Moby shares video for ‘where is your pride?’ ft. Benjamin Zephaniah
MOBY SHARES ‘where is your pride?’ VIDEO
A HOMAGE TO THE LATE BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH
WHO COLLABORATED ON THE TRACK
TAKEN FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM ALWAYS CENTERED AT NIGHT
RELEASED ON 14TH JUNE
“Just as we have tried to end sexism and racism, we must try to end speciesism. A vegan lifestyle is the ultimate protest against animal exploitation.”
– Benjamin Zephaniah
“As a vegan activist, and as a wise and compassionate man, Benjamin inspired me for many years. I hope that ‘where is your pride’ honours his legacy and also draws people’s attention to his life, work, and principles.” – moby
Today Moby shares the video for current single ‘where is your pride?’, a collaboration with the late Benjamin Zephaniah. The video has been approved by Zephaniah’s family and is a celebration of his life’s work. The propulsive, break-beat driven track is spoken word with a powerful message delivered in the dub poet’s characteristically warm burr. “Where is your love? / Where is your faith? / Where is your hope? / Where is your place? / Where is your pride?” The track is taken from Moby’s 22nd studio album ‘always centered at night’, released on 14th June.
Even by Moby’s standards, ‘always centered at night’ is a bit special. The album features 13 collaborations in all, from names you might recognise to others you undoubtedly will come to recognise.
Wonderful voices on ‘always centered at night’, include Sudanese, Netherlands-based chanteuse Gaidaa, London-based, Burundian royal refugee J.P. Bimeni, and Kingston-raised, London-based Aynzli Jones. These are often personal songs, and the personal is the political, as is the border-defying nature of the work. Moreover, they’re crepuscular, conceived at twilight, with many of the styles of the last 30 years in electronic music coming to the fore, such as the trip-hoppy ‘we’re going wrong’ featuring Brie O’Banion, the broken beat, almost drum ‘n’ bass influenced ‘medusa’ (with the aforementioned Aynzli Jones), or the Latin house of ‘feelings come undone’ with Raquel Rodriguez.
In his pursuit of new sounds, Moby has become something of a collector of voices. He’s a connoisseur of the timbre and texture of human vocal chords, whether sampling artists like Bessie Jones, Vera Hall or Boy Blue on Play, or working with superstars like David Bowie.
always centered at night – the album – is the continuation of the project of the same name that started in 2022. So far, each release has provided its own magic, such as lead single dark days, which was released last month and was recorded with acclaimed soul-jazz singer-songwriter Lady Blackbird. It’s a defiant, rhythmic work propelled by her alluring, deep vocals and earnest soul. Since its inception collaborations with Gaidaa (transit), José James (ache for), Akemi Fox (fall back), serpentwithfeet (on air) and Aynzli Jones (medusa), have seen it amass collective streams of over 15m across platforms. All 13 collaborations are collected together here for the first time.
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‘always centered at night’ tracklist:
on air ft. serpentwithfeet
dark days ft. Lady Blackbird
where is your pride? ft. Benjamin Zephaniah
transit ft. Gaidaa
wild flame ft. Danaé Wellington
precious mind ft. India Carney
should sleep ft. J.P Bimeni
feelings come undone ft. Raquel Rodriguez
medusa ft. Aynzli Jones
we’re going wrong ft. Brie O’Banion
fall back ft. Akemi Fox
sweet moon ft. Choklate
ache for ft. José James
Moby will embark on his first tour in over a decade later this year across Europe/UK in celebration of Play and has just added Manchester’s O2 Apollo on the 18th September. For this show, access to Preferred Tickets is available to Mastercard cardholders in the UK on Friday 17th May at 10am (Local). Visit www.priceless.com/music to find out more.
The album, which featured classics “Porcelain,” “Natural Blues” and “Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?”, sold over 12 million copies worldwide, winning numerous awards and becoming the biggest-selling electronic album of all time. 100% of his tour profits will go to European animal rights organizations.
September 18 – Manchester, England / O2 Apollo – tickets
September 19 – London, England / The O2 – tickets
September 21 – Antwerp, Belgium / Sportpaleis – SOLD OUT
September 22 – Berlin, Germany / Velodrom – SOLD OUT
September 23 – Düsseldorf, Germany / Mitsubishi Electric Hall – tickets
September 24 – Paris, France / Le Zenith – SOLD OUT
September 25 – Lausanne, Switzerland – tickets
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ABOUT MOBY
Moby is a multi-platinum-selling, multi-award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, author, and animal rights activist. He has been a vegan and vegan activist for 35 years. “ANIMAL RIGHTS” tattoos cover his arms, while his neck carries the unequivocal “VEGAN FOR LIFE” in bold lettering. Having been sober since 2008, Moby has ploughed his energies and his own cash into protecting and liberating animals, becoming a pioneer in the field of animal advocacy and drawing attention to issues that weren’t in the conversation back in the 1990s. As well as donating proceeds from albums and business endeavours to nonprofits such as Animal Equality, Mercy for Animals, and The Humane League, he also made an absorbing documentary Punk Rock Vegan Movie. Moby’s directorial debut, the documentary premiered at 2023’s Slamdance and was subsequently released online for free, features a star-studded cast of alternative musical legends who reject the idea of animals as commodity, including Dave Navarro, Captain Sensible, Rob Zombie and Steve Ignorant.