 Grammy wins are for arrangements of other ppl's songs, his 5th Grammy was for a song he wrote. @@susanpeterson9947
Ya. This was like hearing a 10 year old critique The Godfather. Or a kid amazed that Michael Jordan can dunk ignoring all other aspects of the game . There are levels to JC that completely went over their heads. What JC is doing is seriously crazy. Reinventing the rules of music in such a beautiful way.
@@dannywarnock8822 :) Collier playing something at 'Half sharp' was maybe a new thing but hes hardly reinventing the rules of music. He is like frank zappa a personality that seelks to wow ppl with gimmicks and complexity even if the resultant music is often average or annoying. PLaying 8 instruments and , having lots of vocal layers does not make him a good songwriter. When you strip away the custom crocs, the goofy clothes, the therory discussions and the cover songs, you are left with a high energy guy that can play piano well, can sing in tune and has mostly bad original songs. That song where hes in a colored box and playing electric guirta is very poor
@@CourtWatchAuyeah, 5 Grammys and an extraordinary amount of incredible and legendary musicians with amazing credentials (and many with multiple Grammys of their own) singing his praises would disagree with this opinion… cool his music is not for you, but this opinion is nonsense.
Guys, I've listened to this more times than I can figure and parts of it bring a tear to my eyes everytime. Jacob did all the recording and production in his home studio (basically his childhood bedroom). He had to listen to the entire song 93 times just to get all the costume changes for the video. Taste is so subjective but for me you can't rate the beauty and musicality of this rendition high enough. Just saying. Thanks for the reaction. Oh he did get a Grammy for it too.
First off who even thinks up an arrangement like this?
Huge creativity factor alone.
That was very different than anything I had ever heard before.
I can't even begin to imagine how long would have taken to compose much less put it all together.
BP1, I agree about the young man's wardrobe being akin to something BP2 might come up with for a Sunday live stream! 😂😁
He is full of joy for music. He loves harmony and chords. His music often illustrates there are vast ranges of harmony and chord structures which haven't been explored yet. In his "All Night Long" arrangement, he has cards with chords written out, and he makes videos explaining the entire production. He is a jazz musician, so not to everyones tastes.
Best Wishes. ☮
_Jacob Collier's __#IHarmU__ Vol. _ are many snippets of a Patreon making music, then he harmonises. Delightful. I'm fond of Soléy May th-cam.com/video/nzHF225ibak/w-d-xo.html
_Jacob Collier's __#IHarmU__ Vol. 4_ th-cam.com/video/IN1QQI-npbc/w-d-xo.html Doddie and Andrew Russell are fun then glorious.
And to think, part of this arrangement was sung in G half sharp major and unless you have perfect pitch you'd never know it was pitched that way. I'd love to see what someone with perfect pitch would say to this?
14:40 here he moves up I think just a single semi-tone, continuously, across the course of like 30 seconds. I can't even begin to understand how you do that.
Amazing, complex production. Very enjoyable to watch. I admire his technical skills and pitch perfect voice, but honestly, it's not one I would put on my play list.
I think he's more interested in the harmonies is the use of the semitones and microtones. It's the sound that drives him, not as much the actually song. He's fabulous live as well
I am sorry, I just have to ask. New person!? Which planet are you from? Now that I heard all you had to say, just do yourself a favor and go do an extensive research on Jacop... All the various facets of his genius.... A humble advice from a musician pal...
PS. Not that it matters, but I suppose you must have figured out how many Grammys he won by now...
And A does not always = 440HZ as a reference.
"would he be completely sick of the song"... Bro, what are you talking about??? Did you even LISTEN? This is not some pop or rock music level where SONG matters, this is a MUSIC, not a SONG. He plays with the harmonies, how the tones are related to each other and it doesn't even matter what the actual SONG is.
I don't know these guys but their opinions smells like "producers taste" who don't know much about music itself. This arrangement is the most complex and beautiful vocal work in decades!
Rating Jacob's version of Moon River anything less than 10/10 is criminal and requires an immense amount of hubris.
