{"product_id":"ezra-collective-where-im-meant-to-be","title":"Ezra Collective - Where I'm Meant to Be","description":"\u003cp\u003eDouble orange and yellow colored vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Includes photobook. 2022 release. Where I'm Meant To Be is a thumping celebration of life, and an affirming elevation in 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, Where I'm Meant To Be is a natural product of years improvising together on-stage. The album - which also features guest artists Sampa The Great, Kojey Radical, Emile Sande and Nao - will light up sweaty dance floors and soundtrack summer dinners in equal measure. The group - consisting of Femi Koleoso (who also drums for Gorillaz) as drummer and bandleader, Joe Armon-Jones on keys, James Mollison on saxophone, Ife Ogunjobi on trumpet, and Koleoso'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. The fourteen tracks on Where I'm Meant To Be took eighteen months to record. This gear-shift, far from the mere hours and days spent on all previous releases, not only reflects the impact of lockdown life on artistic creation - it is buoyed by the patience gained from slowing down.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ezra Collective","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44367909323004,"sku":null,"price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/4975\/4108\/files\/ezra-collective-music-vinyl-records-ezra-collective-where-i-m-meant-to-be-720841302087-39955006226684.jpg?v=1762402850","url":"https:\/\/shop.thirdeyecomics.com\/products\/ezra-collective-where-im-meant-to-be","provider":"Third Eye Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}