British Jazz Group Ezra Collective Releases New Single “God Gave Me Feet For Dancing” | WATCH NEW VIDEO! New Album “Dance, No One’s Watching” Coming Sept. 27th, 2024 | Announces New Tour for 2024

2023 MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE WINNERS EZRA COLLECTIVE ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM; ‘DANCE, NO ONE’S WATCHING’ OUT SEPT 27TH VIA PARTISAN

LISTEN/WATCH: “GOD GAVE ME FEET FOR DANCING” FEAT. YAZMIN LACEY

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Ezra Collective, winners of the 2023 Mercury Music Prize Award, today announce their highly anticipated upcoming album ‘Dance, No One’s Watching’ out Sept 27th.  To celebrate the album announcement, the band have released the second single from the project featuring acclaimed London singer Yazmin Lacey, “God Gave Me Feet For Dancing”, out now on Partisan Records. The accompanying video directed by Tajana Tokyo (Beyoncé, Janelle Monae) captures the joy of dancing and the impact of movement on the soul and euphoria of a night out.

“God Gave Me Feet for Dancing” follows on from Ezra Collective’s first release of the year “Ajala” which fans were able to catch live at their sold-out performance at the British Library’s Beyond the Bassline exhibition. Others will have a chance to hear the band’s award winning discography and new material across 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. Tickets available here.

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. The second single from the project, “God Gave Me Feet For Dancing” calls on listeners to embrace this act. Femi Koleoso also notes:

“Myself, Ife, and TJ all grew up in church, and it played a massive role in how we view the purpose of dancing. Dancing is bigger than just the club space. Dancing is a community thing, dancing is a spiritual thing, and ‘God Gave Me Feet For Dancing’ is like a window into that element of Ezra Collective for the five of us. There’s a story in the Bible that talks about ‘David dancing before the Lord’, and that’s always been something that has inspired me. So, ‘God Gave Me Feet For Dancing’ is meant to look at dancing in a more spiritual capacity, like it’s our God-given ability to shake away the badness of life and dance instead.”

Pre-order ‘Dance, No One’s Watching’ here

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 11th and recently covered ES Magazine.

Stay tuned for more.

Photo Credit: (L-R: Joe, Femi, TJ, James, Ife) – YOUT

Ezra Collective tour dates:

July 6 – New York, NY – SummerStage (free show)
October 15 – Berlin, DE – Astra
October 16 – Hamburg, DE – Docks
October 18 – Copenhagen, DK – Amager Bio
October 19 – Stockholm Vasateatern
October 20 – Oslo, NL – Rockefeller
October 22 – Cologne Gloria
October 24 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
October 26 – Lyon, FR – Transbordeur
October 27 – Milan, IT – Magazzini Generali
October 28 – Zurich, CH – Kaufleuten
October 30 – Paris, FR – Olympia
October 31 – Lille, FR – Aéronef
November 1 – Brussels, BE – AB
November 6 – Birmingham, UK – Institute
November 7 – Leeds, UK – Project House
November 8 – Glasgow, UK – Barrowlands
November 10 – Manchester, UK – Apollo
November 11 – Dublin, UK – Olympia
November 13 – Bristol, UK – Beacon
November 15 – London, UK – OVO Arena Wembley

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