You like Jacob Collier's music too! That's so cool, I think I've been listening to Djessie vol 2 a lot lately. What's your fav album/song at the moment?
YESSS omg oh goodness ok. Last year was the year when I listened to Jacob SO much he was my top artist. This year ive been exploring other things over jacob but still listen to him. As of now I don’t have super strong, varying opinions like i did last year as i discovered everything one by one.
Id sayyy that the Djesse project is so much cooler together than it is as single albums, and the djesse project is my favorite THING Jacob has made but if i HADD to choose one album (and I will), I’ll say Djesse volume one. I love every single song and the scale and splendor. As Jacob says volume one feels enormous, there is so much space! I’d say it’s potentially djesse’s most balanced album, and in that it sets up the rest of the experience very well. I just love everything about the album. Thematically and in subject wise it’s the most personally cool and interesting. Themes of creation, fundamentality, concepts beyond reality and scale and logic. Agh I just eat these things up. And as I said before, every single song is absolutely perfect to me, and the mini narrative it tells is something I’d wish to illustrate and maybeeee even animate one day). And Djesse volume one contains what I’d have to choose as my favorite song.
The SONG Djesse hits so incredibly close to me with some previously un described and unnspoken things about the energy, vastness, impossibility and invisible, private, absurdity of having ideas and dreams. Listening to it fully and completely for the first time was the first time in my i ever felt as if the way in which i imagined and wanted was ever shared by another person, proving that it was a real thing, that having vast worlds of seemingly unobtainable ideas and ambitions was ok, that other people felt it!! That other people have chosen to chase their impossibly enormous imaginations and have created intense beauty out of it.
Like, the message of Djesse is so so so important to me, and on top of it all the song came to me at a time where i was choosing to tentatively, maybe, chase those vast unobtainable ideas and dreams for the first time, and it felt so stupid. It can’t be overstayed how much that song meant to me at the time and how much it still does.
