B i o g r a p h y

Sophie Moleta was born in New Zealand but spent a good part of her childhood in Australia. Her theatrical and dramatic style - essential for any major artistic work - was learnt from her parents. Her father was an academic specialist in medieval and Renaissance Italy and her mother was an accomplished musician and accompanist to Dietrich Fischer-Diskau. At home, religion and classical music were very important. She learnt to play the piano when she was four years old. She composed odes to Jesus Christ when she was ten. But at fourteen, she got her first radio - and with it, the world. She discovered the Sex Pistols and David Bowie (she later became a groupie of his). Not long after that, she sang in a punk group, The Brautigans, in homage to the writer. In a spirit of adventure, she crossed the Australian bush and lived for a year in India. She went to France where she discovered Radio-France (!) and its classical concerts and trained as a sound engineer. But after the death of her mother, Sophie Moleta returned to New Zealand and began to write songs. These saw the light of day on her first recording, Slow Scape, and in Trust, an intimate diary covering the period from 1992 to 1998. It was with this self-produced record and her Roland RX-7 synth that -- thanks to the girls of the group Pooka - she returned to France at the invitation of the organisers of the festival " Les femmes s'en mêlent " to give some concerts. It was at these concerts that she enthralled audiences which included Bernard Lenoir and Hector Zazou. Bernard Lenoir was apparently heard to say he'd been begged by fellow concertgoers to invite her to do one of his Black Sessions.... In August 1999, Sophie Moleta left for England to record in Peter Gabriel's Real World studios under the aegis of Hector Zazou -- whom she ended up exhausting by the manner in which she threw herself into her songs as though they were her last task on earth. In March 2000, Dive came out at last on Le Village Vert. Paradoxically it revealed a less anxious Moleta, a woman open to the world and ready for everything. A tour through Europe followed Dive's release. Sophie Moleta was then living in Brighton, where she was working in parallel with the trance group Human Movement. The song Love has come again ended up on a lot of British compilations of electronic music. At the beginning of 2001, Sophie Moleta returned to Paris to try to free herself from her recording contract. She took advantage of her time there to record a dozen demos. As things stand, Sophie Moleta is still under contract to her French label. Nevertheless, she went to live in Australia in the hope of signing with a label there. She's still working with the trance group Human Movement. But after an argument with Telescopic, the single Healing didn't make it to the British record shops. This situation led Sophie Moleta to publish an open letter on her own site setting out her side of the story (see the Thematics page). Sophie Moleta has shown no sign of slowing down in her composition and recording, as is shown by her discography which now boasts three albums and an EP ready for publication. The songs she puts on her website are very sparse -- and calmer, too. But just as deep, just as divine.



Dive
- 2000 -

Octave war
Stay Gold
Chapelle
10x2
Dive
Lewes
Apollinaire
Geneve
Fresh rain
Anicca
God and fire

Art for arts sake


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Octave war

I'm gonna turn your fear into power
I'm gonna turn your power into will
I'm gonna turn your will into power
You can use this power as your drill
If it hurts you in the morning scream a little louder
And I will come running under
And you'll be my mirror ahha

I'm gonna turn your fear into power
I'm gonna turn your power into will
I'm gonna turn your will into power
You can use this power you can use
If it hurts you in the morning scream a little louder
And I will come running under
And you'll be my mirror ahha

I'm gonna turn your fear into power
I'm gonna turn your power into will
I'm gonna turn your will into power
You can use this power as your drill
If it hurts you in the morning scream a little louder
And I will come running under
And you'll be my mirror ahha

If it hurts you in the morning scream a little louder
And I will come running under
And you'll be my mirror ahha...

If it hurts you in the morning scream a little louder
And I will come running under
And you'll be my mirror ahha

Stay Gold

I nearly handed my power over
I was caught in the net of repeated enclosure
Forgetting that I am my own master
Forgetting somehow in the power of thought

Shock protectors and graphic designers
And how many times does desire come to blind us ?
I'm bathing in gold just to remind us
I'm writing this song just to remain us that we are all queens of swords
That we are all queens

Stay gold queen and let it all flow
Stay proud queen let them know
Stay gold queen it's all here for you don't believe in those
Who think that they know what is best for you
It really suits you you don't doubt queen
Your reason has never been clearer queen
Fly like a bird, stay gold queen
You truly deserve to wear gold

Stay gold let it all flow
Stay proud let them know
Stay gold queen it's all here for you don't believe in those
Who think that they know
Wear gold
It really suits you don't doubt
Your reason has never been clearer queen
Fly like a bird, stay gold queen
You truly deserve to wear gold

It really suits you don't doubt
Your reason has never been clearer
Fly like a bird, stay gold
You truly deserve to wear gold

It really suits you don't doubt
Your reason has never been clearer
Fly like a bird, stay gold
You truly deserve to wear gold

