Exit Mesa

Shortly before I left California, I finished composing and recording the material for what would become my second album: Exit Mesa. This album uses a combination of electronic instruments, hardware and software, combined with guitar parts recorded live. Mixed and edited on many flights between Sydney and San Francisco, and finally finished once I’d found my feet again in Sydney, “Exit Mesa” was released in early 2019. The performance name is was released under “Strollfold” is a combination of the two working titles for the album “Strolling off the Mesa” and “Fold”, which after being written many times on my to-do list became increasingly shortened to “Work on Stroll & Fold”, and eventually “Strollfold” became the name that stuck.

Ableton was the DAW of choice for this project, and the sounds were primary from an Arturia Matrix Brute, Roland Juno 106, Roland TR8-S drum machine, Access Virus TI2, and a host of software instruments from Arturia, Xfer Records (Serum) and Native Instruments.