Songwriter and Academy Awards and Grammy nominated composer Emile Mosseri is thrilled to release his debut album, Heaven Hunters, today via his imprint Greedy Heart Records. Written, sung, and arranged by Mosseri, Heaven Hunters sees him looking inwards, using his distinctive sound and gift for musical storytelling for his most personal work. Produced by Bobby Krlic (aka The Haxan Cloak), Heaven Hunters explores the weight of choosing one path in life, putting to death every other possible future, and finding comfort in redefining happiness.
One of the album’s standout tracks, “Rosewater,” is also being highlighted today. About the track, Mosseri says, “This one was inspired by / lifted from one of my favorite films, Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast. There’s a line where the main character Gal Dove tells his wife Deedee over the phone ‘I love you like a rose loves rainwater, like a leopard loves his partner in the jungle, I know you love me cause I feel strong.’”
Continues Mosseri, “That movie has got so many layers. It’s a wild ride, but underneath it all, it’s this great love story. I wanted to bite those lines and flesh out a love song for my wife Allie, who I grew up. We’ve been together off and on for over 20 years, and I wanted to write a song about how strong our love is. I like the idea of having a famous love, the way old people talk about a couple that’s not around anymore, or the way people talk about old Hollywood couples whose relationships survived decades. It felt cinematic to end the record with the line ‘you win forever,’ and to end the record with a song about a swollen whale of a love.”
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As a singer, songwriter, and composer, Emile Mosseri transforms the human experience into song. Musical storytelling is his lifeblood — a talent he has shared with songwriters and directors that now takes centerstage on his debut album, Heaven Hunters. Mosseri spent his teens and twenties playing in bands in New York City before moving to Los Angeles to work as a composer. Mosseri has provided emotionally melodic film scores to support the personal stories of Joe Talbot, Miranda July, Lee Isaac Chung, Jonah Hill and more, receiving several accolades including a Best Original Score nomination 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, Mary Lattimore, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Dave Longstreth, Julianna Barwick, Terence Nance, Hand Habits, and others.
Driven by Mosseri’s poignant lyrics and intimate singing, Heaven Hunters is a celebration of the highs and lows that create that equilibrium, built around songs of longing, love, loss, familial struggle, and domestic bliss. It is a vulnerable, heartfelt album that is both expansive and cinematic in its dynamic scope and deeply stripped down and exposed in its emotional core, ready to be experienced as intimately as possible. It is the album he imagined in the formative years of his creative journey and one that came to life through his experiences working directly with auteurs that fearlessly built exterior worlds from their interior experiences.
