This self-titled record will be released in the UK and Europe by The Lights Label[2] Mease was born in Houston, Texas, where he began playing guitar at age 10.

While at the New School, Mease shifted his focus away from improvised music towards singing and writing songs.

[citation needed] In 2008, Mease travelled to Denton, Texas, to begin recording a group of songs that he would later finish at home in Brooklyn.

During the show, Moran and other HSPVA alums Robert Glasper, Jamire Williams and Alan Hampton joined Mease to play a short set of his original songs.

Lapland's self-titled full-length record will be released by the Lights Label on March 3, 2014, in Europe and the UK.