Singer, songwriter, and producer, Moby, teams up with acclaimed jazz/soul/blues singer-songwriter Lady Blackbird to create an orchestral reworking of her iconic 2009 song, “Walk With Me,” originally included on the 2009 album, ” Wait For Me”.
“Walk With Me” is an immersive and haunting soundscape that rumbles like an approaching storm under her soaring, captivating voice, and is taken from Moby’s upcoming album, “Resound NYC”, which will be released on May 12, 2023 via Deutsche Grammophon.“There are so many amazing voices on the planet, but honestly, hardly anyone has as distinctive and remarkable a voice as Lady Blackbird,” Moby comments.
“When I first heard the song ‘Walk With Me,’ it reminded me of being a girl and singing in church. For me, that’s going back to where it all began… So we decided to open the shows with that and bring people to the ceremony!” says Lady Blackbird, whose debut album ‘Black Acid Soul’ it garnered five star reviews and won unanimous praise in all UK outlets.
On “Resound NYC,” Moby reinvents and orchestrates fifteen of his most iconic tracks written or recorded in New York between 1994 and 2010, featuring guest vocalists such as Gregory Porter, Ricky Wilson (Kaiser Chiefs), Margo Timmins, and Amythyst Kiah. Last month, Moby shared “In This World” with Marisha Wallace.
A haunting remix of “Walk With Me” via the ever-focused late-night label Moby accompanies the ever-focused release. at night, was released last year and has featured collaborations with Gaidaa (transit), José James (ache for), Akemi Fox (fall back), serpentwithfeet (on air) and Aynzli Jones (jellyfish), with collective transmissions of more than 15m through platforms.
“Resound NYC” is the follow-up to Moby’s critically acclaimed album “Reprise de Moby” (May 2021), which featured guests including Kris Kristofferson, Mark Lanegan, Jim James and Skylar Grey.While many of the vocalists on “Resound NYC” are well-known names, others are less familiar: Moby discovered PT Banks singing in a wedding band in Texas, while the mesmerizing and soulful Danielle Ponder’s father joins her in the new version of “Run On.”
The music pioneer’s twentieth studio album reflects perhaps the most defining era in Moby’s musical life, from his former home and birthplace, New York City. It was there that he began his musical career of him playing in punk rock bands and DJing. in underground clubs in and around New York.
After DJing and touring live throughout the 1990s, in 1999 Moby’s hit album “Play” became not only a commercial success, but also a worldwide phenomenon. He had already enjoyed successes like “Go”, “Feeling So Real” and his version of the “James Bond Theme”, and he had been asked to remix everyone from Michael Jackson to Freddy Mercury, but the smash hit “Play” changed everything. As we entered a new millennium, he turned electronic music on its head. “Before I discovered punk rock, I grew up on classic rock,” says Moby.
“My first concert was Yes at Madison Square Garden in 1978. So it was super compelling to revisit my songs and see if they stuck to a more traditional orchestral approach, not an electronic one.” Revisiting its past while reinventing its future has resulted in “Resound NYC,” an album packed with exciting music, a classic reworking of definitive and era-defining songs, which reminds us once again of the incredible scope and relevance of Moby’s musical talent. (The original version of “When It’s Cold I’d Like to Die” recently appeared on Netflix’s Stranger Things finale.)
“An orchestra can be anything, it can be whatever the composer wants it to be,” says Moby. “So instead of all songs getting the same orchestral treatment, I built a bespoke orchestral approach to each song.”
.With “Resound NYC”, Moby reconsiders not only the evolution of his own work, but also a time, a place and even a transformation in our world: “When you think back to the ’90s,” he says, “Bill Clinton was president; the rave scene was this utopian, idyllic world; the Soviet Union was over; climate change was just an idea for a book Al Gore was going to write. Back then, making music was this celebration of the potential that our world had, that our culture had. And now it’s almost a refuge in a sometimes terrifying and apocalyptic world.”
Songs list
1. In My Heart ft. Gregory Porter
2. Extreme Ways ft. The Temper Trap
3. South Side ft. Ricky Wilson
4. Flower (Find My Baby) ft. Amythyst Kiah
5. In This World ft. Marisha Wallace
6. Helpless ft. Margo Timmins, Damien Jurado
7. Signs Of Love
8. Perfect Life ft. Ricky Wilson
9. When It’s Cold I’d Like To Die ft. P.T. Banks
10. Slipping Away
11. Second Cool Hive ft. OUM, Sarah Willis
12. Hyenas
13. Last Night
14. Run On ft. Danielle Ponder, Elijah Ponder
15. Walk With Me ft. Lady Blackbird
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