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For the time being, Corpening is living in Atlanta and working with a stripped-down setup consisting of an MPC Live and an SP-404. If the pressures of the pandemic weren't enough, when Hurricane Ida touched down in late August, Corpening and his family were among the many New Orleanians who were forced to temporarily relocate. It was like a journey through time, but also this duality similar to Space Is the Place where you have this high, next level of spirituality, versus some Squid Game-level capitalism." I had a dream that my uncle Rufus Harley and Sun Ra came to me in a spaceship. "In the beginning of the pandemic, like March 2020, I was having a lot of crazy dreams induced by stress. Thematically, Corpening explains that the initial inspiration for the album came to him in the form of some truly strange and impactful dreams about the state of the world. I recently upgraded to the MPC Live because I've got a baby on the way and I wanted something that I could use on the move." "Basically, I was like, How do I combine this astral, spiritual jazz with grimy, dusty, b-boy aesthetic boom-bap beats? I was using the SP-404 and the MPC1000. Speaking with Reverb for this piece, Corpening talks about the specific sound that he was aiming for when cooking up the music on his trusted Roland SP-404 and MPC1000. (Preorder it on vinyl now through Fat Beats.) Culling vocal samples from Sun Ra's 1974 cult film Space Is the Place and '70s Blaxploitation, Welcome Home Brother Willy is a trippy musical journey augmented by odd vocal samples that dart in and out of the mix. GRILCHY PARTY FAVORS vol.1 WINO WILLY- WELCOME HOME BROTHER WILLY by WINO WILLYįor his follow up project, Welcome Home Brother Willy, Corpening tapped into the dustiest jazz crates to craft a bizarre, instrumental hip-hop opus. On the production side, Burlap's hazy, ever-shifting, boom-bap production gives the album a sound that is as nuanced and complex as it is hard as nails. His debut album, Burlap was released in 2019 and the album is full of slick and insightful rhymes.

Consisting of Wino Willy, deliciousbeets, AKFA, and friendkerrek, Bag Season's producers collectively built their buzz playing at Counter Sessions, a monthly producer showcase held at the Sea Cave arcade in New Orleans' Bywater neighborhood.Īfter spending his teen years attending school in China and performing beat sets from Shanghai to New York and various points in between, Corpening was already a veteran artist by the time he got to New Orleans. Upon arriving, Corpening would connect with a crew of producers that brought a fresh sound to New Orleans' underground music scene. When Jersey-born MC and producer Wino Willy (aka Charles Corpening) moved to New Orleans in 2018, it was the culmination of a personal and musical journey that began in his youth. Photo used with permission from the artist.