Jacob Collier - Hyperballad (Björk cover) | Mahogany Session
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- We spent a day in September with Jacob at the Heritage & Arts Centre in East London to celebrate the upcoming release of Djesse Vol. 4. At the end of an incredible day, we had time for a single take before we wrapped - and Jacob delivered this completely improvised rendition of the Björk classic, Hyperballad.
We managed to capture three incredible moments; Little Blue (where Jacob was joined by an audience choir of fans), Summer Rain featuring Madison Cunningham and Chris Thile, and this stunning Björk cover.
Dive upon the other two from the day here:
📺 Jacob Collier - Summer Rain (Feat. Madison Cunningham & Chris Thile) | Mahogany Session
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📺 Jacob Collier - Little Blue | Mahogany Session
• Jacob Collier - Little...
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I mean yeah if you’re into the whole “most beautiful music you’ve ever heard” thing…
I'm guilty
Count me in.
Grandmas kettle can sing!
@@SFDarkAngel Why is Weaver in here? Musta timelapsed
Jacob is on another level
I need an entire Mahogany Sessions album of Jacob Collier!
A full 5.1 surround sound "concert" video sounds good to me.
Every session has been magic since "Make Me Cry" four yrs ago.
yes, please!
@@dculp9284 Yesss!!!!!
@@dculp9284 Ocean Wide, Canyon Deep with MARO; I haven't been able to listen to that for awhile now because its tears instantly. Oh how I love it, though!
As someone who adores Bjork and has listened to this song hundreds of times over the years, this performance really makes me feel the weight of her words and how beautiful they are
But, like, the original song didn't make you feel it? Nor the string quartet reinterpretation?
Felt the same thing, I love Bjork and this brings a complete different appreciation of the song, Jacob’s modulation is just completely different. What I love the most about Jacob is his ability to play such a unique song so beautifully and still make it sound like his without destroying it.
@@JohnDoe-ns8ho Not an absence of feeling it at all-just a new appreciation. When you live with a song you love for years and grow up with it, you sometimes carry that old lens of looking at the song with you. Hearing a new version, especially as tasteful as this one, brings out a different or new way of seeing or feeling those lyrics.
@@JohnDoe-ns8ho I think the way they present the chaos is very different. Bjork is well aware she is recording in a pop music genre, even collaborated with Nellee Hooper, maybe the most popular dance/pop producers of the late 80s and 90s. Jacob's goes more astray, more emphasis on the lyrics singing in different directions and introduces some piano to accompany it. There is a kind of misunderstanding of the chaotic in art, is the artist just presenting the chaotic or organizing and arranging it for the audience. I could go deep into Jung, but avoid that, its kind of remarkable the similarities but also the differences to achieve the same goal.
@matchboxmatt
Without words, it’s not bad either…
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Currently sat in the Australian outback surrounded by wildlife, the moon and the sun are rising over the mountains. I’m right next to a gentle fire with a coffee in my hand with my wife and child and my parents behind me asleep in their tent.
To top it off this song is playing in my ears.
I’m feeling a lot of things right now 😊
Thanks again Collier
Lucky you.
beautiful
Thanks for that image
Hey Billy, I wish I could be there with you! It sounds really nice. Enjoy it, and take care :)
Peak human experience 😂❤
omg Björk cover by the Jacob Collier himself
I would pay for that performance.
I’ve obviously respected everything Jacob has ever done, but this is the first time I’ve actually been moved and transported by him. This is special. Extraordinary. Truly transcendent.
HARD SAME
It's not the first time I am deeply moved by him, but what he does at Mahogany Sessions is truly something else and goes so much deeper than anything I've heard before.
Same
❤❤❤
Yes. Well done. Bjork has a part in that too. 😊
Phenomenal songwriting. I know Björk intended something different - but I’ve always interpreted the song to be about the kind of therapy we do on our own to be healthy in relationships. Quite literally, I wake early every morning, go for a walk to pray, and self-reflect. Lots of personal challenge and development happens. Then, I’m ready for the day and to offer the best of myself to my family and friends.
