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Today, on the latest episode of his podcast “Moby Pod,” musician and activist Moby announced the charities that will be the recipients of the proceeds from his upcoming European tour, with several sold out dates already, in September with support from Lady Blackbird. As previously announced, Moby is donating all of his profits from the shows to animal rights charities. Along with financial support, Moby has offered spaces at the venues where the charities will be allowed to sell merchandise and distribute information about what they do.
Last month, Moby shared his critically acclaimed album always centered at night featuring 13 collaborators. Plus, besides the twelve local organizations, Moby is also including two global organizations, EarthPercent and The Jane Goodall Institute. The full list is below:
EU
France
L214
L214 is an association for the defense of animals used as food resources (meat, milk, eggs, fish). Since its beginnings in 2008, it has made public more than 100 investigations revealing the conditions of breeding, transport and slaughter of animals.
Assietes Végétales
Their mission is to ensure that half of the menus served in collective restaurants in France are vegetarian. Their movement is seizing this powerful lever to save the climate and farm animals, and to ensure inclusiveness and the health of diners.
Belgium
Gaia
GAIA (Global Action in the Interest of Animals) is the most influential and one of the best-known animal rights organisations in Belgium. We believe that animals should also be treated with respect and have the right to a dignified existence. We advocate a relationship between humans and animals that is characterised by humanity and justice.
ProVeg Belgium
ProVeg Belgium is part of ProVeg International, the first international organization that specifically focuses on plant-based food. By 2040, we want to halve the global consumption of animal products.
Vegan Brussels
Vegan Brussels aims to partner with gastronomers and culinary innovators on an exciting journey toward introducing and expanding vegan options in restaurants.
Germany
Albert Schweizer
Our mission is to raise animal welfare standards, reduce the consumption of animal products and spread the vegan idea.
UK
The Humane League UK
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food.
Plant Based Universities
Plant-Based Universities is an Animal Rising campaign that began in late 2021, calling on universities to transition to 100% just and sustainable plant-based catering to tackle the climate and nature crises.
Animal Law Foundation
The Animal Law Foundation was founded with the goal of building better laws for animals.
Switzerland
Tier im Recht
The aim of all Tier Im Recht projects is to improve the human-animal relationship in a legal, ethical, and social sense.
Swiss Animal Protection
Swiss Animal Protection is the umbrella organization of 71 cantonal and regional animal protection societies in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein. Founded in 1861, it is the largest animal protection organization operating throughout Switzerland.
Tier im Fokus
We fight for a peaceful coexistence between humans and other animals who are equal members of society.
EarthPercent
We want a healthy, equitable and liveable planet for generations to come. To achieve this, our mission is to unleash the power of music in service to the planet.
Jane Goodall Institute
We are a global community conservation organization that advances the vision and work of Dr. Jane Goodall. By protecting chimpanzees and inspiring people to conserve the natural world we all share, we improve the lives of people, animals and the environment.
The tour will feature his greatest hits, including classics such as “Porcelain,” “Natural Blues” and “Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?”, taken from the album Play which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and has sold over 12 million copies worldwide, winning numerous awards and becoming the biggest-selling electronic album of all time.
The new playful, hand-drawn video for Latin house track "feelings come undone" with Raquel Rodriguez feat sees Moby illustrate the track with a marker on a white board, starring an anonymous small space alien. The drawing is played back in reverse to mirror the track's title, as if to "undo" the story. Moby says of the video, "Years ago when I was a little college dropout sleeping on my mom's pull out couch, I started drawing my space alien alter ego. I don't know his name, but he keeps showing up and that makes me happy.”
2024 stands to be another big year for Moby where past endeavors and innovative future music coalesce, still pioneering, with activism at the forefront of everything he does. Always centered at night–the album–is the continuation of the project of the same name that Moby announced in 2022. He saw this project as a similar service to the idiosyncratic New York record shops that he frequented in the late 1980s, where he’d hear something recondite and exciting and it would open up whole new worlds. always centered at night was his way of working with special writers and vocalists to make songs inspired by the spirit of musical discovery.
In his pursuit of new sounds, Moby has become something of a collector of voices. He’s a connoisseur of the timbre and texture of human vocal chords, whether sampling artists like Bessie Jones, Vera Hall or Boy Blue on Play, or working with superstars like David Bowie, Ozzy Osborne and Britney Spears: “I’m always looking. Sometimes it’s about going on YouTube. Sometimes it’s Spotify. Other times, it’s just walking around Lower Manhattan going to karaoke places, where I’ve actually found a couple of singers. It’s this constant process of looking for voices, and getting excited and inspired when I find a wonderful voice.”
These are often personal songs, and the personal is the political, as is the border-defying nature of the work. Moreover, they’re crepuscular, conceived at twilight, with many of the styles of the last 30 years in electronic music coming to the fore, such as the trip-hoppy "we’re going wrong" featuring Brie O’Banion, the broken beat, almost drum ‘n’ bass influenced "medusa" (with the aforementioned Aynzli Jones).
Since its inception–that has also included collaborations with José James, "ache for," and Akemi Fox "fall back" it has amassed collective streams of over 15M across platforms. All 13 collaborations are collected together here for the first time.
Moby is a multi-platinum-selling, multi-award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, author, and animal rights activist. He has been a vegan and vegan activist for 35 years and last year released his directorial debut Punk Rock Vegan Movie via his production company Little Walnut, a passionate and stylistically idiosyncratic look at the ongoing relationship between the worlds of punk rock and animal rights. It includes interviews with some of the biggest names in punk and rock history.
See Moby live in Europe and UK this September with tickets on sale now here with support from Lady Blackbird with all proceeds going to animal rights organizations. Moby's new album, always centered at night featuring a remarkable host of collaborators, is out everywhere now. Keep up with all things Moby on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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