Dearest friends – here are your Christmas sounds!!!
This was about 30 hours' work in total – I broke my record! Unbelievably excited for it to be in the world.
As always, thank you SO much for your continuing support – you make all these things possible!!
Tons of love this holiday time,
JC
2017-12-12 20:24:19 +0000 UTC View PostDearest Patrons,
Happy wintertime to you! I've just arrived home from what has been wonderful (and non-stop) tour, of Los Angeles, the UK and Ireland, and Poland these last few days. What incredible fun it has been – and so amazing to meet lots of you in different parts of the world!
I've got a Christmas video treat for you coming next week, which is stupendously exciting. I SO can't wait for you to hear it – just wanted to give all you pledgers a he...
2017-12-08 23:44:50 +0000 UTC View PostDear Friends! I am thrilled to announce that something very special will be happening in two weeks time in Los Angeles, thanks to one very generous fellow patron of yours :-) I'm going to be hosting an exclusive question-and-answer / open soundcheck on the day of the show at the El Rey (which is sold out!), where a select few people can watch the pre-show run-through (with a crazy lighting rig, for the first time!) and then we can all talk about it afterwards. This is one of the last ever outing...
2017-11-02 00:12:58 +0000 UTC View PostAhoy patrons! The next wave of #InMyRoomJC IHarmU melody harmonisations begins tomorrow and I'm going to be live-streaming the first of the batch – the whole process from start to finish! It will be at 5pm UK time (remember the clocks just went back here!!!) – tune in, if you can!
@Lewin Blümel – it's your melody : )
2017-10-30 21:11:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the download, dear patrons. Thanks so much for all your lovely comments! : )
2017-10-30 14:41:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Here it is!!! What fun we had. Thank you so much, dear patrons. :-)
2017-10-27 15:48:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Patrons aplenty! How are you? I hope you are happy campers out there, wherever you may be. I am unbelievably excited to announce that I will be releasing a new video tomorrow – a collaboration with the wondrous Becca Stevens! We wrote and recorded a song together, and have spent about a year and a half making a CRAZY video for it, almost entirely made out out of stop motion – tens of thousands of photographs, played side by side at the speed of light. It's been such a delight to work on, and...
2017-10-26 23:40:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear friends of mine! It's been a while since I wrote to you. Here's a little update, with some things which may delight you:
First of all, in case you haven't yet seen in, here's a new video of mine! It's a solo Harmoniser rendition of the legendary Imogen Heap song "Hide And Seek", which inspired me to build a harmoniser in the first place.
Secondly, there's a documentary screening in Boston on Friday, about the crazy musical adventure I had in Boston in December with 200 musicians. It...
2017-09-06 00:56:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Two very exciting things I would love to share with you :-)
1. TONIGHT, I am holding a secret, super-intimate Meet & Greet/Q&A/Private Show for a very limited number of fans. It begins at 8pm in Hollywood, and we'll be taking a voyage into the very depths of the One-Man-Show in all of its majesty. My dear friend and co-collaborator from MIT, Ben Bloomberg, will be there with us as we tell its story, and dissect the technology and the way it all fits to...
2017-06-15 20:15:04 +0000 UTC View Post
My dear Patrons!
Apologies for not checking in for a while. Since last we spoke, I've been travelling and touring almost non-stop, and it's been mighty good fun! Here's some highlights from the last couple months:
• Played a bunch of shows! Thank you Amsterdam, Germany, NYC, GroundUP Fest, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Okeechobee Fest, SXSW, Réunion Island, Portland, Seattle!
• I gave a TED talk in Vancouver, last week! It will be released in June, I believe.
• Perfo...
2017-05-03 14:42:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Friends of mine! I thought you might like to see this. I made a video with Samsung, arranging their classic 'Over The Horizon' theme, to be built into their new Galaxy device this year! The video shoot was a mighty undertaking... we shot the whole thing in a single day, using one incredible camera that ran on rails and could do all sorts of leaps and bounds, to achieve the first ever moving-camera multi Jacob world. What great fun it was!
What a crazy, crazy day! Not one, but TWO Grammy awards, for 'You and I' and 'Flintstones' – one right after the other. Thank you, dear friends, for helping me along the way to this unbelivable moment. And we haven't even gotten started!
