Interviews: Nahja Mora

This is a new interview with the Industrial/Punk band Nahja Mora from the USA. Check out the interview and follow the artist on his FACEBOOK PAGE.

1. Where did you get the idea for the band name, you plan it or came out just like that?

We planned it. It is rife with meaning as are all things that are created. Cobras and knives and seas and sea-faring psychopomps; nightmares and nausea and springtime and sacrifice. What is a name?

2.Why did you want to play this genre?

We did not choose this genre. We make the music that we make because it is honest for us to make this type of music. It is not a want. Genre is a restriction and is not something we think about. A school of thought which leads some of our experimentation is expressionism through a dated artistic movement it remains vigorous to express emotional and mental maelstroms or sickness beyond veneers.

3. Did you know each other before the band was formed?

Yes. Jeff and Josef since Highschool; Jenny and Josef from the music scene. We are all musicians and each has played in many groups. Does anyone really know anyone or is language prescribed with qualities—This band is a group and it flutters and functions.

4. Each band member favourite band?

We don’t have favorites.

5. Who or what inspires you to write songs?

Our lives; social and political matters. It’s hard to describe a universal singular thing that inspires one to write songs. We are motivated by playing and intention-- transmission of feeling. We are ruled by language as all is language, even nature (can’t you understand?). Communication is key and aural matters mutter full environments for listeners looking for fretting experiences.

6. Where was your last gig?

Baltimore Soundstage supporting Front 242 on their Black to Square One Tour.

7. Where would you like to act?

We are all actors acting all of the time when we act with intent we become performers. We would perform any which-where where there is payment made to reflect the actual worth and there is an interest, or opposition, to our meaning. We are here to make messages sent to receptive receivers. We are the nightmare of the psychopomp. We bring revelation; catharsis; warning; remark.

8. Whom would you like to feature with?

Sleigh Bells. Lena Katina. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The London Philharmonic Orchestra. Street Sects. Daveed Diggs. Bestial Mouths. little-scale. Rose McDowall. Monte Cazazza. Chris & Cosey. Laibach. Bjork. Ice T. JG Thirlwell. Trent Reznor. Waking Dream NYC. Alice Cooper.

9. Whom not?

Dumb WS shit, Dumb Nationalist shit, Dumb shit. Also the shit collective™

10. Have any of you ever suffered from stage fright? Any tip for beginners on how to beat that?

A tactic of one of ours is to turn their back to the crowd and that comes from experience throughout music while another of ours is simply to prescribe to the idea of keep going and there is a mission of intention that cannot be undermined even by you yourself and another of ours is to prepare the energy of the group through embraces and breathing techniques or even closing one's eyes while facing the audience if measures do not prepare yet enough.

11. What bands have inspired you the most?

COIL; Arnold Schoenberg; Nine Inch Nails; Mentallo & The Fixer; The Dillinger Escape Plan

12. What's the weirdest thing a fan has ever asked you for?

One of our souls. We will not speak about if payment was made or what sort of payment may have been offered or received.

13. What do you think of your fans?

That they have excellent musical taste and we wish them peace and that they know that in their circles, whatever they may be, that when their oversight sleeps they are king. And when you are a king then you are free.

14. What do you think of our site?

Awesomely inclusive. Impressive in its content and menu system.

15. Something to add?

We have to take care of one another. and things are always darker than you think they are.