@Jacob & @Bjork : please please consider working together on a project. There are sound worlds you 2 can access together, that the world hasn't heard as of yet.
PLEASE
Yes.... Please💕🌊
You can listen to Bjork with Robert Wyatt :)
With Hans Zimmer!
@@simonwild428wow... Zimmer should practice a lot in this case...
Let’s start a kickstarter to buy this building for Jacob so he can do another “In My Room” album where the room is this one. I would however also be thrilled with an album of piano and voice covers of songs Jacob loves, or an album of Bjork covers.
These mahogany sessions are magical. If he did all three of these takes in one day (same clothing) it’s an incredible achievement.
seconded! I also wish @mahogany would just release the performances he's previously done (like Make Me Cry) on streaming services. it's right there already, release the beauty!
I believe there are two more forthcoming....he shot five songs that day.
Jacob already has an album of piano and voice covers called ‘Piano Ballads’.
@@paulravenaudio I missed this cause I always miss compilations and it’s not grouped as a regular album in Apple Music. I’m gonna listen tonight. Thanks for letting me know.
3 songs in a day isnt that difficult if you consider how many songs artists do in a concert.
The audio engineer of this is a wizard, so is Jacob of course. I wonder how they captured this so beautifully?
So we had dpa radio mics hidden on Jacob, and you can see the Steinway is mic’d up throughout plus a couple of ambient mics to get the room ❤️❤️❤️
@@MahoganySessions beautifully done! Im in awe of the sound. I take it at least one mic is in his hat 😊
Very crisp
Really caught the richness of his vocal timbre
@@MahoganySessions incredible work 👏👏
The worst parts of me want to be jealous of Jacob and his immense wealth of talent. I would give up everything I had to have that. I just can't be jealous, though. When I hear music like this - when I feel a performance like this - yes, of course, I wish that could be me, but the jealousy washes away. I am overcome with the sheer beauty. I swim in its depths. For a moment, I am truly free. That is the true gift here. This allows me to be the best version of me and what is just so wonderful about that is that this song is just so incredibly human. It makes me so glad to be alive.
Would you give up the time he spent practicing instead of playing with his friends though?
@@JohnTravena 100%.
same feeling! You described it so well
You meant envious, not jealous.
@@JohnTravenado you know him personally? Considering how he interacts with artists in collabs on all of his albums, the guy isn’t exactly short of friends.
There used to be a bootleg video of him covering this song at a concert that has since disappeared. I'm grateful that we have an officially sanctioned record of his take on the song now. The other performance had an eerie use of bitonality at "will my eyes be closed or open" that I will always miss though, now that it's gone. There's something melancholy about the ephemeral nature of improvisation.
Don't you think it's at least a little disingenuous that the video's description calls this "completely improvised" then? I don't have an issue with anything you said, but that word gets thrown around with Collier's stuff so often that it's almost completely lost its meaning in relation to his work.
@@JoshAntes99 What, because this isn't the first time he had covered the song? If anything, maybe the "completely" part doesn't make sense by virtue of the fact that it's a cover in the first place, but I think calling it "improvised" falls within typical usage of that word. It's uncontroversial to describe the process of spontaneously layering new ideas on top of an established structure that happens in jazz as improvisation, and what's happening here is something like that.
For what it's worth, this rendition and the other one I'm thinking of have some broad strokes in common, but probably not much overlap in the details. Different chord voicings and substitutions, different textural figurations, different ornaments to or wholesale departures from the original song's melody, etc.
@@sashakindel3600 i love this sentence of yours: "It's uncontroversial to describe the process of spontaneously layering new ideas on top of an established structure that happens in jazz as improvisation, and what's happening here is something like that."
@@sashakindel3600 very good description of this type of improvisation, there really is a special magic in these semi-spontaneous forms of composition
Did we need more reasons to love that guy? What a gift... immensely touching rendition!
