Moby shares Sweet Moon ft. Choklate
MOBY SHARES “SWEET MOON” FT. CHOKLATE
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PLUS “SWEET MOON” JUNG REMIX
3RD STREET DJ MIX RELEASED 15TH AUGUST
TAKEN FROM NEW ALBUM ‘ALWAYS CENTERED AT NIGHT’ OUT NOW
UK/EU TOUR BEGINS IN SEPTEMBER IN MANCHESTER INCLUDING SOLD OUT DATES WITH SUPPORT FROM LADY BLACKBIRD
Acclaimed U.S electronic musician, producer and activist Moby shares sultry track “Sweet Moon” ft. Choklate with a self-directed video, plus Jung remix, with a 3rd street DJ Mix out 15th August, featuring new and unreleased remixes of music from the ‘always centered at night’ album, mixed together by Moby (tracklist below).
Moby will perform live across Europe/UK to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ‘Play’ this September with tickets on sale now.
Even by Moby’s standards, ‘always centered at night’ is a bit special. The album features 13 collaborations in all, from names you might recognize to others you undoubtedly will come to recognize. Lead single “dark days” was recorded with acclaimed soul-jazz singer-songwriter Lady Blackbird, a defiant, rhythmic work propelled by her alluring, deep vocals and earnest soul. Other collaborators include serpentwithfeet on the achingly beautiful “on air,” and Benjamin Zephaniah on the propulsive, break- beat driven “where is your pride?,” a spoken word with a powerful message delivered in the late dub poet’s characteristically warm Handsworth burr. “As a vegan activist, and as a wise and compassionate man, Benjamin inspired me for many years,” says Moby. “I hope that ‘where is your pride?’ honors his legacy and also draws people’s attention to his life, work, and principles.”
Other wonderful voices on ‘always centered at night’, include Sudanese, Netherlands-based chanteuse Gaidaa on “transit”, London based Burundian royal refugee J.P. Bimeni, and Kingston raised, London based Aynzli Jones.
Always centered at night–the album–is the continuation of the project of the same name that Moby announced in 2022. He saw this project as a similar service to the idiosyncratic New York record shops that he frequented in the late 1980s, where he’d hear something recondite and exciting and it would open up whole new worlds. always centered at night was his way of working with special writers and vocalists to make songs inspired by the spirit of musical discovery.
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, Ozzy Osborne and Britney Spears; “I’m always looking. Sometimes it’s about going on YouTube. Sometimes it’s Spotify. Other times, it’s just walking around Lower Manhattan going to karaoke places, where I’ve actually found a couple of singers. It’s this constant process of looking for voices, and getting excited and inspired when I find a wonderful voice.”
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.
Since its inception–that has also included collaborations with José James, “ache for,” and Akemi Fox “fall back” it has amassed collective streams of over 15M across platforms. All 13 collaborations are collected together here for the first time.
Moby will embark on his first tour in over a decade later this year across Europe/UK in celebration of Play, which featured classics “Porcelain,” “Natural Blues” and “Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?” and sold over 12 million copies worldwide, winning numerous awards and becoming the biggest-selling electronic album of all time. Tickets for the select dates, including a newly added show in Lausanne, Switzerland, are on sale now here. Several dates have already sold out.100% of his tour profits will go to European animal rights organizations.
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 and last year released his directorial debut Punk Rock Vegan Movie via his production company Little Walnut, a passionate and stylistically idiosyncratic look at the ongoing relationship between the worlds of punk rock and animal rights. It includes interviews with some of the biggest names in punk and rock history.
