On *very heavy* rotation this last time: the last CD of Moby – Hotel. Btw, have a look at the Moby’s website, really great, and a cool design. He opened a journal (a kind of “semi-blog-form”, i.e. without comments/permalink), which has attracted my attention during the last 30 minutes, at least… Moby is also shooting a lot, and he is publishing lots of pictures he took himself. Captivating, too.

An extract of his Journal, explaining the meaning of the first hit of Hotel – Lift me up:

‘lift me up’…this is a complicated one…’lift me up’ is about the human propensity towards turning off our higher, critical, rational cognitive functions and willfully and enthusiastically degenerating to an atavistic tribal state wherein we don’t judge things from an empirical, rational perspective, but rather from a limbic, feral, tribal perspective.
and it’s also about how religious leaders and political leaders(and, well, entertainers, too…but hopefully in a relatively benign way…)play upon peoples willingness to lose themselves in said atavistic, tribal, collective, irrational behaviour.(most descriptive line: ‘it’s sweeter than doubt’, regarding the certainy that comes with ‘true belief’…).

I have seen Moby for some days at a French TV show called Taratata (in French), a very good exclusively-live-music program, with an excellent sound and mix quality. Moby sang (and played bass guitar on) two tracks: Lift me up from Hotel and Natural blues from the last one. Impressive, wow!

Moby was also interviewed during the show and I must say that he seems to be a very nice person: a lot of (black/British) humor, very smart, humble, and *very* engaged politically (he is fighting against Bush and his administration since years).

Highly recommended artist and CD!!