(Photo by Mike Formanski) Moby announces his return to live performances after a hiatus of over 10 years. He will embark on a short European tour in September 2024 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his album “Play” and perform his greatest hits. Moby has committed 100% of his tour profits to benefit European animal rights organizations.

The tour will include performances in major European cities such as London, Berlin, and Paris. General ticket sales for the tour will start on March 22 at 10 AM GMT.

Alongside the tour announcement, Moby has shared a new single and official video titled “Dark Days”, featuring American jazz singer-songwriter Lady Blackbird, which is available now.

The new single announces a new album titled “Always Centered at Night”, scheduled for release on June 14 via Mute. The album features collaborations with 13 different artists across 13 tracks, including contributions from the late Benjamin Zephaniah, serpentwithfeet, Gaidaa, and Lady Blackbird.

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(Photo by Jonathan Nesvadba) Moby returns with his semi-annual tradition of releasing a new album of ambient compositions, with “Ambient 23”, a 16-track album.

Moby reflects on how he created the album: “It’s a bit different than some of my more recent Ambient records because it’s almost exclusively made with weird old drum machines and old synths from my collection, inspired by my early ambient heroes.”

In 2022 Moby launched his new label Always Centered at Night (ACAN) to make emotional, atmospheric music. With this idea in mind, the label brought us its debut release “Medusa”, a collaboration between Moby and Doja Cat collaborator Aynzli Jones. Next were “On Air” with serpentwithfeet, “Fall Back” with Akemi Fox and most recently the stripped-back orchestral “Ache For” with José James.

Multiple releases on ACAN are planned for 2023 and beyond, with other news coming soon.

Listen to Ambient 23 below.

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