‘Hana’ has been made with long-time collaborator and friend Ed Harcourt. It is their third in a trilogy of records, with each stemming around the thematic frame of a location. The collaboration began in 2014 with the critically and commercially successful ‘Wanderlust’, which was inspired by Eastern Europe, and continued in 2016 with ‘Familia’, inspired by Latin America. New album ‘Hana’, which Harcourt describes as “kaleidoscopic joy”, is inspired by East Asia and began with the album track ‘Tokyo’ and Sophie’s first trip to Japan pre-pandemic in 2020.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor shares her brand new seventh studio album HANA, which includes the recently released tracks ‘Breaking The Circle’, ‘Everything is Sweet’ and ‘Lost in the Sunshine’ alongside new focus track ‘Hearing in Colour’, and is out now via Cooking Vinyl.

Filmed live from her home with her family amidst a mixture of loveable fun and chaos, they were a means of virtual escapism for many and became weekly moments of united sequinned catharsis for the hundreds of thousands tuning in. This is a collection of the songs that sound-tracked her lockdown kitchen disco. The album features all of Sophie's biggest and best-known disco hits in one place for the first time ever! It include 6 Top 10 hits, Murder On The Dancefloor and Take Me Home, plus the brand new lead single Crying at the Discotheque.