Where I’m Meant To Be

Ezra Collective’s new era, a venture in discovered maturity and raised stakes, will be defined by the anticipated second album. 'Where I’m Meant To Be' is a thumping celebration of life, an affirming elevation in the Ezra Collective’s winding hybrid sound and refined collective character. The songs marry cool confidence with bright energy. Full of call and response conversations between their ensemble parts, a natural product of years improvising together on stage, the album which also features Sampa The Great, Kojey Radical, Emile Sandé , Steve McQueen, and Nao will light up sweaty dance floors and soundtrack dinner parties in equal measure. The group consisting of Femi (who also drums for Gorillaz) as drummer and bandleader, Joe Armon Jones on keys, James Mollison on saxophone, Ife Ogunjobi on trumpet, and Femi’s younger brother TJ on bass guitar originally came together in 2012 as teenagers at the youth band of Tomorrow’s Warriors, a music education initiative at the South Bank Centre in London. They have since shot forward to become architects of a new phase in their city’s musical journey, a hybrid time in which Black genres jazz, grime, afrobeat and more can dovetail and harmonize fluidly, at new, forever rising levels. Two 140g black LPs housed in a wide spine single sleeve jacket with two printed inner sleeves.