WATCH: Emile Mosseri Releases New Single “Once In A While”

Watch the live performance of new song below

August 20, 2024August 20, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Bob Dylan, Chet Baker, Emile Mosseri, Greedy Heart Records, Neil Young, Once in a While, Sparklehorse

Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and film composer Emile Mosseri is probably best known for his Oscar-nominated score to Lee Isaac Chung’s acclaimed 2020 familial drama Minari.

But beyond his work in film, the New York native is building up a stellar repertoire of songs of his own accord. And after having recently released the beautifully sparse track ““Wasting Your Love,” Mosseri returns with an electrifying new love song entitled “Once in a While.” It’s a swoony tune that falls somewhere between electric Neil Young and Sparklehorse, a vibe further enhanced by its accompanying live performance, which was recordes very recently at EastWest’s famed Studio Two with a crack band featuring Meg Duffy (Hand Habits), Dougie Stu and Kosta Galanopolous.

“I’ve always loved songs where the message is in the gaps,” Mosseri explains of “Once in a While,” the aforementioned clip of which you can check out below. “Songs where the real sentiment is in the negative space that’s alluded to but never said. Like Dylan’s ‘Most of the Time’ or Chet Baker’s ‘I Get Along Without You Very Well’ I wanted to write a love song in that tradition about falling short as a partner by singing about how I show up.”

Cover Art for “Once in a While” (Image: Greedy Heart Records)

In 2023, Mosseri released Heaven Hunters, his debut album that is both expansive and cinematic in its dynamic scope and deeply stripped down and exposed in its emotional core. Much of that album is ready to be experienced as intimately as possible and it is from that aesthetic prompt—raw, unfiltered songwriting—which Mosseri has been exploring musically as of late.

Mosseri retreated to Altamira Sound in the fall of 2023 with frequent collaborator, composer, and producer Bobby Krlic (Midsommar, The Haxan Cloak) to lay the groundwork for what will come next.

Get a taste below.