Indie music meets Occupy on Annabelle Chvostek’s Rise, a rousing celebration of recent grassroots uprisings in Canada and around the world – complete with casseroles, a “peoples’ chorus” and a cover of Peter Tosh’s “Equal Rights.” The one-time Montreal underground artist, who went on to write chart-topping roots songs and play New York’s Town Hall as a member of the Wailin’ Jennys, shows off a whole other side of her musical personality on Rise, as compared to 2008’s Resilience – the album that introduced her fearless innovation and beguiling indie folk sound to a massive, post-Jennys audience. Where Resilience was a plaintive album that showcased Chvostek’s originality in contemplating matters of the heart, Rise is joyful, anthemic, and unabashedly political, revealing Chvostek’s passion for social justice work and musical activism. Call it protest music for the indie generation or a soundtrack for the Maple Spring. Rise was produced by ex-Rheostatic Don Kerr and mixed by Grammy and Oscar nominee Roma Baran. It features guest vocals by Cockburn and Oh Susanna, guitars by David Celia, and percussion by Debashis Sinha of Autorickshaw and Minor Empire.