''Live Ambient – Improvised Recordings Vol. 1'' is the eighteenth studio album by American musician

Moby Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter, singer, producer, and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the ...

, released on December 24, 2020 on his

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imprint, Mobyambient. It features 10 tracks recorded at his home studio that were fully

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, with nothing written beforehand.

Background

Moby announced the album on December 22, 2020 and shared the three conditions that he set himself when recording started: to capture a purely improvised performance with nothing written beforehand, avoid any editing of the tracks once recording had finished, and that every part of the recording process was to be "calming".

Release

The album was released on December 24, 2020 on various digital streaming platforms. This will be followed by videos of Moby performing each track being released on his YouTube channel on December 30. On December 22, the day the album was announced, Moby released the audio and video of the first track, "Live Ambient 1".

Track listing

# "Live Ambient 1" - 10:51 # "Live Ambient 2" - 10:11 # "Live Ambient 3" - 10:08 # "Live Ambient 4" - 11:33 # "Live Ambient 5" - 9:17 # "Live Ambient 6" - 8:56 # "Live Ambient 7" - 9:43 # "Live Ambient 8" - 6:55 # "Live Ambient 9" - 8:03 # "Live Ambient 10" - 27:12

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Live Ambients - Improvised Recordings Vol. 1 2020 albums Moby albums Ambient albums by American artists Self-released albums