Of all the music makers, producers and singer/songwriters in the world, one can surely stands out for his open-minded understanding and appreciation of music at 360 degrees applied to dance floors and club culture, is most certainly Richard Melville Hall, better known internationally as Moby.
With an illustrious career spanning across 3 decades, where the New York artist has recorded more than 20 albums, written 4 books and won numerous awards, Moby has returned, just towards the end of 2024, with a monumental release of a double album called Always Centered At Night - Remixes, which comprises 58 tracks recorded with different vocalists and with the usual clever and spectacularly beautiful approach to different sonic backgrounds that have made of Moby the exceptional artist he is and, very likely, will continue to be.
According to Moby, this album of remixes is the continuation of a project carrying the same name and launched back in 2022, when the American artist would think back to a time of his life when, walking into record shops in the '80s in N.Y., Moby was finding himself often immersed and pleasantly lost in those different sounds the artist kept listening, when walking in said shops.
Moby has always been and still is somebody that is instinctively able to recognize the intensity and inner talent of certain vocalists, no matter whether they are renowned ones or not.
For Always Centered At Night - Remixes, the American singer/songwriter and producer has chosen carefully some of the most fabulous vocalists from all over the world to sing on his compositions, with singers like the American Blues/Jazz/Soul Powerhouse Lady Blackbird to incredible vocalists like the Sudanese singer Gaidaa, Benjamin Zephaniah, Brie O' Banion, Akemi Fox and many many more.
Moby's batch of new songs are here presented with different sonic dresses but always accurately produced and recorded with enormous accuracy at every point, in a kaleidoscope of sounds that touches genres like Drum'N'Bass, Ambient, Gospel, Techno, Trip-Hop, House, among others, with statuary elegance and almost effortless craftmanship. The new songs present on Always Centered At Night - Remixes feel always very personal, touching social and political themes close to the heart of this incredible music magician.
In a world dictated by oppressive and often suffocating rhythms of life, Moby's Remixes album works as an ideal antidote to the daily bags of stress we face in our lives, moving from more uptempo, liberating tunes to other more reflective and dreaming, reminding all of us that there is still time, in our life, for dreaming, for closing our eyes and let the music to guide our instincts and free our minds from the clouds that may sometimes obscure our lives.
An album to buy, listen and love, an album that confirms, once again, the grandiosity of a sensitive, inspired artist as Moby truly is.
Always Centered At Night - Remixes is out now and it is available to be purchased via Mute Records
