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Mercury Prize and BRIT Award-winning Ezra Collective release their eagerly anticipated fourth studio album, “Here Because of Hope,” out now via Partisan Records.
Arriving at another landmark moment for the band, “Here Because of Hope” celebrates the journey of Black music from West Africa, through the Caribbean and ultimately into Britain, exploring the movement of people, culture and sound across generations, and the ways those histories continue to shape contemporary British music.
The album follows recent singles “Only Love” featuring Pa Salieu, “Well Organised” featuring Lila Iké and the euphoric instrumental “Jubilee Feeling.” Together, the three tracks trace the record’s central musical journey: “Only Love” drawing inspiration from West Africa, “Well Organised” travelling into the Caribbean and “Jubilee Feeling” bringing the story home to London through a joyous meeting of UK jazz and Funky House.
“Here Because of Hope” opens the latest chapter in an extraordinary decade for Ezra Collective. After becoming the first jazz act to win the Mercury Prize and subsequently winning the BRIT Award for Group of the Year, the band have emerged as one of the defining British groups of their generation.
Their rise has taken them from London’s grassroots jazz community to major stages around the world, with performances at Glastonbury, Central Park SummerStage and Sydney Opera House, alongside headline shows at Wembley Arena, the Royal Albert Hall and New York’s Blue Note Jazz Club.
Joy, freedom, community and possibility sit at the heart of “Here Because of Hope”, an album rooted in where Ezra Collective have come from, the people and musical traditions that shaped them, and the hope that continues to carry them forward.
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