Candace Love is the musical persona that emerged from poet Patty Mooney’s long-held desire to set her poems to music. Mooney has been writing poetry since the age of fifteen, producing thousands of poems drawn from an adventurous life shaped by travel, love, risk, and observation. For decades, she imagined her words carried by melody, yet meaningful musical collaborations proved rare.
With the advent of artificial intelligence as a creative tool, a new kind of partnership became possible. Candace Love arose not as a replacement for human expression, but as a responsive musical counterpart, capable of shaping sound around language with speed, nuance, and openness. The result is an ongoing body of work in which poetry leads and music follows, attentive to rhythm, mood, and meaning.
Candace Love exists as a collaborator, a voice, and a framework for transforming lived experience into song.
Search for Meaning (July 2024) is the first album by Patty Mooney in collaboration with Candace Love, blending intimate poetry with understated melodies to explore love, identity, and inner life.
Sea Foam draws from Patty Mooney’s true-life travels through Italy and Greece in the 1980s, blending poetic narrative and luminous soundscapes to evoke youth, movement, memory, and discovery across water and time.
MTB is inspired by decades of mountain biking, competition, and trail riding, translating Patty Mooney’s lived experience as a lifelong rider into music that captures both the intensity of motion and the quiet focus of the ride.
Tea for Sara, inspired by the poetry of Sara Teasdale, is a contemplative album shaped by Patty Mooney’s interpretations and Candace Love’s understated compositions, exploring longing, intimacy, and the inner emotional life of the poems.
Heart of the Brave honors courage, conscience, and compassion, weaving songs about service, freedom, and moral strength into a reflective portrait of what it means to stand firm with heart and humanity.
Come With Me is a collection of true-life love and travel songs that trace the shared journey of two souls moving through landscapes, risks, and devotion, carried by trust, curiosity, and the promise of going together.
Storyteller gathers true-life songs drawn from lived experience, memory, and observation, unfolding as intimate narratives where personal history becomes music and moments are preserved through voice and lyric.
Big White Dingo tells the true story of a young couple hitchhiking through Australia in 1990, capturing freedom, risk, and discovery on the open road, shaped by chance encounters, movement, and love.
Animal Cracker Gumbo is a playful collection of animal-inspired songs that blend imagination, humor, and gentle wisdom, inviting listeners into a lively world where creatures, curiosity, and storytelling collide.
First Surf is a collection of songs inspired by the Pacific Ocean and a young woman’s coming of age, capturing first loves, salt air, and the formative moments shaped by water, motion, and desire.
North American Journey soundtrack for a nine-month, 25,000-mile road trip across the United States, Canada, and Alaska, transforming true-life travel, discovery, and shared adventure into songs shaped by motion, landscape, and memory.
North American Journey Too (Soundtrack) continues the musical chronicle of the road, expanding the journey with new reflections on distance, return, and time, where memory deepens and the landscapes traveled reveal fresh meaning.
Happy Holly-Daze is a festive album that reimagines the holiday season with warmth, wit, and wonder, blending playful spirit and heartfelt reflection into songs that celebrate joy, memory, and togetherness.
Chère Mystère, to be released in 2026, is a romantic and enigmatic album that drifts between memory and imagination, exploring love, longing, and the poetry of what remains just out of reach.
Bodies of Water, to be released in 2026, explores the emotional and physical landscapes shaped by rivers, oceans, and rain, weaving songs of movement, reflection, and connection across inner and outer worlds.
Ongoing Work
Most music films produced by New and Unique Videos® are scored by Candace Love, the musical persona of Patty Mooney. Across albums and films, this collaboration continues to evolve as an exploration of how poetry, technology, and lived experience can meet without hierarchy.
Candace Love is not a genre, a novelty, or a persona detached from authorship. It is a method of listening and responding, where language remains at the center and music serves its meaning.
