''Djesse Vol. 3'' ( ) is the fourth studio album by English musician

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and the third album in the ''Djesse'' series, released on 14 August 2020. ''Djesse'' is a collection of four volumes that was announced 29 October 2018. The title ''Djesse'' is a reference to Collier's own initials. Each of the albums in the series has been described by

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as representing different parts of the day, the third being described as night. The concurrent Djesse World Tour 2022 has been ongoing since beginning in North America in March, landing in the UK and Europe in June, and heading towards Asia and Australia for the latter part of the year. The tour is scheduled to play in 91 locations worldwide. At the 2021 Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for the Album of the Year; the track "All I Need" was nominated for the

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; and the track "He Won't Hold You" won the Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals.

Background

The quadruple-album project ''Djesse'' was announced during a YouTube livestream on 29 October 2018. The first two volumes of the project, '' Djesse Vol. 1'' and ''

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'', were released in December 2018 and July 2019 respectively. Describing ''Djesse'', Collier has said: "What I was determined to do about two and a half years ago when I set out on this voyage was to, in some way, describe all of the music that I had been listening to for my whole life... The way in which I conceived of the whole thing was not particularly based on genre, but based on space." Collier has described ''Djesse Vol. 3'' as always having been "... the olumeI was most excited about because it enabled me the space to explore a lot of the negative space type sounds, sounds made in the digital sphere, electronic stuff, which I suppose lends itself to hip-hop and R&B, and you've got soul music in there, and you've got funky music in there. And pop as well." On 17 March 2020, due to the

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, Collier postponed the 2020 leg of his Djesse World Tour. In the same statement, he said that he was working to finish ''Djesse Vol. 3''. The album was released just under 5 months later, on 14 August 2020.

Singles and music videos

Collier released five singles and six music videos for ''Djesse Vol. 3''. The first single, "Time Alone with You" featuring

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, was released 29 November 2019. The music video for "Time Alone With You", released 5 December 2019, was directed and edited by Collier himself. The second single, "In My Bones", featuring

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and Tarriona "Tank" Ball, was released 25 March 2020. The music video for "In My Bones" was also released on 25 March 2020. Kimbra and Tarriona "Tank" Ball both appear in the video. The third single, "All I Need", featuring

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and Mahalia, was released 14 May 2020. The music video for "All I Need", was released on 17 June 2020. Tee Ken Ng directed and animated the video, which is presented as a series of circular papers that, when spun on a record player, appear to create a moving picture, similar to a

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. The fourth single, "He Won't Hold You", featuring

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, was released 10 July 2020. The music video for "He Won't Hold You" was released 16 July 2020. Daniel Bruson animated and edited the video to have a hand-drawn aesthetic, hand-painting over 1200 images. The fifth single, "Running Outta Love", featuring

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, was released 31 July 2020. The fifth music video, for "Sleeping On My Dreams", was released 17 August 2020, three days after the album's release. It was filmed in a single day in January 2020, and features Collier dancing with a group of nine professional dancers. The sixth music video, a

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for "Count the People", directed by BASA and Collier, was released 26 August 2020.

Television and other appearances

On 26 May 2020, Collier appeared on ''

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'', releasing an at home version of "All I Need" in which he played traditional instruments and sang, as well as using noises from household items, all from inside his bathroom. Mahalia and Ty Dolla Sign made appearances as well. Collier made another video of himself performing the song from home (again featuring Mahalia) for the

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's show '' Later... with Jools Holland''. A version of "Running Outta Love" was shown on ''

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'' with Collier and Tori Kelly performing. On 9 July 2020, a Tiny Desk At Home Concert by Collier was released on NPR. In the 16-minute set, Collier performs "All I Need", "Time Alone With You", and "He Won't Hold You". To make the video, he filmed himself performing the set four times (once on bass, once on drums, once on keyboard, and once on melodica and percussion, with all four singing); the four videos were then edited together by Collier, stitched into one continuous shot. On 13 January 2021, Collier and Mahalia performed "All I Need" on ''

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''. On 26 January, Collier performed "Sleeping On My Dreams" on ''

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''.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jacob Collier, except where noted. All tracks are produced by Jacob Collier, except "Count The People" (produced by Collier and Ben Bloomberg).

Notes

* "Clarity" is stylized in

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* signifies a co- producer

Personnel

– vocals, instruments, arrangements, engineering, producer, and mixing Additional musicians * Tarriona "Tank" Ball – featured vocals * Erin Bentlage – vocals * Ben Bloomberg – background vocals *

– featured vocals * Ella Collier – background vocals * Sophie Collier – background vocals * Suzie Collier – background vocals * James Copus – flugelhorn , trumpet * Julia Easterlin – background vocals * JoJo – additional vocals *

– featured vocals *

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– featured vocals * Mahalia – featured vocals * Michael Mayo – background vocals *

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– electric bass * Michael Peha – background vocals *

– featured vocals *

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– featured vocals * Nathan Schram – background vocals * Kristen Sing – spoken word *

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– background vocals * Chelsea Stevens – background vocals *

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– featured vocals *

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– background vocals *

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– featured vocals Additional technical personnel * Chris Allgood – mastering * Ben Bloomberg – mix engineer , co-producer , programming , synthesizer programming * Marlanna Evans – vocal engineer for Rapsody * DJ Fai – vocal recording engineer for Ty Dolla $ign * Wissam Ghorayeb – vocal recording engineer for JoJo *

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– mastering * Matthew Maroulakos – assistant recording engineer * Kerry Pompeo – assistant recording engineer

References

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