Song is taken from forthcoming new album
Multi-Platinum selling singer, songwriter and producer Moby teams up with the highly acclaimed jazz/soul/blues singer-songwriter Lady Blackbird to create an orchestral rework of his iconic 2009 track “Walk With Me,” originally featured on the 2009 album Wait For Me.
The new version is a haunting, sweeping soundscape that rumbles like a storm approaching beneath her soaring, captivating vocals, and is taken from Moby’s forthcoming new album, Resound NYC, coming May 12th via Deutsche Grammophon.
“There are a lot of amazing voices on the planet, but honestly almost no one has a voice as distinctive and remarkable as Lady Blackbird,” Moby shares.
“When I first heard the song ‘Walk With Me,’ I was reminded of being a child and singing in the church. For me, that’s going back to where it all began… So we decided to open the shows with it and bring people into the ceremony!” adds Lady Blackbird.
On Resound NYC, Moby reimagines and orchestrates 15 of his most iconic tracks written or recorded in New York from the years 1994 to 2010, with guest vocalists including Gregory Porter, Ricky Wilson (Kaiser Chiefs), Margo Timmins, and Amythyst Kiah. Last month, Moby shared “In This World” featuring Marisha Wallace.
Resound NYC is the follow up to Moby’s acclaimed 2021 album Reprise, 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 elderly father of mesmerizingly soulful Danielle Ponder joins her on the remake of “Run On.”
The music pioneer’s 20th studio album reflects perhaps the most defining era in Moby’s musical life, from his former home and birth place New York City. It was there he began his music career playing in punk rock bands, and DJ’ing at underground clubs in and around New York.
After dj’ing and touring live through the 90’s, in 1999 Moby’s breakthrough album Play became not just a commercial success but a global phenomenon. He had already enjoyed hits with “Go,” “Feeling So Real,” and his version of the “James Bond Theme,” and 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.