Moby’s Greatest Hits Live in Europe/UK Celebrating 25 Years of Play
September 2024
September 18 – Manchester, England – The O2 Apollo (SOLD OUT)
September 19 – London, England – The O2
September 21 – Antwerp, Belgium – Sportpaleis (SOLD OUT)
September 22 – Berlin, Germany – Velodrom (SOLD OUT)
September 23 – Düsseldorf, Germany – Mitsubishi Electric Hall
September 24 – Paris, France – Le Zenith (SOLD OUT)
September 25 – Lausanne, Switzerland – Vaudoise Arena
3rd Street DJ Mix tracklist:
1. moby ft. Danaé Wellington – ‘wild flame’ (dark1 remix)
2. moby ft. JP Bimeni – ‘should sleep’ (Prins Thomas Diskomix)
3. moby – ‘feelings come undone’ (piano remix)
4. moby ft. Benjamin Zephaniah – ‘where is your pride?’ (mar 29 remix)
5. moby ft. Lady Blackbird – ‘dark days’ (tonic walter remix)
6. moby ft. serpentwithfeet – ‘on air’ (house remix1)
7. moby ft. Gaidaa – ‘transit’ (july 2 remix)
8. moby ft. Choklate – ‘sweet moon’ (jung remix)
9. moby – ‘feelings come undone’ (remix2)
10. moby ft. Akemi Fox – ‘fall back’ (coco bryce Remix)
11. moby ft. India Carney – ‘precious mind’ (april 23 remix)
‘always centered at night’ (LP) tracklisting:
01. on air (feat. serpentwithfeet)
02. dark days (feat. Lady Blackbird)
03. where is your pride? (feat. Benjamin Zephaniah) 04. transit (feat. Gaidaa)
05. wild flame (feat. Danaé Wellington)
06. precious mind (feat. India Carney)
07. should sleep (feat. J.P Bimeni)
08. feelings come undone (feat. Raquel Rodriguez) 09. medusa (feat. Aynzli Jones)
10. we’re going wrong (feat. Brie O’Banion)
11. fall back (feat. Akemi Fox)
12. sweet moon (feat. Choklate)
13. ache for (feat. José James)
Press quotes for ‘always centered at night’ – out now
“this luxuriant collection is one of Moby’s most consistently inviting and uplifting in years.” – UNCUT
“Moby’s ear for collaboration feels refreshingly ego-free, allowing talents around him to blossom. ‘always centered at night’ leans in on this, with Moby acting as a fulcrum for a veritable galaxy of collaborators, resulting in an enriching, and surprising full length… This new album finds the producer gazing once more to the future…” – CLASH
“always centered at night is arguably his most inventive LP since that magnum opus {Play}.” – Classic Pop
“From moments of erupting, bedazzling attacks from multi-storey car parks or fairgrounds in fields still muddy since the 90s, and other moments glistening with bejewelled melodies that should be played on repeat in a monastery (or at 3am), Moby’s lifelong confronting of the human condition, his contemplations, his questioning, his principles, his questions are all explored with a little help from his friends making Always Centred At Night, an album about the spirit of discovery.” – Louder Than War
“the reason the album is worth a cherry pick is that there are moments when Moby hits the bullseye. These include the swampy, twangy blues of “Sweet Moon”, with vocals by American singer Choklate, the ominous doom-soul of “Transit”, with Sudanese singer Gaidaa, the melancholic ambient-ballad version of Cream’s “We’re Going Wrong”, with Brie O’Banion, and the closing piano shuffler, with José James, which is proper wee-hours jazz.” – The Arts Desk
“beautifully produced, with an almost cinematic sheen to many of the tracks. You could easily imagine Dark Days, with the evocative vocals of Lady Blackbird, accompanying the credits of a dark, dystopian sci-fi film, while the orchestrations of We’re Going Wrong are stark and dramatic, contrasting nicely with Brie O’Banion’s understated vocals.” – Music OMH
About Moby:
Moby was born Richard Melville Hall, in Harlem, in 1965. His father gave him his nickname, Moby, when he was 10 minutes old, because of his hereditary relationship to Herman Melville. Moby started playing classical music and studying music theory when he was 9 and came of age musically in the punk rock scene in and around New York in the early 80’s. He released his first single, “Go,” in 1991 (listed as one of Rolling Stone magazine’s best records of all time) and has been making albums ever since. He has sold over 20,000,000 albums worldwide.
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