Simply astonishing… it’s been a sh*t day, took my 90 year old mother and her canine friend of the last 16 years Lily to the vet this evening. Sadly it was for Lily to be put to sleep, she was deaf and blind and incontinent and we couldn’t let her suffer anymore , the vet gave her lots of treats and I held her in my arms as she gently passed… my mum is very old school and doesn’t really show her emotions, so I drove her home, walked her to her door and handed her Lily’s collar and lead and left. I am now sat in the dark in my garden listening to this for the 5th time in a row bawling my eyes out, I’m so heartbroken,..another friend is gone another loyal unquestioning companion has exited our lives… and I know my mum is lying in her bed just as heartbroken, crying where no one else can see… Goodbye Lilydog, we love you and miss you terribly
I hope this music brought you some solace. I connected with it through loss and grief as well.
@@kirsten7152❤
A song to heal your heart from sixteen years of unconditional love. Also a book I recommend for any type of grieving. Tear Soup.
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I’m so sorry for your loss. May this music provide comfort and solace in your moments of need.
Some people make music. Some people are made of music. and then, some of them, are music. This is Jacob. You can clearly see this.
My favorite Jacob is this one: raw and vulnerable. So simple, genuine and beautiful.
It’s one of our faves ⚡⚡
Absolutely....simple and complex and utterly gorgeous
The dynamic subtlety, the gentleness, the richness and vulnurablity, and the heart of this performance is so raw and moving.
\ there is simply not much out there quite like this it is truly a gift to all of us
This is Impressionism with the dial turned up to eleven. I’m awestruck.
We live in a city
Right in the center
There's no real view
From the top of the building
Every morning I open youtube
And listen to this song
Like a medicine or meditation
Or whatever you'd use to help yourself
It's become a habit
A way to start the day
Every now and then, an angel falls from heaven and decides to spend a little time with us
Master Jacob it is
Everyday is a good day when u see Jacob Collier released a new Mahogany Session
My day made. His improvised piano and vocal covers are some of the most human, raw, and sonderous creations of music I have ever found.
Why do you say it's improvised?
@@eviltomthai Because it says it in the desription.
@@thaddeusray001 dude has more talent in his pinky toe than all of humanity has in their bodies
It's quite literally the opposite of sonder. In fact, you kinda just made me able to articulate that thought. It is the opposite of sonder, and he simply does not understand not only what people love about these songs he covers but also the emotions conveyed in these songs. It was apparent with Danny Boy and HIde And Seek but it's just totally laid bare here. There are humans out there, who wrote the words and melodies for those words,
"But come ye back when summer's in the meadow,
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow,
It's I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow,
Oh, Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so"
and,
"Blood and tears
They were here first
Mm, what'd you say?
Mm, that you only meant well
Well of course you did...
...
...Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cutouts
Speak no feeling, no, I don't believe you
You don't care a bit, you don't care a bit"
and the best one yet,
"I Imagine what my body would sound like
slamming against those rocks
And when it lands
Will my eyes be closed or open?"
Actual humans with complex inner lives and unbearable emotions that could only find an outlet in song, wrote those lyrics and melodies for those lyrics and Collier simply doesn't understand any of it on any level.
@@JohnDoe-ns8ho how do you have any idea how much of the stories behind the songs he understands?
And again, Jacob marries the harmonic complexity of jazz and classical music with the emotional accessibility of pop music. I'm eternally grateful to him for this contribution to contemporary music production.
Only Jacob can bring you to tears, revealing your own vulnerability to you, then slowly sooth you back to reality. I'm stunned.
So am I....stunned.
Yes, exactly how I feel.
That’s how I felt first time I heard world o world!:)
Singing at extra slow speed doesn't make it vulnerable
Get a grip!
1:42 is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard, I make this comment so I can go back to it on a loop
I wanted to leave a comment, but this just left me speechless...
