Meet a man driven wildly by music. A man classically trained, but rewired with his own two hands. A frequent collaborator, occasional curator and consummate man behind the curtain now emerging at the front of something yet unnamed. Somewhere between the concert hall and the club you�ll find his haunting liquid soundscapes, born of hip-hop composition, o�er-strung with chant, hinting at some divine unreachable. Meet Son Lux. **For his second album as Son Lux, New York�s Ryan Lott did a very un-Son Lux thing. He recorded We Are Rising in a month -- the shortest month of the year, actually -- while NPR tracked his every move. This, as opposed to the making of his lauded 2008 debut, At War With Walls And Mazes, which he slowly built in complete privacy over nearly three years. Of course, he didn�t plan it this way. He simply awoke one late January morning to find a message from All Songs Considered titled, �You busy?� The annual RPM Challenge, an international open call to create an album in 28 days, had been issued and Lott had been tapped. How could he say no? *Lott was, in fact, quite busy. Both with his day job at SoHo editorial house Butter Music + Sound, where We Are Rising was recorded, and with the painstaking assembly of what would�ve been the sophomore Son Lux album. But none of those ideas were allowed into this, so Lott shelved them and instead ran headlong into what would become an exquisitely arranged album of classical notions, modern electronics, unusual pop and transcendent emotion. He made the deadline, and got by with a little help from his friends: folks like the yMusic sextet (Antony, Sufjan, the National), DM Stith, Jace Everett and Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond).