In a category dominated by the likes of Beyonce, Billy Illish and Taylor Swift, Yaqoub Koller is considered the least nominated musician for the General album at Sunday Awards on Sunday 67. However, the English singer, songwriter, producer and multi -player is in fact a familiar competitor for the leading Grammys Award: Emmat The dark horse for “Djesse Vol. 4” former albums for the year “Djsse Vol.”, Which competes against LPS by post Malone, Dua LIPA and ColdPlay in Grammys 63 (Taylor Swift ended with that year with “folklore”.)
It includes manifestations of a wide range of guests – including Brande Carlyle, Michael McDonaldAnoushka Shawn Mendes, Kirk Franklin, and John Mayer – Tarmese Display Vol.100,000 votes“It includes records about many audience members at Coller parties, as it runs the crowd like a giant choir.
In addition to the public album, Koller, 30, has risen to two Grammys at the Sunday: Global Music Performance for “.A rock somewhereAnd “Bridge Over Over Sulpredted Water”, which includes John Legend and Tori Kelly. Collier discussed the album and his relationships with Johnny Mitchell and the late Coency Jones in the last noon in Los Angeles.
I have said that “Djesse Vol. 4” is the last batch in a series of four albums. Do you always know that it will be the final?
I actually did. I finished “in my room”, the first album I made, as a completely unilateral task – registered, mixed, everything myself. So then I was yearning for cooperation. I wanted to make, in some sense, four different rooms, each dictating a different sound environment. The first was like the orchestra record – very large, wide and a kind of explosives. Folder. 2 was more popular, singer and songwriter, with a smaller sound space than the first one. Folder. 3, which was the quarantine album, was not almost an area at all. This was what happened in the dark and strange stars field of your mind when you collide with things together.
And the folder. 4?
For a long time I didn’t know what it would have been. But the folder tour. 3, the thing that fell in love is the audience. What I realized in my charm was that I felt the same for the early days, but the sound that I was interested in more was the voice collectively instead of my country.
Among the candidates for the public album, you seem to have more than others with “New Blue Sun”, André 3000 Jazz LP. But he talked about the value of the beginners’ mind on his journey as a flute player, while I don’t hear much naivety in your music.
I think part of the nature of the fourth album consisting of four individuals is that it will be a little Opses for what I learned in the past ten years of music. It is different from “in my room”, which was about naivety: I did not do this before. What happens when you make an album? Let’s discover. But this is not a naive record. I will not say that it comes out of the blue color.
Have you heard Andre’s album?
Yes. I think the value of this record, in a funny way, is not a musical value. And I imagine that he will be well with that. All songs contain these 10 words, such as the introduction of diaries. It has been updated by the incompatibility of the registry format. It does not make me want to make music, but this makes me want to think differently in my life. I wonder how he will feel the record for 20 years. I am curious about what he learned from him. I am also curious in his favor. He is a well -known and well -known character, but in terms of what Grammys represents, which is always difficult to say, I wonder where he sits in that. I am happy because he is there, because it is not different from any other album in the category. It is “f – you” somewhat. I love him for that.
I saw you playing the piano with Johnny Mitchell in Hollywood Paul last year. How will you become part of Joni Jam?
Brandi Carlyle met in 2021 because she was in the process of Johnny’s magic. Johnny was at home alone – truly, really fragile – and Brande, who is this amazing man, had this vision for Johnny, where people come to Joni’s house and sing Joni’s songs. So I went to Johnny’s house and I was completely blown until I was there. The wall with Dulcimers of the 1970s, and paintings on the entrances – was not only charity as a huge joni fan. I did it and thought, well, it was once. I was imagining that Johnny was a kind of decline. But she moved from strength to strength. So, Brandi called me at the beginning of last year and said: “Look, Joni will sing in Grammys – Will you be present?” We played “Both sides nowIn the show, which then became Joni Jam in Hollywood Bowl.
Some things deteriorated about Joni’s music: no longer played a lot of guitar, and its voice is less than it was. But its formulation is intact, when you know that it is really a jailer and that it is attached to Wayne shorter. Every time you make a song, you will sing a little or a little later or slightly stretched. I think as soon as I realized that I was also one of these people, we had somewhat. It was really amazing to give each other this freedom, because many people in that group were playing very religiously. And if they are not in the band, that will have collapsed. You cannot get Jonis in the band, do you know? It was a pleasure to bring a kind of decoration, to play around – to almost disturb it in the homogeneous square. I will never forget that.
Jacob Coller in Los Angeles.
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The group’s list of the Sultanate’s view was completely crazy.
crazy! The first half was only saying, “Johnny, what do you want to do?” It was like, “I want to play the deepest discounts.” Then the second half was more than the known melodies. She is in a stage of her career where she can easily say, “I will put the bow on this, and you will love it.” But she is still paying.
Your guide Queens Jones He died last year. Do you think anything died with him? Something he did or stood up because we will not see again?
The biggest gift I received from him was to see how he dealt with people. You do not create this type of inheritance without understanding how people’s lives and hearts are reached. I think we will not see someone who has this mix of talent, boldness and humanity. It is clear that it is in music. But being with him in the world, people were going out and saying, “Quinsi, I did this and this and this”, and he always had a way to remove them – the inclination stream and made it an interaction.
You have a favorite song or album?
One of the first melodies that I learned at all from Quincy’s is a song called “Razzamatazz“From“ The Master ”.
“Only once“It is one for me from the” elegant “. The thing that happens in the end –
Where the tone rises: [sings] “Look for a way to stay together …” it’s unrealistic. The thing in Queens is that he understood the consensual context of such things because it did the arrangement. The song could have stayed easily in C-Major, but no-you should ascend. It was just the most wonderful.
What is your most famous musical position?
I can be completely thorny with adjustment. I have discovered Microtonality, so on the one hand, it’s like everything in harmony, right? But sometimes I will hear the copper or quadruple series that plays a piece of classic music completely harmoniously with the piano, and I love, “This is a shame, because the piano itself is not in harmony.”
Now that the “Djesse” project has been completed, what will be your next record?
i don’t know yet. This is the first time that I have not known for seven years – this is an excitement for me. Many of the things I built and made in the past were “100,000 votes” as the largest example. Now that I did it, I think my mind is eager to smaller containers. What if you record the piano or only on the guitar?
If it cannot be you, who will enjoy seeing the victory album for this year?
I think Beyonce Brave, praise people for that. She could not achieve this record, or could make something more clear. I think he was rude, and I think he came from a place to find out what she really wanted to say and say it really. So I will feel upset to lose him in front of Beyonce.
