By Kieran Hadfield
With her new album April / 月音 due for release 9th October via Bella Union, Emmy The Great has shared another standout track, “A Window / O’Keeffe”, from the LP.
Speaking about the track, Emmy says: “A Window/ O’Keeffe was written about my last summer living in Brooklyn. I’d just travelled to China for the first time, and I would only wear ‘lucky’ colours - royal yellow, dusty orange, or the red that scares away ghosts.”
“When I finished the song in Hong Kong that October, the colours of an O’Keeffe exhibit I’d been to see at the Brooklyn museum had seeped into my memories of that time. In many ways, this song is about colour, though it’s also about the friendship between women, something I leaned on as I moved into the next phase of my life.”
Click HERE to listen.
Since her third album was released in 2016, Emma-Lee Moss has worked as a critically-acclaimed composer for radio, TV, film and stage. Her credits include original songs for Starlee Kine’s groundbreaking US podcast ‘Mystery Show’; Sara Pascoe’s ‘Out of Her Mind’ for BBC2; Mia Lidofsky’s ‘Strangers’, which featured Girls’ Jemima Kirke as a singer-songwriter called ‘Emmy’. She also wrote music and libretto for Sara Pascoe’s stage adaptation of ‘Pride & Prejudice’ at the Nottingham Playhouse, and is working on HEEL, a new musical about female wrestling with the playwright Isley Lynn.
Tracklist:
1. Mid-Autumn / 月音
2. Writer
3. Dandelions / Liminal
4. Chang-E
5. A Window / O’Keeffe
6. Okinawa / Ubud
7. Your Hallucinations
8. Mary
9. Hollywood Road / April
10. Heart Sutra