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who has been based in Düsseldorf since 1994

" – the mission statement of Ezra Collective’s second album

the album represents a pivotal moment in the emergence of the “Birmingham Sound”

Led by composer/arranger and UK-based Djembe player Yahael Camara Onono

in Greenwich Village Knitting Factory Records who has been based inIn the mid '60s, Albert Ayler found himself at the center of major transformations within jazz. On his albums for ESP Disk', his delivery was radically aggressive and his tone blistering aiming for something beyond the New Thing. His music would be further energized when (at the behest of John Coltrane) Bob Thiele signed him to Impulse! As Ayler told The Plain Dealer at the time, "It's not about notes anymore. It's a sound a feeling. The approach