Wear gold, wear gold, wear gold, wear gold, wear gold

It really suits you don't doubt
Your reason has never been clearer
Fly like a bird, stay gold
You truly deserve to wear gold
Ahha wear gold, hmm hmm wear gold, ahha wear gold, ahha wear gold

Chapelle

It's sunday morning and I have returned
I'm here on the edges with something I've learned
And I'm warmer and stronger and it's easier to smile
And the pain I was holdings not only inside
I'm back in this chapelle on its stone floor
And the lights seems less awesome
And I've visited Helene and washed all my clothes
And it's all getting clearer the simpler it goes
And I don't need as much as I did before

There's somebody waiting my bums getting cold
So I get off this stone floor and hear for the door
And there's no holy water but I'm not dry
And there's things on my sunday list I cannot find
But the oranges are sweet here and the coffee is strong
And these moments above ground they're enough to move on

And there's no holy water but I'm not dry
And there's things on my sunday list I cannot find
But the oranges are sweet here and the coffee is strong
And these moments above ground they're enough to move on



10x2

Kiss me sweetheart
Ten times two
Ten times two
Twenty kisses
All too few

Kiss me sweetheart
Ten times two
Ten times two
Twenty kisses
All too few

Still my lips will hungry be
Though you kiss me ten times three
Still my lips will hungry be
Though you kiss me ten times

Kiss me sweetheart
Ten times two
Ten times two
Twenty kisses
All too few

Still my lips will hungry be
So lets marry you and me
Still my lips will hungry be
Though you kiss me ten times

Kiss me sweetheart
Ten times two
Ten times two
Twenty kisses
All too few

Kiss me sweetheart
Ten times two
Ten times two
Twenty kisses
All too few

Still my lips will hungry be
So lets marry you and me
Still my lips will hungry be
Though you kiss me ten times

Kiss me sweetheart
Kiss me sweetheart
Kiss me sweetheart
Kiss me sweetheart
Kiss me sweetheart
Kiss me
Kiss me sweetheart
Kiss me
Kiss me sweetheart

Dive

And there is a sea behind the wall
It's like a swimming pool
And it's up on the sixth floor of this hotel
And I have come to find you
Tonight to ask you tonight
Do you want to dive ?
And I do not ask this lightly
Please do not take me lightly
I don't give a shit about the theory of love
Please do not intellectualize me

I wanna dive in
I wanna cut through
I wanna go there with you
I wanna see you
I wanna see me
I wanna dive in tonight

i wanna dive in
I wanna cut through
I wanna go there with you
I wanna see you
I wanna see me
I wanna dive in tonight

I wanna cut through
I wanna go there with you
I wanna see you
I wanna see me
I wanna dive in tonight

And I don't wanna take anything
And I don't want some time wasting cheap thrill experiment
And I know this may not last more than three hours we have before
We have to drive we have to leave this sea this city
This beautiful part of the world
But I lose absolutely all control
Every time I look at you every time

I wanna dive in
I wanna cut through
I wanna go there with you
I wanna see you
I wanna see me
I wanna dive in tonight

I wanna dive in
I wanna cut through
I wanna go there with you
I wanna see you
I wanna see me
I wanna dive in tonight

I wanna dive in
I wanna cut through
I wanna go there with you
I wanna see you
I wanna see me
I wanna dive in tonight

I wanna dive in
I wanna cut through
I wanna go there with you
I wanna see you
I wanna see me
I wanna dive in tonight

I wanna dive in
I wanna cut through
I wanna go there with you
I wanna see you
I wanna see me
I wanna dive in tonight
I wanna dive in
I wanna dive in

And there is a sea behind the wall
It's like a swimming pool
And it's up on the sixth floor of this hotel
And I have come to find you
Tonight to ask you tonight
Do you want to dive ?
Do you want to dive ?

Lewes

Hmm, Ok.
Up here on the hill
I can see everything
Woodsmoke in the air and the blackbirds are
Singing just a little too much time
Looking after someone else
Just a little too much pain from taking everything that he said
And it's hard sometimes to know
Which way and I know I have to let him know

Up here on the hill I can feel again
Just that breath of air to get my head back
Into gear and I know now that this is my
It's my lucky chance
Just to feel this energy it's rising up
And it's hard sometimes to know
Which way and I know I have to let him know

Up here on the hill
I'm just a visitor
I wish I could stay
But where all just
Visitors
And the green blade is rising up
Inside of me
And the spring flowers are here they're all on the hill beside me
And it's hard sometimes to know
Which way
And I know I have to let him go
Which way
And the green blade is rising up
Inside of me
And the spring flowers are here they're all on the hill beside me
And it's hard sometimes to know
Which way and I know I have to let him know
Which way

Apollinaire

The sky is as blue
And as black as ink
My eyes drown in it and sink
And I see far away cathedral
And I shall never forget this journey
When non of us said a word
And when I was a little child
My mother wrapped me in blue and white
Oh holy virgin
Do you love me still ?

