EZRA COLLECTIVE2023 MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE WINNERS RELEASE NEW SINGLE:
“STREETS IS CALLING”
FEATURING M.ANIFEST & MOONCHILD SANELLY
LISTEN HERE
FROM NEW ALBUM:
‘DANCE, NO ONE’S WATCHING’
OUT 27TH SEPT, VIA PARTISAN
PREORDER HERE
UK TOUR THIS NOVEMBER
+ HEADLINE SHOW AT LONDON’S OVO ARENA WEMBLEY IN LONDON, FRI 15TH NOV
BUY TOUR TICKETS HERE
EZRA COLLECTIVE, winners of the 2023 Mercury Music Prize Award, are back with new single “Streets Is Calling” featuring M.anifest and Moonchild Sanelly, listenhere. “Streets Is Calling” is the third single from their highly anticipated upcoming album ‘Dance, No One’s Watching’ out Sept 27th. Pre-orderhere.
“Streets Is Calling” brings together the sounds of Highlife, Amapiano and Afrobeats, continuing to lead listeners to the dancefloor, as noted by Femi Koleso:
‘Streets Is Calling’ is about the feeling when people call you up and message you and say, yo, there’s this party happening tonight and that’s all you need. The Streets have called. We’re gonna go straight to this dance floor to make it our own.’
“Streets Is Calling” follows the release of “Ajala” and “God Gave Me Feet For Dancing” featuring Yazmin Lacey. Both singles have seen an outpouring of love from fans, media and peers. “God Gave Me Feet For Dancing” has seen additions across BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra marking the first Jazz artist to be playlisted on both stations.
Ezra Collective kicked off their summer with a sold-out performance at the British Library’s Beyond the Bassline exhibition, followed by a show at Central Park’s SummerStage in New York. With a few more festival dates ahead, fans will have the chance to experience the band’s award-winning discography and new material throughout their upcoming tour, which includes an historic night at London’s OVO Arena Wembley on November 15th as they become the first UK Jazz act to headline. With additional out-store dates also recently annoucned, Ezra’s full list of UK Dates are below – tickets available here.
EZRA COLLECTIVE – UK TOUR DATES 2024
28-Sep-24 – Nottingham The Level (out-store)
29-Sep-24 – Liverpool Camp & Furnace (out-store)
30-Sep-24 – Bristol SWX (out-store)
1-Oct-24 – Brighton Chalk (out-store)
2-Oct-24 – Leeds Project House
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6-Nov-24 – Birmingham Institute
7-Nov-24 – Leeds Project House
8-Nov-24 – Glasgow Barrowlands
10-Nov-24 – Manchester O2 Apollo
13-Nov-24 – Bristol Beacon
14-Nov-24 – Bristol Beacon
15-Nov-24 – London OVO Arena Wembley
Tickets on sale here
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Aptly titled, Ezra’s Collective’s third studio album ‘Dance, No One’s Watching’ is an ode to the sacred, yet joyous act of dancing. Written throughout 2023 as the band toured the world, the album documents the dance floors they encountered.
‘Dance, No One’s Watching’ is an ode to the sacred, yet joyous act of dancing, an album that musically guides you through a night out in the city, from the opening of possibilities as a new evening spans out ahead, to dawn’s final hours as the night comes to a close.
The album was recorded at Abbey Road studios, where the band was surprised by a group of close friends and family, turning the sessions into a live communal celebration of love, music, and dancing. Out Sept 27th 2024.
2023 was a landmark year for Ezra Collective. In addition to becoming the first ever Jazz act to win the Mercury Prize in its 31-year history for their critically-acclaimed album ‘Where I’m Meant To Be’, they sold out their entire UK/EU/US tour (including 10,000 tickets at both their Hammersmith & Royal Albert Hall headlines), won Best Jazz Act at last year’s MOBO Awards, held one of the most revered sets at Glastonbury, performed at Quincy Jones’ star-studded birthday party, were named Time Out’s Londoners of 2023 and closed out the year as the final guests of 2023 on The Graham Norton Show & Top of the Pops Review of 2023.
Kicking off 2024 in a similar fashion, they were tapped by Daniel Lee to perform at his Burberry x Harrods takeover and launched the British Library’s upcoming Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British music exhibition on May 11thand recently covered ES Magazine, featured in British Vogue, and cover stars of this month’s Music Week and Mixmag.
Stay tuned for more.
LISTEN TO “STREETS IS CALLING”HERE.
PRE-ORDER ‘DANCE, NO ONE’S WATCHING’ HERE – OUT 27 SEPT
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