Jacob Collier: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Watch Jacob Collier play “Make Me Cry“, “Feel“, “It Don’t Matter“ at the Tiny Desk. More from NPR Music: Tiny Desk Concerts: Twitter: Instagram: July 22, 2019 | Collin Marshall -- As the the NPR staff gathered to watch his performance, Jacob Collier sprinted full bore down the hallway. It seems the North London 24-year-old can hardly contain his creative energy. It comes out in his wardrobe and most definitely in his music, but it’s not misdirected or out of control. These are intricate and precise compositions, like a ship in a bottle made of thousands of planks of wood, yet light enough to sail in a breeze. It’s on a scale you wouldn’t imagine. Here’s an example: This year he covered Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer’s “Moon River“ by recording himself 5,000 times and working in 144 other vocal submissions, and then he printed and