Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
September 19, 2025 – Detroit, MI – Critically acclaimed progressive art-rock band Art in America, in partnership with Iconoclassic Records, announces the new release of Rise, the long-awaited follow-up to its groundbreaking self-titled debut album, Art in America. Album Network sums up their sound in this way: “Taking cues from Genesis and Yes, this progressive art-rock band exploded on the scene in 1983 with their debut album Art in America featuring a symphonic harp. This powerful, dynamic music commands attention for both its philosophically probing lyrics and entrancing instrumental arrangements.” Rise follows years of anticipation and requests from fans for more music from a band that, upon their arrival, blazed new trails in the American progressive rock scene, and then simply vanished. Art in America was the first band to feature a concert harp as a main instrument in a rock band, and Rise takes full advantage of Shishonee Flynn’s Lyon & Healy string pedal harp as well as her introducing Indian tambura and Japanese koto into the new album.
September 19, 2025 – Detroit, MI – Critically acclaimed progressive art-rock band Art in America, in partnership with Iconoclassic Records, announces the new release of Rise, the long-awaited follow-up to its groundbreaking self-titled debut album, Art in America. Album Network sums up their sound in this way: “Taking cues from Genesis and Yes, this progressive art-rock band exploded on the scene in 1983 with their debut album Art in America featuring a symphonic harp. This powerful, dynamic music commands attention for both its philosophically probing lyrics and entrancing instrumental arrangements.” Rise follows years of anticipation and requests from fans for more music from a band that, upon their arrival, blazed new trails in the American progressive rock scene, and then simply vanished. Art in America was the first band to feature a concert harp as a main instrument in a rock band, and Rise takes full advantage of Shishonee Flynn’s Lyon & Healy string pedal harp as well as her introducing Indian tambura and Japanese koto into the new album.
