02/04/2016                                                                            
                                    
                                                                            
                                            Our very first post starts with Jesse Somfay as Borealis! We will post music we love that has a story behind it, because we don't hear enough about the creative process and artists' sources of inspiration. The song here is not new, but after years, it's still incredibly powerful and emotional. 
Here is a story behind it:
“Imago VX” was the final piece created during the Kallionyma recording sessions in the spring of 2014. It was also the most frustrating of them all to work with. I was having a lot of trouble with the main melody during the chorus. I felt it needed to reach a certain height to go above and beyond the atmosphere of the song’s main body, but for a few hours, it just was not happening. On my final evening working on the piece, my frustration peaked briefly - and then went absolutely silent inside of me. The silence was pregnant rather than empty.
In the way that a wind on a summer night suddenly rustles through a forest canopy, or brushes the rolling crests of wheat fields with a certain adroitness, some undefined force became a part of me within those moments. It gave me the intuition to figure out what needed to be done with the chorus melody, and within a few short minutes, the song had attained the heights I envisioned for it. 
It was a moment of intense relief and release, like a discharging capacitor. But it was not solely because the piece had been completed. Through working on Imago, I experienced a great freeing of something from within, and I felt tears fall down my face as I smiled vibrantly. Something calling to be let go had come untethered and fallen away, lightening a load in me. These moments are never planned; they simply arrive. Just like a dancer reaches the moment of apogee when dance and dancer merge as one - and something else takes over. These moments only come to you when you’re already in motion.”
Jesse Somfay (Canada)                                        
                                    
                                                                        
                                        "Imago VX" is the first single off of Kallionyma, the new EP from Borealis. Buy the EP: http://bit.ly/SubLyJ Official Music Video: http://bit.ly/1pBlmzY  https://www.facebook.com/