Cha Wa - Rise Up (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Rise Up is the fourth album by the twice Grammy-nominated, New Orleans-based Afro-Indigenous funk collective Cha Wa. The title refers to the progression of the band from acclaimed regional performers to an accomplished band coming into its own to make its most mature and accessible album yet.

Featuring an ensemble of singers — including guest appearances by The Soul Queen of New Orleans Irma Thomas, John Boutte’ (HBO’s Treme’), and guest keyboards by Roger Joseph Manning (Beck, Jay-Z)—as well as stellar songwriting led by founding musical director and drummer Joe Gelini, the album is a tour de force of original R&B funk anthems poised to export Cha Wa to the world’s stage.

Produced, mixed and mastered by Dave Trumfio (Wilco, Jesus and Mary Chain, My Morning Jacket, Built to Spill, etc.), Rise Up’s crowning achievement is how compellingly its 11 tracks draw on Cha Wa’s foundation as New Orleans musical royalty, especially the band’s enigmatic Mardi Gras Indian frontman, “Spyboy” Irving “Honey” Banister Jr. of the Golden Sioux Tribe. Through its range of original songs, the album elevates its singers to frontmen and its musicians to compelling songwriters in their own right.

Tracklist:
01 Here We Come
02 Music Is My Medicine
03 Why You Wanna Do Me Like That
04 Elijah Rock
05 Freedom of the City
06 Heavy Is the Head
07 Fallen Soldiers
08 Hear the Sound
09 Revival
10 Rise Up
11 Won't Bow Down


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