Transcript for the Piece Audio version of Moby: Wait for Me

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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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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THAT'S PALE HORSES WITH Amelia Zirin Brown. IT'S ONE OF SEVERAL SONGS ON WAIT FOR ME THAT ARE SUNG BY BY LITTLE KNOWN VOCALISTS. THEY BRING A VULNERABILITY AND WORLD-WEARINESS BEYOND THEIR YEARS TO MOBY'S MUSIC. LIKE KELLI SCARR'S READING OF THE TITLE TRACK.

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Moby: What’s expressed in that idea Wait for Me is a degree of vulnerability and longing. there is a spiritual connotation to it, which is that idea of like saying to God or to whomever, like I clearly have no idea what’s going on. I don’t know what I’m doing, just have a little patience with me.

MUSIK

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"WAIT FOR ME" IS A DEEPLY PERSONAL ALBUM, FAR REMOVED FROM MOBY'S TECHNO DANCE ORIGINS.

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Moby: [[...... Wait for Me is made by me in a very almost monastic way in my studio by myself late at night. And 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.

MUSIK

MOBY SAID HE WANTED TO MAKE A PERSONAL ALBUM, AND HE DID, BUT WAIT FOR ME ALSO SPEAKS TO UNIVERSAL YEARNING, IN A SONG CYCLE THAT REVEALS ITS SECRETS OVER REPEATED LISTENING. IT MAY BRING YOU TO TEARS IN ITS FORLORN POIGNANCY, BUT WILL LIFT YOU UP IN THE END. WAIT FOR ME IS OUT ON MUTE RECORDS. I'M JOHN DILIBERTO AND THIS HAS BEEN AN ECHO LOCATION.