Moby: Wait for Me
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
From: John Diliberto
Length: 00:03:30
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Moby has made his most personal album yet with Wait for Me. It's a CD of deep textures, soulful ruminations and unexpected turns. Moby says: "It’s really designed for one listener. It’s not designed for a party, it’s not designed for 20 people in a bar or night club to listen to. It’s for someone lying in bed Sunday morning 9 o'clock when it’s raining outside." We go inside Wait for Me when we talk with Moby.
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Piece Description
Moby has made his most personal album yet with Wait for Me. It's a CD of deep textures, soulful ruminations and unexpected turns. Moby says: "It’s really designed for one listener. It’s not designed for a party, it’s not designed for 20 people in a bar or night club to listen to. It’s for someone lying in bed Sunday morning 9 o'clock when it’s raining outside." We go inside Wait for Me when we talk with Moby.
Broadcast History
WXPN Philadelphia 7/1/09, WITF Harrisburg 7/4/09
Transcript
Musik
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IT'S BEEN TEN YEARS SINCE MOBY PUT OUT HIS MULTI-PLATINUM SELLING ALBUM, "PLAY." IT BECAME UBIQUITOUS IN FILMS, tv, AND COMMERCIALS.
MUSIK BITE
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YOU'LL HEAR ECHOES OF PLAY IN MOBY'S NEW ABLUM, "WAIT FOR ME." A SONG CYCLE OF PERSONAL REFLECTION AND HEART-TUGGING MOODS. LIKE THE OLD FIELD RECORDINGS HE USED ON PLAY, IT'S DUSTY, SCRATCHY AND BRITTLE WITH AGE. EVEN THOUGH HE USES LITTLE VOCAL SAMPLING, HE WRITES HIS LYRICS AS IF HE WAS CUTTING AND PASTING VOCALS OFF OLD 78S.
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09:18
Moby: I listen to a lot of very, very old music, And one of the things that I love about old blues and some old gospel music is how plaintive and repetitive they can be. And I guess because I listen to so much old African-American music, it kind of makes sense that when I would write my own vocals and my own lyrics that they’d be inspired by that.
MUSIK PALE HORSES
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Timing and Cues
Incue: [sonar sound] + This is an Echo Location: Soundings for New Music.
Outcue: I’m John Diliberto and this has been an Echo Location, Soundings for New Music
