The Morakestra | Witness To Connection

David and Will Mora

Will and David Mora, were born and raised in El Paso, Texas. While growing up the twins were subjected to nothing but ear splitting opera by their mother, while their father was a head banger and he, in turn, pumped up the volume even more for the two. Little did they know, but the twins’ thought processes were damaged beyond repair by this assault of music. The Mora twins spoke their “own” peculiar language the first ten years of their life. They speak in short clipped fragments, finishing each others sentences. The guitars didn’t come with an instruction book, but the two began to not so slowly figure things out for themselves, beginning with creating and inventing their own style of tuning, and for the next ten years the two sat across from each other in their bedroom diabolically shredding. After figuring the ways of the guitar, they began to compose their own songs “duel style”. Sitting across from the other, trying their best to outdo the other with speed, precision, and sick, twisted harmony,—their telepathy enabling them to compose “on the fly”, nothing written or recorded, all stored in the special storage repositories of their minds. In their early twenties, the Mora’s decided to take the music from the bedroom and expose it to the world. The Mora’s traveled to Austin to record at Willie Nelsons personal studio, Pedernales. The Morakestra was born.