New Music Albums: HERE BECAUSE OF HOPE (Ezra Collective)

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Artist:
Ezra Collective

Genre:
Jazz
R&B
Reggae
International

Total Time:
63:23

Record Label:
Partisan Records

Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify

Release Date
September 18, 2026

Find out more about this album release after the jump.

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Product Description: Ezra Collective's Here Because Of Hope is the most ambitious and personal record of their career - conceived as a body of work split into three spiritual and geographical movements, the album traces the movement of Black people across continents and decades, from the music of Africa to the rhythms of the Caribbean, and home to the streets of London. Formed in the youth clubs of London, Mercury Prize and BRIT Award-winners Femi Koleoso, TJ Koleoso, Joe Armon-Jones, James Mollison and Ife Ogunjobi have now spent over a decade making jazz joyful, urgent and undeniable. On Here Because Of Hope, they push that vision further than ever, asking a simple but profound question: why does so much Black music born out of pain sound so joyful? Their answer is hope: the belief, carried across generations and oceans, that something better is possible. Anchored by collaborations with Pa Salieu, Lila Iké, Leona Lewis, and reaching across the full breadth of the global African diaspora (including America, where those same African and Caribbean roots gave birth to jazz itself) Here Because Of Hope is a record of remarkable warmth, ambition and humanity, and the sound of Britain's most vital band at the peak of their powers

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Part 1 . (00:45)

2 . Blow Your Trumpet (04:20)

3 . Sweet Echo (05:17)

4 . on't Worry (03:45)

5 . Only Love Ezra Collective feat. Pa Salieu (03:23)

6 . Someday (05:48)

7 . Part 2 . (00:36)

8 . Birdie Sings (04:14)

9 . The Last Stand (03:52)

10 . Well Organised Ezra Collective feat. Lila Iké (03:32)

11 . El Corazón (04:06)

12 . Bunny on the Rise (04:22)

13 . Part 3 . (00:48)

14 . All I Need Ezra Collective feat. Leona Lewis (04:32)

15 . Jubilee Feeling (04:15)

16 . Black Flag (04:23)

17 . Most High Ezra Collective feat. Libianca (05:22)

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