Chuck Prophet - Wake The Dead [LP] The Lion King Be A Witness

Be A Witness

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The track is a slow-burning tropical-funk/reggae cut built around a loping groove

Dessner developed the existing material and wrote new instrumental trackswhich he sent Vernon

Chuck Prophet - Wake The Dead [LP] The Lion King Be A WitnessChuck's first album in 4 years is inspired by the cumbia bands he saw at San Francisco clubs in the pandemic's aftermath, while undergoing cancer treatment. The music was a source of joy, during a dark time. He started playing with Qiensave? a cumbia band based in Salinas, CA. The result is 11 new Chuck Prophet songs wrapped in a cumbia shell. The latin rhythms & chord progressions merge with Chuck's signature song styles to create something new that