MAKENESS

about

Makeness is the solo project of Scottish electronic artist & multi-instrumentalist Kyle Molleson. Molleson was born in the Outer Hebrides, Scottish Highlands, where he spent the first few years of his life, surrounded by Highlands folk music and his dad’s bagpipe bands. Molleson then moved to Dorset, Southwest England for the majority of his childhood. It was there that Molleson started a band with some school friends, which — with a manager and recording sessions in London under their belt — made it halfway to recording an album. But it was in Leeds where Molleson made his most important connections. Moving there for university, his school friend and regular collaborator Tom Howe had also moved to nearby York. Finding himself in a flat with Harry Burgess, he was the link between that pair — making a connection that would soon become Adult Jazz. Meanwhile, he helped to form Glad Hand (then-called Fun Adults) with friends-of-friends drawn from the same circle. At this point, Molleson's interests in guitar and folk music started to expand outward. He discovered the music of Caribou, whose 2013 ‘Swim’ charted a trajectory similar to the one he was following; the sweet spot it found — between left-of-centre pop and club-minded music — struck a chord with the different spheres Molleson was increasingly drawn to himself. At the same time, Flying Lotus’ output was another big eye-opener; his music, as well as Teebs and other signees to the Brainfeeder stable, pointed to psychedeli