You have no idea how excited I was to learn that this word existed! It basically means "A Love of the moon", which would make me a Selenophile "(n) a person who loves the moon".
How freakin cool is that!!?
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| Photo by: Johanna Grace / Edited by: Gela Ghaderi |
In my desert culture, the Moon is used as a symbol of beauty many times, and as you may ha
ve heard in many of my songs, I use the moon quite often in my writing.
The cool thing is, I learned about this word, just as I had finished writing a new song called "Sahara Moon", of course. So this new exciting discovery lead me down a moonlight rabbit hole, and now I'm working on a 5 song EP of love songs that are moon themed.
Needless to say the word "Selenophilia" makes it into the lyrics of one of the songs.
I am super excited about it, I've always wanted to create an intimate, singer/songwriter style album. So after the full production experience I had with "Novella" (which you can listen to in the music page), I'm looking forward to doing something much much simpler. I have to admit, the atmosphere of the album was hugely inspired by Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" album, its so beautiful in its simplicity, and that's what I'm planning to re-create.
Another exciting thing about this EP is that I will be releasing my first ever original song in Arabic. I tell you, writing in Arabic is a different beast then writing in English. Especially with my astro-imagery heavy style of songwriting. But its sounding good so far, I need to write one more moon tune and I'll have my 5 songs. I can't wait.
I'll write back soon.
Much Love
Mosno.