New York musician Emile Mosseri has teamed up with Julianna Barwick for two new holiday tracks, ‘Snowpool’ and ‘Home Alone’. Take a listen below.
In a statement, Mosseri explained:
I met Julianna a few years back through our friend Mary Lattimore. We got together and started hanging and jamming and recording music. We’ve done a few improvisational shows at Zebulon together here in LA and jammed a bunch at my studio. “Snowpool” was this beautiful melody that Julianna started singing that I was drawn to, and I wrote chords underneath it and arranging it for a choir. We performed it two years ago with a 32-piece choir at a holiday show here in LA. We recently re-recorded it and wanted to release it for the holidays. It’s named after the translation of Julianna’s friend Jónsi’s niece’s name Snjolaug (Icelandic for snowpool). Julianna said that the song reminded her of snow falling in a pool at night. The name and the song both feel very festive, and we wanted to create something in the tradition of more melancholic christmas music, i.e Vince Guaraldi, Lennon’s “Happy Christmas,” and some of those classic heartbreaking hymnals.
Mosseri’s next LP, Trying to Be Born, is set to arrive on February 21. Barwick’s most recent album, Healing Is a Miracle, came out in 2020.