Im not crying... you're crying.
Fr, this is one of my favorite songs and this dude did it so much justice.
Absolutely beautiful.
I refuse to believe any of you people who say Hyperballad is one of your favorite songs as if it and this cover are not polar opposites. This is like somebody gave Collier a challenge to strip out all the emotion and angst from these songs he's covering.
@@JohnDoe-ns8ho Gatekeeping. Classy.
You wanna tell me I have to like Lima beans now?
Of course they're different. It's a cover with that Collier flavor, and it's beautiful in its own right. Gtfoh.
@@jpizzleforizzle You know, for a second I legitimately forgot this was YouToob and I legitimately forgot that I was gonna get the dumbest possible reply.
Nevertheless. Nobody implied anything about gatekeeping and what you're allowed to like and dislike, songs or beans or whatever. I was simply saying it doesn't make sense, and if Hyperballad actually is one of your favorite songs you should probably know why it doesn't make sense. And I was simply hoping somebody would help it make sense. It's like this: people like pizza. People like ice cream. People like both. But nobody has ever said "man I love pizza and this cookie dough ice cream does it so much justice" because that would sound crazy. Even though cookie dough ice cream is great.
And I gotta say, I didn't expect such a hostile and dare I say, uncollieresque reaction.
@@JohnDoe-ns8ho music is subjective. You don't have to like Collier's take on the song, but you also don't have a right, per se, to tell someone else they should or shouldn't enjoy it. I mean, you're essentially making a "no true scottsman" argument here.
So, fwiw, I think you're the one handing out dumb comments today.
I see little feeling similarity between the original and this cover. This is rather a "comfortable" version.
I saw the Title ...
I thought "Can he really??"....
I pressed play..
And my heart exploded✨️
💕🌊💕🌊💕🌊💕
Thank you Jacob. Love you💞
After not listening to hyperballad for at least 10 years, it was so wonderful to connect with it again, as I found myself singing gently along with Jacob for the first two verses and chorus. A genius doing a another genius's genius. Beautiful ❤️🙏
I like how he did that descending riff when the song talks about items falling down the cliff. Super cool.
So cool you caught that ! 🎹
Jacob Collier performing Björk's Hyperballad...🥹💎💓 Best session ever
So glad you love it!!
We live on a mountain
Right at the top
There's a beautiful view
From the top of the mountain
Every morning I walk towards the edge
And throw little things off
Like car-parts, bottles and cutlery
Or whatever I find lying around
It's become a habit
A way to start the day
I go through all this
Before you wake up
So I can feel happier
To be safe up here with you
I go through all this
Before you wake up
So I can feel happier
To be safe up here with you
It's real early morning
No-one is awake
I'm back at my cliff
Still throwing things off
I listen to the sounds they make
On their way down
I follow with my eyes 'til they crash
Imagine what my body would sound like
Slamming against those rocks
When it lands
Will my eyes
Be closed or open?
I go through all this
Before you wake up
So I can feel happier
To be safe up here with you
I go through all this
Before you wake up
So I can feel happier
To be safe up here with you
I go through all this
Before you wake up
So I can feel happier
To be safe up here with you
Safe up (here with you)
theres something so intuitive about his approach to harmony. it's such a breath of fresh air
Same shirt as his last two. I cant imagine creating this much incredible music at all, let alone in a single day!
… and being so unpretentious not to change outfits in between like most artists most likely would have done.
@@christianohlig9597 yall give credit for anything
Imagine being able to play so wonderful in such an incredible itchy sweater.
A visitation from extraterrestrial intelligence is what we have in Jacob Collier. Thank you, Universe.
Or his Soul
Listening to this makes me feel... deeply human...
When I am feeling down, I can put on literally any Jacob Collier video and just feel so uplifted. Thank you Jacob for brightening my life and the world!
It's amazing how he could give a relatively happy ending to the story of the person the lyrics talk about. In this interpretation, maybe they manage to escape that toxic relationship and have a better life, who knows.
