Mai 麦 makes beautiful wide-screen music from electronic and acoustic instruments. Arcadia ² was introduced in the summer of 2019 with a video for "Motorway", transforming a road trip into psychedelic abstraction. The full release is now available on Bandcamp, exactly one year since the companion album Arcadia ¹.

Musician and producer Steve McCourt is originally from Ireland, but for some years has been based in China. This music was inspired by his encounters with the hyper-urban spaces of Shanghai. Here, loudspeakers play birdsong to make parks feel more "natural" while virtual reality displays are ubiquitous in the shopping malls.

Arcadia is in part a romantic journey to re-encounter nature, in part a celebration of our technology. Though a narrative is sketched through the song titles, the details are left to your imagination.