I don't believe in heaven or in hell
I don't believe je ne crois pas
Her hair is gold it is so bright
And like a lasting flash of light
Or like the flames which slow parade
And laugh at me and go on laugh
There are so many things in here
I do not dare to tell you
I write to you beneath this tent while
Summer day becomes a shape of startling
Magnificent and flowers of the cannonade
They stud the pale blue firmament
Before existing fade
I'm leaving at eigh twenty eight
So raise the blind and see her dress
Her dress as black as nails

And flowers of the cannonade
They stud the pale blue firmament
Before existing fade
I'm leaving at eigh twenty eight
So raise the blind and see her dress
Her dress as black as nails

And flowers of the cannonade
They stud the pale blue firmament
Before existing fade
I'm leaving at eigh twenty eight
So raise the blind and see her dress
Her dress as black as nails

And flowers of the cannonade
They stud the pale blue firmament
Before existing fade
I'm leaving at eigh twenty eight
So raise the blind and see her dress
Her dress as black as nails

And flowers of the cannonade
They stud the pale blue firmament
Before existing fade
I'm leaving at eigh twenty eight
So raise the blind and see her dress
Her dress as black as nails

Geneve

"Take it" she said.
"I can feel you're cold
It's not normal
She said "take my warm"
And she does and she lets it in
And she takes it
It comes rushing in
And little by little all the pieces fall
Together to make her
Life a whole
And she sleeps
The air comes to kiss her skin
To relieve her of the depths she's in
And she wakes she bathes
She sees her skin
And she's proud of who
She really is
And if you feel tired and you wonder why
It's because you've got something
Buried inside
Let it let it go
Be who you are
Be free with who you are
And she's moving through this field of gold
Like a chat noir an eagle a polar bear
"Take it" she said 
"This precious thing it's yours to keep you're arriving"
And she does and she lets it in
And she takes it
It comes flooding in
And her blood becomes red again
And geneve is all it could have been
And kissing you
With that taste in my mouth

Fresh rain

You conceal yourself well dear
But not well enough but not enough
Cause I find that I'm wanting
A little more of you're stuff
And I felt it before dear
And that's why I came
And I'm feeling some reason
To clean up my act
And I'm not about to transfert
This reason
There is a lot of other factors
That have something to do
And until I am ready
I'll keep it
Until it is ready keep it
Keep it

Fresh rain dancing yeh X8

I'm a little scared
Of the force dear
The white light
The white noise
I'm a little scared of what could happen dear
If we decide
I'll conceal myself
Well dear just well enough
Until I find that you're wanting

Fresh rain dancing yeh X6
You conceal yourself well dear
But not well enough

Anicca

Two blood red plums
One for me one for you
A waxing moon
A frangipani and a white white rose
And anything can change
Anything at all
Anything can change
Anicca

And you can sit anywhere you like darling
You don't need so much shelter
And there's always the warm sun
And the street lights for writing
And anything can change
Anything anything at all
Anything can change
Anicca

And it's all the same
This flesh this flesh and these stars
And it seems a little crazy
We're full of these scars

And it's all the same
This flesh this flesh and these stars
And it seems a little crazy
We're full of these scars

When anything can change
Anything anything at all
Anything can change
Anicca, Anicca
And anything can change
Anything anything at all
Anything can change
Anicca

Anything can change
Anything anything at all
Anything can change
Anicca

Anything can change
Anything anything at all
Anything can change
Anicca

And these long walks in the evening
Discovering at all
And these long walks in the evening
Discovering at all

Where anything can happen
Anything, anything at all
Anything can change
Anicca

When anythin can change
Anything, anything at all
Anything can change
Anicca

Anythin can change
Anything, anything at all
Anything can happen
Anicca

God and fire

Write for the sky
Write for the heaven's curve
Let no leaded saxon black
Obfuscate your verse

Write for smell and wind
For the silver leaf
Let no ugly human face look
Or know or breathe

Write for God and fire
For a love of place
Let the void be rid of man
Frozen by a flame

( repeat again and again ... )


Art for arts sake
 
Each step can heal
Every little thing i feel
Is it wrong to have some ideals
About the ways to heal

And i need to go away now
Far from this situation
There's been a lot lot lot of damage done
Without deep communication

And until we learn to love ourselves
Nobody can do it for you
Until you learn to respect yourself
Nobody is gonna know how to treat you

Until you stop to project yourself
Nobody else can come in freely
Until you learn to lose yourself

Give up give up give up

'Cause its arts for arts sake
It's money
For a piece of
Prime beef steak
It's love for loves sake
It's respect for freedoms sake

It's arts for arts sake
Money for a prime beef steak
Love for loves sake
Respect for freedoms sake

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