Nahja Mora

“Unpredictable” is how Josef Saint from Nahja Mora, describes his creative process when writing new music.  With no hard and fast rule Saint suggests that his music is conceived by experimentation and just sitting down and writing.  

Baltimore based band Nahja Mora finds inspiration in the things that people do to one another.  They like to explore the ways in which people communicate what they have done to others and delve into their reasoning for such acts towards another.  Language is a core conceptual obligation for the band and Saint acknowledges that “there is a War of Language all around us in all things”. 

Saint describes himself as having created music since he was born and in fact enhanced his understanding of music in college by choosing subjects that supported his musical wants.  His wide and varied understanding of music and the arts has lent itself to Nahja Mora resulting in the bands output being a more multi-media experience.  

Although he doesn’t believe that his educational background has been tantamount to the creation of his musical voice he does acknowledge the importance of his lifelong habit of keeping journals.  Saint’s journals contain music on staves, illustrations, poetry and rants.  He uses his journals for some ideas but his preferred method is just a conscious stream of his feelings put on tape.  

Saint is also the force behind the creation of artwork and the aesthetic of Nahja Mora.  The only exception to this is the band’s album Trees See More which has a painting by Hemlock Wargrave on the CD face and an illustration on the cover done by S. Stadelmyer.

Nahja Mora’s live performances are an opportunity for the band to give the audience a cathartic experience, provide a distraction or grant them a joyful interlude.  The feedback and energy that the audience provides to a band is “real” according to Saint.  The more engaging the audience the more the band wants to interact, a feeling that Nahja Mora describes as addictive.

With a serious interest in saving the world from itself Nahja Mora are looking forward to touring globally in places like Australia, Japan, North America, Europe and Central and South America.  Saint describes Nahja Mora’s music as not stagnant but the honest “soundtrack for a splintered consciousness” and as such suggests that a newcomer to their music should approach it with that in mind.  

Links : 

Website : http://www.nahjamora.com/     

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/nahjamora/

Bandcamp : https://nahjamora.bandcamp.com/music/ 

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/nahjamora/