After a long long time of slow, grinding rehearsals – Make A Rising (Los Angeles edition) played our first show in over 10 years. We played at our house in Echo Park to a bunch of friends who don’t really know us through our music. Three of us are original members (Justin, Jesse and John). The rest are all new friends who agreed to play with us (not including Alex who also moved from Philly, who we’ve known for ages).
Honus from Man Man opened up for us which was cool, since we came up in the same weird music scene. As usual for Make A Rising, the performance was a little rough around the edges! But it was a good start to us feeling like a band again. We plan on playing more shows in the Los Angeles region soon!
Hello to any and all who even look at websites anymore. Also to any and all who keep their antennae out for obscure indie prog bands that have been largely inactive for 10 years.
The major update is that we have been rehearsing at Justin’s house in Los Angeles every week for about a year or more. We are very close to having a set of music to play live. We have 9 members. We also have an Instagram. This will be the best way to know when we’ll have new stuff happening.
This is from a track called “Growing” that we’ll be mixing at the end of August. It features an Oberheim DX drum machine that became an interesting necessity, due to our drummer living on the opposite coast.
I literally just finished recording a new song for Make A Rising. The song is called “growing”. I’ve been working on it for what seems like 2 years. There are 3 other songs that will be completed and mixed by the end of August.
We’ll be mixing at least one new track in July. As well as mixing the soundtrack we’re composing for our Cartoon Hangover pilot. It’s called Manly. It will air on July 31st. You can check out the tumblr here.
Again sorry for the delay. We are very close to having a bunch of new songs coming down the pipeline. It’s just a matter of finding the time.
Two new songs have been mixed and mastered. We are determining our final plan on how to release this series of music. I think we’ll have an idea by next week and make some sort of announcement.
We’re close to completing a few of these songs. We’re discussing releasing them 2 at a time as free downloads. and limited 7″ pressings for those peeps who enjoy physical objects: 15 or 16 songs in all.
The songs will not be released in sequence of how we would imagine them to play as a full length album, but they will be released under a banner title and some kind of signifying symbol that implies a connection between the releases. At least this is how we’re thinking about handling it.
After the complete run of songs are released, I had the idea of listeners suggesting a proper running sequence, as well as which songs to cut and then putting together an official sequence with added material.
All of this is pretty theoretical at this point. At the very least, we will be releasing a 7″ in the next few months. I am going to try to book mixing/mastering time with Colin Marston in January.
Meanwhile I have been jamming with Tom Keville in an LA rehearsal space. Having fun, coming up with stuff for a new project. The plan is that it will be drums, bass, synths, and vocals. Right now it’s just drums and bass and a little bit of Moog when I can get at it. Here’s a little snippet of some idea we’re figuring out.