Jacob's music is not for everyone, I think they stated it themselves, it was sensory overload for them. I'd have scored it 10 as well, but you can't expect everyone to like it.
i get that this comment might be a meme, but thinking music is in anyway objective would be criminal. I find his new a little more restrained arrangement of Bridge Over Troubled Water pretty much perfect, but this one, Moon River, doesn't flow the best, despite all the effort, that's not what makes a great song, i'd say like a 7,5-8/10 for me
I must admit, I find it a little bit sad that almost a decade into Jacob Collier's career, two British commentators of mature years should be unaware of him, and on first exposure to his genius, have such a toe-curling critical reaction. If anyone deserves to be thought of as a "national treasure" then JC is as credible a candidate for the title as we are ever likely to find. I suppose it is a risk of the format, that an _"authentic"_ reaction tells us more about the reactor than the artist.
@Ozymandi_as
Why should you find it sad that we do not know of him?
We all have different tastes and we are not all on tiktok or the latest trending platforms.
Would you happen to know all the artists we do??
I doubt it, we gave an honest reaction to a very talented young man.
Why not comment on that part.
Cheers
Jacob’s video should be more dominant! Late to the Jacob party.
You might be producers, but definitely NOT musicians
I wish his covers would stop. He takes all the tune and emotion out of everything he touches .And for someone with perfect pitch you would think he should know his voice is bad karaoke.
I must be having a bad day cause YUCK.
I agree i dont like the over the top arrangment, The song (composition) is beautiful it just needs to be sung with hear, but instead 20 voices adn overly comlex arrangemnt makes it worse. Its a gimmick which is what Jacob focuses on to promote himself since his eoriginal songs arent very good
@@CourtWatchAu Of course, I have no quibble with you disliking his music. However, he has won a Grammy for one of his original songs, and had a couple nominated. So someone thinks they are better than "arent very good". AFAIK, his 2022 world tour, of 70 concerts sold very well. They were mostly his songs.
Best Wishes. ☮
@@gbulmer I looked into his Grammys and at least two were for arrangements, one was Flintstones osng adn another Moon river or Steview Wonder osng i forget. His originals are ok in my dreams or something ive watched a few but not grammy worthy. I think his hype and association (management contract ) with Quincy Jones makes ppl who vote for Grammys feel more inclined to vote for him He seems like a cross between a Christian Hillsong music concert and a 'look how clever i am i can play 7 instruments' but Prince could play many instrumenst too so cuold Stevie Wonder but their concerts ALSO had great original songs, I feel Collier is too gimmick oriented form his harmonys to his palying multiple inst in stage to his goofy facials and clothes and its all a hype/act to cover up for a lack of strong orig songs
@@CourtWatchAu Thank you for replying. He has 5 Grammys, 1 is an original song. He's the first and only British artist to win a Grammy for something on his first 4 albums. As I said, I have no quibble with you not liking his music.
He is obsessed with harmony and chords.
He's definitely not to everyones taste. It would be extremely worrying if everyone liked the same music.
Some talented musicians deeply respect and approve of his groundbreaking music. Almost 150 of them contributed to this song. So I think there is good evidence he's more than a gimmick.
I think I 'get' what you say about Quincy Jones. However, he manages other talented musicians who have no Grammy nominations.
I think Collier set an expectation with his early one-man shows, and now his audiences expect that 'shtick'. Commenters who've seen him live claim he 'radiates energy'. Maybe that 'one-man band' vibe helps?
Anyway, thank you for replying.
Which musician (starting post 2010) would you recommend as more musical and much less gimmicky, other than obvious choices like Ren? If there's a particular song, I'll give it a try.
Best Wishes. ☮
@@gbulmer Thank YOU too GB, for your thoughtful and detailed replies. you make good points, re current or newer artists Im not as familiar with so i cant think of one that i can reccomend, if i do in a day or two Ill make another comment but I really like Bozzio Levin Stevens 2 albums from about 20yrs ago, Steve Stevens plays spanish acoustic style and electric guitar and its a fusion /spanish acoustic album. Ie Liek Muse theri album Absolution(maybe 20yrs old now) and also Like Sigur Ros - Takk from about 2007 i think, have you heard any of them ? and do you have any suggestions for current artists ? Thankyou
wait till you hear him do "Bohemian Rhapsody" live improvised.insane