Product Information

Barcode: 720841304913
Artist: Ezra Collective (All Products)
Label: Partisan Records
Pressing: Canada Press
Release Date: 2024
Country Of Origin: UK
Product Format: LP
Language: English
Number Of LP: 2
Product Weight: 450g

One year on from making history as the first ever jazz band to be awarded the Mercury Prize, Ezra Collective are continuing to pump out their sensational, unique blend of jazz, roots, afrobeat and calypso. 'Dance No One's Watching' is the highly anticipated follow-up to the aforementioned award-winning 'Where I'm Meant to Be'. Set to release in September, the two singles 'God Gave Me Feet For Dancing' and 'Ajala' set the bar high. The prior is a jazzy, drum-led groove backing the buttery smooth Yazmin Lacey, a name to watch in the soul scene (famously she was scouted after being persuaded to sing on a drunken night out.) The track is a sunny interpolation of Cy Grant's 'Feeling Good' (though let's face it, Nina Simone truly made that record) with a quintessential British soul sound that brings to mind the stylings of Greentea Peng, early Jorja Smith work etc. To boil it down to 'easy listening' would feel reductive but, my God, it's easy on the ears for sure. Single number two, 'Ajala' is quite a stark contrast. Incorporating the hectic feeling of bebop classics, it's a blaring and fast-paced brass session with some great high-tempo percussive afrobeat. Taking its name from the Yoruba slang for fidgety, derived from the Nigerian journalist who one day decided to travel the world on a moped, the track does just that: it begs you to get up and move. If these two tracks are anything to go by, the world is set for a future award winner this Autumn.

Track List
Side A

Intro
The Herald
Palm Wine
God Gave Me Feet For Dancing

Side B

Ajala
The Traveller
N29

Side C

No One's Watching Me
Hear My Cry
Shaking Body
Expensive

Side D

Streets is Calling
Why I Smile
Have Patience
Everybody

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