Ezra Collective release God Gave Me Feet For Dancing

Ezra Collective, winners of the 2023 Mercury Music Prize Award, 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 Tuesday, June 18th on Partisan Records. The accompanying video directed by Tajana Tokyo 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.

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. .

Ezra Collective ft. Yazmin Lacey – God Gave Me Feet For Dancing

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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.”

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 11 th and recently covered ES Magazine.