This song has been my safe place since its release. I remember I was in HS and the album came in and I snagged two vinyls because I wanted to make sure the shop had its own copy to play. God, thank you for exploring music the way you do. My son pulls apart small machines and electronics and puts them back together in new and delightful ways with a lot of surprise new parts and your music reminds me of that covers remind me of that “pull and stretch and stuff new things and make it new” ❤
We need this on spotify rn!!! I beg you
honestly though I'm checking everyday for them to release it..
Could I wish for anything else? A combination between JC and Björk… I’m stunned.
Probably the two greatest geniuses of current popular music
Mind blown ❤
🥹
My favorite Bjork song, and what a breath taking cover this is
OMG> I never, ever thought someone could move me with this song like Bjork. I was wrong. My goodness Jacob collier, your head and heart are rare.
im so glad this found me.
im such a bjork enjoyer, her sounds had help me through dark and darker. she found me when i couldn't find myself. jacob is just telling me not to worry about getting lost again. I will always have this anchor to come back to.
Captured the etherealness and vulnerability of Bjork so well. I love this Jacob 🙏
no words to describe what I’m feeling right now
Try, I want to hear
Happy happy happy to see any uploads from Jacob Collier. What a genuine human being..
Bravo. Björk is hard to cover, but your rendition is beautiful! Hope she gets to see this… no doubt she will love it.
I guess she did. She linked her followers back here on the 4th April.
I hope he plays this in Reykjavik in June. Stoked!
Wow. What an amazing thought. ❤️🙏🏻
Wow, for many years I love Byörk´s music, this cover is beautiful!
This is beautiful. He doesn't just impress us with his gleeful, joyful explosions of musical exploration and creativity, he's also making emotional, gorgeous music that works on a simpler, deeper level as well as sheer astonishment at his talents. Wonderful stuff!
A sublime rendition of an already iconic and spellbinding song by Bjork.. it's like hearing the groundup version of pain .. by a modern day musical genius. I am in tears, truly one of the most moving pieces of music, ever! ❤
We need this masterpiece on Spotify!
Amazing Cover - Transported. I remember this Album - and how ground breaking it was when it came out and her incredible style melted it. Now, I see and feel this again and I see and feel another side of this all over again in another way, not only listening to the experience of Jacob's incredible voice, but also feeling more messages within this piece as it is, as it was written. Peace.
PLEASE release this on spotify, I need it in my life on the daily commute!
Each video more beautiful than the last. Thank you Jacob
I adore this performance. He's so wonderfully musically fluent, it's a joy to come back to it again and again and hear more nuances. His falsetto is beautiful. Thank you for capturing this and sharing it..
Imagine a Björk x JC collab! This would be mind-shattering! This is the closest we'll get to this. Love it! Thank you Mahogany
It occurs to me, watching the view count, that there are strangers out there watching this at the same time as me. The implications of which speak for themselves, I think, if you know the lyrics to this song.
Bjork's strange story isn't so strange at all, is it? It turns out there are a lot of people with brains and hearts just like yours, sharing many of your thoughts and feelings.
Makes me thankful that the internet exists.
I am mesmerized. Deeply mesmerized. Smiled and cried and laughed two times to this beautiful piece of art today. Thank you, Mr. Collier!
Full grown prodigy who keeps pumping out amazingness. Every time I see him, he blows my mind.
Mozart level genius, and such humility
One of my favorite artists covered by one of my favorite artists. WOW!
The music is great. Of course. But the cinematography and audio Engjneering are also amazing! They capture JC’s brilliance. Excellence all the way around. The work creates goosebumps.
Absolutely incredible. I'm stunned.
Björk and Jacob. Visionary magical creatures.
So moving... and whoever did the sound is crazy brilliant too!
3:28 and beyond. Amazing chord progression built into his layered creativity. Beautiful.
This song always engulfs all my brain. Happy to see someone else get it, too.
