Emile Mosseri’s ties to the movie business made for some cinematic moments on his 2023 debut, Heaven Hunters. With the upcoming Tryin To Be Born (Grasping Coronary heart), he turns the lens inward, with assist from producer Bobby Krlic (the Haxan Cloak), guitarist Meg Duffy (Kevin Morby, Fragrance Genius), multi-instrumentalist Dougie Stu and drummer Kosta Galanopolous. “I May Be Your Fingers” is the most recent single from the LP, which is on the market February 28.
“It’s a love music about comradery and brotherhood with type of a ‘Bonnie And Clyde’ vibe to it,” says Mosseri.
A local New Yorker who studied movie scoring at Berklee Faculty of Music, Mosseri was a founding member of indie-rock foursome the Dig. Relocating to Los Angeles, he shifted his focus to composition—a transfer that in the end paid off. In 2019, he scored Joe Talbot’s function debut, The Final Black Man In San Francisco, which earned his pal the best-director prize on the Sundance Movie Competition. Two years later, Mosseri nabbed an Oscar nomination for his scoring of Minari, a critically acclaimed drama directed by Lee Isaac Chung. The roles have continued to return for Mosseri—and he and Talbot stay shut. “I May Be Your Fingers” is a working example.
“I wrote it with Joe,” says Mosseri. “He’s my finest bud and favourite filmmaker, and he serves as a type of inventive director for my solo information with my album covers and movies. I rating his movies, however this was the primary time we wrote lyrics collectively. We wrote it at his place in a single evening, and we hammered out remaining touches over the cellphone and with textual content and voice memos. Generally writing lyrics could be agony, however this one got here simply. Pure pleasure.”
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—Hobart Rowland
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