Anura is a downer pop, loud-but-soft songwriting project, and was my path into the traditional popular forms that I've been exploring with bands since. Washed out vocals over drum machines, guitars, and synths, very bedroom'd-out.
Related Projects
As is standard fare for active noise projects, there was a lot of music tangential to Hey Exit, plus a lot of collaborative projects with friends. Some of these projects are probably down for the count; others spontaneously grow a new limb every few years; still others remain active to some degree.
Advection is my requisite electronics side project, leaning towards ambient and downtempo headphone beats. Laptop music was a first love of mine in the late 90s, and even though it's not my main focus any more, it remains some of my favorite music to make.
Tethers is an instrumental duo with the supreme dude Andrew Weathers (Tamarisk, Wind Tide). What started as a spare, spikey instrumental duo turned gradually into something more mountainous and expansive, sometimes a glacier, other times a distant cloud.
Big Hiatus is a hazy-but-sharp psych journey between nothing and nowhere. A duo with spiritual brother and absolute hero of underground outsider music David Drucker (Painted Faces, Bad Trips).
Esther Chlorine is an industrial / murky dark ambient duo with Bay Area legend and major homie Greg Garbage (Black Thread, Vibrating Garbage, Birds You Once Knew, Turmeric Magnitudes, Cascading Fragments, Unless, Rose Buried in Sand,Von Himmel, Spitting Falcons, Wires & Relays, et. al.).
It Breaks was a high-speed acoustic harsh noise trio with creative powerhouse David Grollman (aka Steve) and unflinching mondo shredder Lucio Menegon.
Rough Weather was an electroacoustic / free improv duo with computer music standard-bearer and rad dude Erik Schoster (He Can Jog). A bit of a Jetsons-Meet-the-Flinstones affair in terms of instruments, the project juxtaposed Schoster's live computer music with my rocks-and-sticks approach to prepared guitar and amplified objects.