Björk is one of my all time favorite artists and this version of yours is just so free and tremendously beautiful! What a gift to be alive to enjoy yours and Björks art! 💜
What a brilliant musician, born the same summer 'Post' was released. I wish to send him gratitude for reminding nearly 44-year-old me of almost 15-year-old me, who (in 1995) counted the days to buy this album and could yet feel such hope.
Fantastic artist, fantastic pianist, fantastic singer, fantastic person.......the list is very long if i follow ! thanks Jacob for having been born to fascinate us !!!
Whaaaat? So sublime!
Please I've heard this on loop for one hour i need it in Spotify
So refreshing to hear this wonderful creation.🙏🏼 Thank you Jacob Collier for being here with us!💎🌅🤍🤍🤍
Second time listening to this. Each time it makes me cry bc it touches beauty and everything real. Thank you.
❤ Bjork you must be so moved by this amazing talent and beauty honoring your art
What a beautiful rendition, I Just take off Earth
Just lovely...😌🎶....the acoustics in this building are SO perfect for Jacob's playing & voice👍🤗
While some may long for the eras of classical composers or jazz legends, I'm grateful to be living in a time where we can witness Jacob's musical genius unfold in real-time!
Anyone that can play or sing with such feeling, precision, and energy (even if after months of rehearsing a song) is a great musician. Jacob did both, in a single take + he wrote the arrangement, actually improvised it on the spot!
I can't express with words the feelings that this song has made me feel... What an incredible version of my favourite Bjork's song. Thank so much for this, Jacob.
Seriously, I see a lot of people saying this is their favorite Bjork song but that doesn't imply that you all like Bjork. In one context it could mean "I hate Bjork's music but this is my least hated of her songs." That would actually make a lot of sense.
Restraint is Collier's superpower, self indulgence his kryptonite. Give him a single instrument or a handful of tracks to work with and he's gold, the minute it spills over into elaborate 50 layer harmonies something, ironically, gets lost in the mix. Less is really more with this guy imo.
Honestly I wish he would do even less here. I know people really enjoy his maximalist technicolor rainbow thing but I think he could be so much more amazing if he just held back more. 😂
So true. Compare this to his cover of 'Hide and Seek', you can really see how more self-discipline provides a much more pleasant experience. Although technically extremely impressive the other may be, this cover connects to me presonally way more, which also seems the case to many others too. Though, ultimately completely up to Jacob, obviously. Would hate to box in a person of his creativity too much.
This guy is one of the best musicians of all time. He makes extremely complex inversions seem simple and directly affects, at the same time, the brain, heart, soul, skin, even my thyroid gets goose bumps. Someone needs to check if he's really from this planet.
It is so difficult to add to such already existing beauty. You did it, brilliantly. Thank you 💜
Gosh. I’ve listened to Björk’s original so many times. One of my favorites of hers. But this. Just wow.
RELEASE THIS ON SPOTIFY I BEG YOU
Same
Well this was a journey I wasn't ready for. Wow. Spectacular
Mr. Collier, one of the best musicians of this times
ALL is right with the world again ~ so much love《💓》Xx
There's mastery of voice and instrument and then whatever this is. Hypermastery?
My jaw dropped. Full body chills. Grasping at my hair out of amazement. This is SO incredible and beautiful WOW.
I have not felt this alive in a very long time 💛
Just a master piece...again ☺ Jacob, thank you so much!!!
Still not on Spotify.
Wow that's nothing but a cover arranged by soul... Each melodic phrase brings colours to our feelings ! Just an explosion!🔥
This is just INCREDIBLE!! so thankful for this guy
This fills me with a sense of utter peace and calm. I wish all of life could feel this way!
Was anyone else holding their breath?
Wow. Even Jacob's jumper got goosebumps from this.
Wonderful interpretation of Bjork's classic... Warmest congrats to the sound engineer, the sound is so great, with perfect balance between vocals and piano....