Borealia - Spaceship Earth (A Thought Experiment)

Written as an experiment to see how short he could make a song without losing his compositional characteristics, Travis attacks this song with a heaviness unseen in most of his body of work. This is a piece better heard through headphones, due to the shifting guitars panning left and right at all times. Travis has compared the track to both Meshuggah and King Crimson. Read more on Last.fm.

Borealia is the solo project of Fishing For Pigeons guitarist Travis Lausch. It combines the atmospherics of bands like Rush and Devin Townsend with the compositional approach of Steve Vai and Frank Zappa, and adds the heaviness of Meshuggah at times. Though most of the tracks were recorded in 2006 and 2007, Travis finally chose January 2010 to release the Home EP for free via Last.FM and Facebook, among other sources. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.