Liela Moss has announced the release of her debut solo album, My Name Is Safe in Your Mouth, out on 9th November via Bella Union.
“The act of making this record has felt truly exotic for me by way of its minimalism,” says Liela Moss of her debut solo album. “I was in my own modest studio, surrounded by deep rural Somerset, and building the album bit by bit over a year with just my producer and partner Toby Butler – with whom I co-wrote all the music. We worked to our own schedule and across all seasons. Staring out of the window singing, I would watch the changing natural phenomena around me and sing to the forms outside. My window-view outside was like an umbilical cord; I was receiving little messages from the nature beyond and the songs were growing inside the studio, transmitting back.”
“I teased melody out from an abstract, day-dreaming space until I can honestly say I felt that I was attempting to sing Mother Nature into existence – making music as a devotional act at times. I enjoyed the simple pleasure of turning the sounds over and over in my mouth and nurturing them all until I felt some new life, some electricity.”
Moss has also shared a video for lead track “Wild As Fire“, directed by Ren Rox. Watch/listen to it below:
My Name Is Safe in Your Mouth artwork & tracklist:
1. Memories And Faces
2. Subequal
3. Into The Flesh
4. Above You, Around You
5. Wild As Fire
6. Manipura
7. New Leaves
8. Salutation
9. Moon
10. Hidden Sea
Moss has announced three intimate UK headline shows to follow the release, the dates of which are below:
Wednesday 12th December – LONDON – The Lexington
Thursday 13th December – MANCHESTER – Gulliver’s
Friday 14th December – BRIGHTON – Unitarian Church