{"id":780728,"date":"2026-09-24T05:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T05:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780728\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T05:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T05:22:11","slug":"ezra-collective-interview-new-album-here-because-of-hope-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780728\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezra Collective Interview: New Album &#8216;Here Because Of Hope&#8217; &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was stunned when Ezra Collective drummer Femi Koleoso told me he\u2019s just 31 years old. (He\u2019ll be 32 in October.) I\u2019ve been listening to him for a decade, since the group\u2019s 2016 debut EP, Chapter 7, and two albums he played on the following year, Nubya Garcia\u2019s Nubya\u2019s 5ive and Camilla George\u2019s Isang. The bassist on those latter two releases was Daniel Casimir, but in Ezra Collective, Koleoso is joined by his brother TJ, as well as keyboardist Joe Armon-Jones, trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi (who replaced Dylan Jones on 2022\u2019s Where I\u2019m Meant To Be), and saxophonist James Mollison.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was stunned when Ezra Collective drummer Femi Koleoso told me he\u2019s just 31 years old. (He\u2019ll be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-780728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}