<3
2017-02-14 20:56:26 +0000 UTC View Post
This was my first attempt at a 360º panoramic stitch of my room for the album cover... made using an app which patches together multiple photographs to create a 360º photo, which (for obvious reasons) didn't end up being the way we did things in the end! We ended up taking it on a 360º camera. Thought you might like to see it, though : )
2017-01-29 14:27:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons! Here is the full live stream from Ronnie Scott's on Thursday. It was a one-off occasion, alongside three astonishing musicians: Robin Mullarkey, Stian Carstensen and Asaf Sirkis! In case you missed it – check it out : )
2017-01-21 20:51:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Friends, so sorry to bother you again today. I've just finished harmonising a glorious #IHarmU from this gentleman, but I have absolutely no record of his name!! If this is you, please hit me up ASAP! Apologies : )
2017-01-01 22:59:26 +0000 UTC View Post
HAPPY NEW YEAR, you wonderful Patrons of mine!
2016 was certainly a year full of challenges on Planet Earth, both great and small... but it's a year for which I am stupendously grateful! There's such a huge amount to reflect on, and such a lot of it was made possible by you, my Patrons.
Here are a few highlights for me:
A Christmas song for you!
Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
Love JC
2016-12-14 18:45:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons – SO excited to share this with you! Thank you so much for all your continued support. You are wonderful.
2016-12-13 23:43:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Folks – here's the link to the Listening Session tonight at 8.30pm! See yuz there :-)
2016-12-09 16:44:53 +0000 UTC View Post
My dear Patrons! What a month. 18 dates tour dates around Europe with the one-man show — I have had such a blast! Having spent a couple of days back at home, I have just landed in Boston for a crazy week of collaboration with MIT, culminating in a big sold out concert on Saturday night with a Big Band, Orchestra and Choir! (and me.) What fun!
Some exciting news: I am hosting a one-off, very special 'In My Room' listening party on Friday night, at a secret location on MIT Campus. We wil...
2016-12-06 07:40:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Just dug this up! Here's the 3-syllable 6 syllable brainstorm I made whilst writing the lyrics for Don't You Know :-)
2016-11-03 16:05:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In My Room vinyl have arrived at last!!! I've been looking forward to this moment for rather a long time.
Head over to http://radi.al/InMyRoomLP to grab a copy! + Bonus Track :-)
Love, JC
2016-10-27 17:50:51 +0000 UTC View PostA couple of videos of Herbie in his car, listening to In My Room, which a friend of mine just sent over!
Dear Patrons all,
I am HOME! Six weeks of touring and exploring the USA, as well as a little of Japan, Switzerland, Germany and Italy, have finally come to a close. What a thoroughly extraordinary experience it has been, to see these songs grow slightly older, to meet so many wonderful humans (and so many of you patrons!!!), and to see parts of the world that I have never seen before! I will be treasuring these moments for many years to come.
It feels wonderful to back home for a couple ...
2016-10-14 16:39:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear friends! A quick hello from mid-tour on the road in the USA! Ben and I are having the time of our lives – managing to find some rest between totally insane shows. We are playing to the most wonderful crowds – I am unbelievably inspired. The solo-show flame has found a whole new brightness! So wonderful to meet SO many of you wonderful Patrons around too : ) In the past week we've visited Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago, and closed the Monterey Jazz Festival on the main st...
2016-09-23 03:02:37 +0000 UTC View Post
My dear friends - for those of you who missed it, here's a compilation of all the #IHarmU melodies I have harmonised over the past couple of months. Such joy!
I know that some of you #IHarmU pledgers are wondering if/when it will be time for your melody to be harmonised – don't be afraid! I have more than 60 melodies still to go, and I will do every single one – in the order in which they were received – so I'll be busy for a while! As you know, I'll be on tour in the US with ...
2016-09-07 13:22:05 +0000 UTC View Post
So thrilled to be able to share this with you – my orchestral arrangement of 'In The Real Early Morning' live from the Quincy Jones Prom at the Royal Albert Hall on Monday, with the Metropole Orkest, conducted by Jules Buckley. What an indescribably special moment it was!!
2016-08-27 10:24:06 +0000 UTC View PostWonderful friends! I'll be doing this month's hangout with one of my greatest friends in the world EVER, Becca Stevens. We're producing music together in my room and we wanna share some of it with you! 6pm. Seeya there. Link coming tomorrow!
2016-08-17 22:13:44 +0000 UTC View Post
