Taken from the new album - Wait for Me - http://moby.com
Moby on 'Walk With Me':
A friend of mine heard this and thought the vocals were a sample. I was like, Oh no, shes 26 years old and lives in Los Angeles. I did process her vocals, she has a very raspy voice and I wanted them to sound even older. But he thought it was 78-year-old woman from 1950. No, she wears purple jumpsuits and lives in LA and goes out and drinks too much. Thats one of the songs that has only one chord. I love the discipline of that: having one chord and keeping it simple and doing stuff melodically around it and arranging stuff around it. The lyrics are from a very old spiritual. I wanted to create the juxtaposition of the old plaintive spiritual elements with old analogue synthesizers and broken old drum machines. Everything on there is broken down: the vocals sound broken down, the synthesizers are old and crummy and broken down.
Taken from the new album - Wait for Me - http://moby.com
Moby on 'Walk With Me':
A friend of mine heard this and thought the vocals were a sample. I was like, Oh no, shes 26 years old and lives in Los Angeles. I did process her vocals, she has a very raspy voice and I wanted them to sound even older. But he thought it was 78-year-old woman from 1950. No, she wears purple jumpsuits and lives in LA and goes out and drinks too much. Thats one of the songs that has only one chord. I love the discipline of that: having one chord and keeping it simple and doing stuff melodically around it and arranging stuff around it. The lyrics are from a very old spiritual. I wanted to create the juxtaposition of the old plaintive spiritual elements with old analogue synthesizers and broken old drum machines. Everything on there is broken down: the vocals sound broken down, the synthesizers are old and crummy and broken down.