Jacob Collier on creativity and discipline - Bulletin 11/11/19
The latest podcast interview on songwriting from our former pupils, Simon Barber and Brian O’Connor (“Sodajerker On Songwriting” - previously mentioned in relation to Colin Hay) is a quite wonderful episode with the prodigiously talented, young British multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer and double-Grammy winner, Jacob Collier (no. 147 - previous interviewees include Paul Simon, Paul McCartney, Johnny Marr, Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach, Sting and many more). https://www.sodajerker.com/episode-147-jacob-collier/ Listen, in particular, from 15m 40s to 17m 45s where he speaks about collaboration with other musicians as follows: “I’m going to let the thing that I thought would happen go in favour of what’s happening... collaborating, for me it’s a sort of life exercise. It’s like, how can I strip down things that I expected to happen, but maintain this point of the narrative of my piece and for this to fee...