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His music filled me with the urge to connect with the world,Inch Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith says of Emile Mosseri. She first heard his work while watching the 2019 film The Last Black Man In San Francisco; just minutes in, she paused it to look up who did the score and wrote to him immediately. InchI love Emile's ability to create melodies that feel magically scenic and familiar like they are reminding you of the innocence of loving life.Inch Those talents saw recognition in 2020 with an Oscar nomination for Mosseri's original score to the film Minari. He was already a fan of Smith's and became increasingly intrigued by her impressionistic process as they started to talk. InchThe music feels so spiritual and alive and made from the earth,Inch Mosseri says. InchI think of her as the great conductor, summoning musical poetry from her orchestra of machines.Inch I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon, their two-part collaborative album, introduces an uncanny fusion of their sonics. Constructed using synthesizer, piano, electronics, and voice, this soft-focus dream world is rich, evocative, and fleeting. It finds two composers tuning their respective styles inward as an ode to mutual inspiration, a celebration of the human spirit and it's will to surrender to the currents of life. Early into their correspondence, Smith and Mosseri realized they were neighbors in Los Angeles and met up for a few hikes. Their conversations led to a musical exchange over email. The exercise became a sketch, the start of their first song together, InchLog In Your Fire,Inch with Mosseri finding flourishes in Smith's cathartic synth lines to intonate and harmonize alongside. Lyrically, it's a beautiful, open-ended sentiment. InchBeing a log in someone's fire, to me, means letting go, and surrendering to that feeling,Inch says Mosseri. From there, the pair composed a series of musical foundations,
