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Moby, June 2012
Hardcover
Destroyed
Damiani
June 2012
On Sale: May 31, 2012
120 pages ISBN: 8862081553 EAN: 9788862081559 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Photography
Like no other music of its era, Moby's oceanic, bluesy
electronica has summed up the millennial turn's rootless
melancholia, in massive worldwide hits like "Porcelain,"
"Natural Blues" and "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" His
1999 album Play sold over ten million copies and converted a
whole generation to electronic dance music. With Destroyed,
Moby has created a visual analogue to his gorgeous
soundworld. The photographs in this volume record the
sizeable portion of his life that is spent shuttling from
plane to bus to venue to stage to party to hotel room to
oblivion. "I hope that somehow in these pictures," Moby
writes, "I'm able to convey the mundanity of touring,
juxtaposed with those moments of the strange and/or sublime.
One minute on tour you're by yourself in a soulless airport,
the next minute you're flying over the most beautiful
landscapes on the planet. One minute on tour you're by
yourself in a soulless backstage area, the next minute
you're on stage pouring your heart out to 75,000 people.
Touring is all contrasts and strangeness, and that's what
I'm trying to convey in these pictures." The 60 photographs
in Moby: Destroyed accordingly veer from crowdedness to
isolation, capturing the extremes of a life lived on the
road. Also included is Moby's new album of the same name.
Richard Hall, aka Moby, was born in Harlem, New York City,
in 1965. Having studied classical guitar, piano and drums as
a child, and after stints in various punk bands, he debuted
in the early 1990s alongside Orbital, The Prodigy and Aphex
Twin, as a representative of a new generation in
electronica, emerging from Ambient House and Techno, and
foreshadowing Trip Hop. Moby's bestselling 1999 album Play
propelled him to worldwide fame; its successor, 18 (2002),
earned gold and platinum awards in over 30 countries.
Already famous for his veganism, Moby made his authorial
debut in March 2010 as a contributor to Gristle: From
Factory Farms to Food Safety, a collection of essays on the
dangers of eating meat.
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