ABOUT THIS ITEM

Rise is a twenty-something beat technician / crate-digger / musician from Manchester. Currently recording for the Futuristica Music label, Rise has worked with and produced for artists such as Deborah Jordan, Replife, Jazz Chronicles, Low Budget Soul, Beit Nun, Truth and Spinnerty to name but a few. Under aliases such as Meccca:83 and REdefinition, he continues to explore new genres and spaces: expanding the ever growing list of pseudonyms that make up the Solar Sound System.

2011 sees the release of the debut Rise album "Messages" on Futuristica Music which is a deep, spiritual jazz record with splashes of hip hop and heavily influenced by Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Madlib, Strata East and Black Jazz. For lovers of the Jazzman label, Nostalgia 77, Cinematic Orchestra and JDilla!