The Way It Is The Funky Knuckles

• 1 I Believe 07:26
• 2 Montana 03:09
• 3 2020 08:03
• 4 Back Meetings 05:57
• 5 Social Distancing 04:10
• 6 Mind Runs 05:46
• 7 Beyond Us 05:10
• 8 What It Is 06:30
• 9 Loquacious 10:33
• 10 Forever Is Not Natural 04:25
• Total Runtime 01:01:09

Info for The Way It Is

You may understand, you may not, but thats just The Way It Is.

Over their 10 year tenure as a band, The Funky Knuckles have developed an increasingly unique voice. Their fifth album, The Way it Is, takes new risks that demonstrate a surprising amount of trust between musicians. The exhilarating recklessness of the improvisations exhibit a level of collaboration that could only come from years of performance and friendship. With every band member contributing original material, The Funky Knuckles is a collective, in the truest sense of the word.

After spending most of 2020-2021 in a damp cave, the band felt a deep yearning to make the weirdest album humanly possible. Even with the help of 372 gophers and 3 manatees, the recording took at least 2 hours to complete. It is also the first album ever to be recorded entirely onto analog blocks of cheese.

The album pairs well with: Hulk Hogan, Shrimp Cocktail, Neck Tattoos. Doesn’t mix with: Macho Man Randy Savage, Waiting on Hold, Lactose Intolerance.

The Funky Knuckles is a world-class jazz orchestra made up of genetically-enhanced cybernetic supermen. Their mind-blowing rhythms and harmonic complexity will shatter your fragile psyche and leave you drowning in a pool of fresh llama milk. The Oracle has foretold that this album will revolutionize the sport of music for generations to come. This unstoppable crime-fighting squadron will make you dance like a kraken on meth before you burst into tears of joy which can be combined with powder from a ground-up cobra skull to synthesize the elixir that allows you to pass through solid objects.

Ben Bohorquez, saxophone
Ethan Ditthardt, guitar
Kwinton Gray, keyboards
Cedric Moore, drums, cymbals
Wes Stephenson, bass
Evan Weiss, trumpet

The Funky Knuckles
The inevitable result of a talent-soaked soul and jazz community, The Funky Knuckles are taking the sound of Dallas to an entirely different level. They have been together six years and have held a weekly residency since the beginning. The band is comprised of sidemen from some of the most respected acts in the music industry (Beyonce, Erykah Badu, Chrisette Michelle, Talib Kweli, P. Diddy, The Polyphonic Spree, etc.), yet possesses a sound distinctly separate from any of their individual projects.

The Funky Knuckles move together musically as a school of fish, never complacent and always stretching the boundaries of improvisation and composition. Whether performing original music or standards, they draw from each member’s musical experiences to create their unique genre-bending sound. After the release of their debut album on GroundUP Music, As of Lately, The Knuckles added a full-time horn section and began touring nationally.

Meta-Musica (also on GroundUP), climbed the Jazz Charts to become the #1 selling record in the United States the day it was released.

This album contains no booklet.