Howlin Wuelf Media :: Make A Rising

Philadelphia's Make A Rising is back: bigger and better than ever. Expanded to a sextet for its second album, Infinite Ellipse and Head with Open Fontanel, Make A Rising has realized its potential.

After laudatory press for the 2005 debut Rip Through the Hawk Black Night, Make A Rising hunkered down and began working on an intricate, elaborate follow-up. Infinite Ellipse and Head With Open Fontanel features contributions by members of Normal Love, Fern Knight, Shot × Shot, and others. Holographic in nature and transpersonal in effect, Make A Rising is a band that composes unlike any other. While most experimental bands reside either completely inside or totally outside traditional pop song forms. Make A Rising writes its own rules. The result is excitingly original and marvelous amalgam of genres and influences, layered with spontaneity and energy. We wouldn't say it, if we didn't mean it: Absolute masterpiece.

While the band's debut earned Make A Rising plenty of fans and admirers across the country, Infinite Ellipse finds the band have refined and expanded its unique style. While Rip Through showed a inventive band full of ideas, Infinite Ellipse showcases a band that has coalesced its ideas and has painstakingly perfected its elaborate and necessarily complex recording process.

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Make A Rising formed in 2003 out of the ashes a few other projects (the band was originally known as New Planet Make A Rising). Ambitious from the beginning, Make A Rising resolved early on to have an ever-evolving sound. There are certain reference points in the music, but the band has never been limited itself into a specific genre. The concept of the band is that of Make A Rising as a "composition" group. The band writes music slightly out of its own comfort zone; so as the band has evolved, they have had to change the way they write. Each Make A Rising song distinctly Make A Rising, but at the same time, they have no two songs that are closely similar. Though all the members contribute to the process, brothers Justin and Jesse Moynihan are the main writers in the group. Like its predecessor, Infinite Ellipse's tracks vary not only from each other, but have numerous various parts in each song. Very rarely is anything straightforward or obviously sequential. One of the key attributes of the band is not only how well they integrate different musical genres, but how well they seemlessly weave disparate sounds together.

The result is a tremendous album that strikes a balance between the exploration of ideas and emotional depth. While Infinite Ellipse has a chaotic outer layer, a few listens reveal a distinct narrative arc that illuminates the focus the band put on making Infinite Ellipse a great album – and not just a group of songs.

The last three years has seen Make A Rising sharing the stage with artists such as Dr. Dog, Dirty Projectors, Lightning Bolt, Man Man, Uz Jsme Doma, Pattern is Movement, Gang Gang Dance, Neil Hamburger, as well as two South by Southwest appearances (2006 and 2008) and headlining the opening night of the Popped! Philadelphia festival.

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