After having recently released the beautifully sparse track ““Wasting Your Love, singer, songwriter, and composer, Emile Mosseri has just released the swoony love song “Once In A While,” along with an accompanying live performance of the song, recorded recently at EastWest’s famed Studio Two. Backed by a band composed of Meg Duffy (Hand Habits), Dougie Stu, and Kosta Galanopolous, 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.

Mosseri said of the single: “I’ve always loved songs where the message is in the gaps. 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.”

Mosseri spent his teens and twenties playing in bands in New York City before moving to Los Angeles to work as a composer, a city in which he has formed some of his deepest collaborative relationships. Mosseri has provided emotionally melodic film scores to support the personal stories of Joe Talbot, Miranda July, Lee Isaac Chung, and more, receiving several accolades, including a Best Original Scorenomination at the Academy Awards for Chung’s Minari (2020) in 2021. At the same time, he has developed lasting relationships with fellow songwriters both in the studio and on stage, working with Angel Olsen, Bobby Krlic, Sam Gendel, Mary Lattimore, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Dave Longstreth, and others.

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.