Jacob Collier: World O World
The official sheet music for Jacob Collier's World O World, the final track on his 2024 album Djesse Vo/ 4, is now available from Boosey & Hawkes in both the original and a simplified edition.
Jacob Collier paints with a vast array of musical brushes, crafting intricate harmonies, rhythmic shapes and melodic colours, creating a multi sensory world for his fans and with his collaborators across the globe. The final track on Collier's four-part, genre-bending, award-winning, and world-conquering Djesse album series, World O World is a seven minute choral opus, recorded in partnership with Jason Max Ferdinand and the Aeolians of Oakwood University. Hymn-like throughout, the moving lyrics and harmonic language crescendo into an astonishing climax worthy of being the current denouement on the celebrated 30-year old's remarkable catalogue of work.
>Watch the official score performance video
World O World is available in two versions, the original voicing, as well as a simplified edition approved by the composer, which makes the work more approachable to smaller and/or less advanced choirs.
About Jacob Collier
Beloved by audiences and heralded by fellow musicians and critics alike as one of the most gifted, trail-blazing artists of modern times, Jacob Collier has already taken the creative world by storm. His joyous and genre-bending 5-album discography to date has led to six GRAMMY wins along with 12 GRAMMY nominations, including Album of the Year in 2021, making Collier the first British artist to win a Grammy for each of his first 4 albums.
His infectiously joyous approach to music has attracted a roster of some 100+ collaborators to date - from Coldplay to SZA, Colombian superstar Camilo to K-Pop supergroup aespa, right through to Malian singer Oumou Sangare to legendary composer Hans Zimmer.
Jacob has recently completed the finale of his 4 Volume epic Djesse series, with Volume 4 released on February 29th, 2024, featuring some 30+ collaborators alongside 150,000+ voices from audiences he recorded all around the world during is 2022 world tour.
Though Jacob has already achieved more than most artists could hope for in a lifetime, he is still restlessly creative. With such an ineffable and unpredictable career to date, the only certainty is that Jacob will continue to surprise and delight, no matter which avenue he explores next.
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