Making Movies

Siembra y llegará. As Making Movies delivers its fourth album, XOPA, the Kansas City band proves true the maxim which, in English, is like an encouraging version of “reap what you sow.” Making Movies’ dynamic sound encompasses the entirety of the Americas: crunching classic rock into Latin American rhythms — African-derived percussion and styles like rumba, merengue, mambo and cumbia — in a way that feels oddly familiar, yet delivers the invigorating chills of hearing something singularly special. “The goal is to create music that includes every bit of our individual identities,” vocalist Enrique Chi says. “Music is our way to find a deeper understanding of our own stories. It’s a healing of sorts.”