Ezra Collective – Chapter 7 (10th Anniversary Edition)

Description

Ezra Collective’s ‘Chapter 7’, now celebrating its tenth anniversary, captured the restless energy of a young band finding its voice – spiritually curious, rhythmically fearless, committed to community as compass.

Built on grooves made for sweat-slicked basements and late-night communion, ‘Chapter
7’’s seven movements reveal a blueprint forming: jazz as a living expression of where you come from and who you stand with.

The ‘Chapter 7 (10th Anniversary Edition)’ reissue revisits that formative statement from a band that would soon become trailblazers as both the first British jazz act to win the Mercury Prize and then a BRIT Award.

Remastered for vinyl and expanded with new incarnations – live cuts from NPR’s Tiny Desk and the band’s landmark Royal Albert Hall performance – the reissue presents ‘Chapter 7’ not simply as an early document, but a living manifesto: rhythm as ritual, youth culture as sanctuary and jazz as an open invitation.

Pressed on black vinyl and housed in a single sleeve jacket with printed inner sleeve, featuring credits and a message from the band.

Tracklist:

Enter the Jungle
Chasing the Square
Chapter 7 (Feat. Ty)
I Have a God (Feat. Zara McFarlane)
Colonial Mentality
Chapter 7 [Live at NPR’s Tiny Desk]
I Have a God (Feat. Zara McFarlane) [Live at the Royal Albert Hall]