The making of "God Moving Over The Face of the Waters" (Reprise Version) by Moby

'In this God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters ‘making of’ i talk about how the song was written and recorded, but also about the meaning of the song, and it’s more esoteric and spiritual components. It makes sense to me, not sure if it makes sense to anyone else...' - moby
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[@simonharlow3937]

My introduction to this song was in the movie HEAT. I love this song so much and never grow tired of hearing it.

[@datadude67]

Heat was my introduction as well. It is a simple yet powerful song. And a beautiful movie.

[@GDCJ25]

What’s crazy it was introduced to me in my 5th grade graduation with a short video as a goodbye

[@calicoesblue4703]

Same😎👍

[@bendalton5221]

Yup.... that version and the way it closes out that movie is classic, fits so perfectly

[@tube33139]

Chills.

[@dawnv8252]

My youngest son had unexpectedly died at the age of 31. His big brother picked this song to be played at his funeral as his casket was being brought in, it is a beautiful moving piece. And I am so thankful that it was played at my sons funeral. The song brings me peace. Thank you

[@thephoenix3155]

I’m so sorry to hear your youngest son has passed away, and you older son has impeccable music taste. 😢 🪦

[@tojiroh]

I cannot find a more fitting song for someone to be put to rest. I'm sorry for your loss, may your love grow through your grief. ❤

[@SiddharthSinghFiery69]

🙏❤️

[@MrJEANKRY]

nice choice ....

[@cherylswindells3845]

This is my all-time favorite piece of music. It is what I imagine heaven to sound like.

[@AlaskaCamoKim]

This song played on Day 10 of my drive from North Carolina to Alaska. Exhausted, I looked to my left and saw the magnificent Wrangell Mountain range and immediately burst into tears. Thank you for providing a soundtrack to my adventures.

[@bloodrunsclear]

It's intriguing to see 'God' through music. Not a visual image, but an emotional impression of something wondrous.

[@alansmith4655]

Hey man, I’ve listened to this song so many times I’ve lost count. It’s absolutely beautiful. I can’t state how beautiful it is with words. Whenever I leave this place I’ve told the people who’ll send me off that this is the tune they should play. Thank you so much.

[@metal_films]

💛

[@stprm2013]

Best Moby single for me. Reprise version of it is also very very very very good.

[@13StopsPocketFilms]

Just reconnected with this song again through the movie Grand Turismo. My goodness, such a perfect alchemy of elevated cinematic direction + musical genius. Oh, the tears! Thank you for such great work Moby 🙏🏿

[@nodancingpalmtrees7931]

Tears come to my eyes every time I hear this song. Every single time. 💙

[@cecelino]

I am just in love with the “Heat” ending version. It differs from original. But it is powerful and grandiose. Great streams of Being are coming through me when I am listening to this piece of music.

[@dattzmusic]

How does it differ?

[@WolfRhymesEntertainment]

Moby - Everytime you touch me . I REMEMBER AND STILL LISTEN TO IT! Awesome track! LORD bless you Moby!!

[@ncmy4kids]

I've been home since August fighting cancer (I'm now healed!) I found your music and fell in love with this song especially. Like you, I listened and cried with emotion. I felt the beginning, His thoughts, the majesty and power of the sea in the violins. It moved me deeply. In the 90s I wrote a paper in college comparing Genesis and Evolution. It was eye opening and fascinated me. I've never heard anyone else mention this until today. Amazing. Thank you for your music 😊

[@ValAndreaWay]

This song has meant so much to me for so many years. It would always take me to a place of beauty & calm when everything was chaos in my life. I loved hearing how the song came to be, I’m so glad the meaning is as profound as I thought it might be. ❤️🙏🏽

[@a1111111111111111ist]

One of the greatest pieces of music ever written!

[@TheHighKingFingolfin]

This track/piece changed my life. I first heard it in 2005 when I was working at a hostel bar, and it played on loop for weeks after, to the discontent of many a patron. I didn't care. It's been my go-to music for getting through hard times, and also as a celebration of all God represents. Thank you, Moby. ❤

[@datadude67]

This song hits me so powerfully. Thank You Moby for seeing this song through to its fruition!

[@catherinebeduer3838]

Moby, I appreciate you and love you since you were a DJ .... and even more since you wrote your music !! I am a huge fan and love it when you explain your thoughts, your emotions and how you create your wonderful music.🙏😌😍🤩💖🥰💝 Congratulations and thank you so much, Moby. 💕🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹😊🌹❤😍

[@Andrew-jv2qj]

Hi Catherine

[@mar78andres28]

I have listened to this very song since its initial release close to over a thousand times and as crazy as this seems I have also envisioned the earth in its very moment of physical creation by the hand of the all mighty.. I've looked up that very same verse in the book of Genesis and i've read it over and over and to this day there's nothing more powerful and moving to me than this very scripture and this beautiful song. - thanks for reading.

[@steviesugano6355]

.....I am so pleased with Moby's spiritual independence. Be yourself, do Good for all life on the planet and You are 'God.'

[@darbyheavey406]

he seems humbled ny his own insight....

[@ahmedrahim2500]

"A guy once told me to not get attached to any thing you aren't willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat when you feel the heat around the corner"

[@Nick-dz9hq]

I remember being a little kid hearing Moby’s music for the first time, it was mind-blowing!👏🏾

[@HardSquirter]

Which was a track?

[@gustavoorgastic]

yes!!!

[@peteygbklyn]

What he described, his intent and conceptual vision is exactly what I’ve always seen and felt in my mind when I’ve played this song. It’s astounding what he envisioned and created translated through this song and into my (and perhaps many others) mind. And this orchestral piece is so so amazing - a masterpiece.

[@yesmarioo]

Same here. Quite astonishing what he achieved.

[@shanecamendt]

Love from Canada 🇨🇦 Moby thank you so much for this song 🎵 to me this song feels like a spiritual awakening I wish you happiness for you and your family 👪

[@CMX4]

Hey moby, hey everyone!

[@algoritmus50]

Im in ❤️ with mobys music.

[@dafunkester]

"told you I'm never going back"

[@Ilegator]

what is that phrase from??

[@dafunkester]

@@Ilegator "Heat" it has this excellent song on its soundtrack.

[@Ilegator]

@@dafunkester Ohh true! I watched the film because of this amazing song. Didn't regret it.

[@stprm2013]

@@Ilegator yea, Michael Mann always have a brilliant music & songs in his films. Literally in every film/TV he made.

[@fidgetspinner343]

My favourite Moby song. Have listened to I probably thousands of times over almost 30 years, never tire of it. It is special.

[@madfoodreviews9197]

Moby, that was a spiritual experience that you had. God was showing you that HE IS REAL.

[@saikishore7026]

This music is one of the greatest works done by humanity. It will be written in history.

[@oraculox]

I think that Crescendo moment Rich talks about is a moment of clarity we have a few times in our times that feels like this "Birth" and it´s really amazing, and to feel it by something you did is more rare and even more amazing!. It´s a timestoping feeling created in a moment that only music is an almost methaphisic field capable of creating it.

[@JonettaJeanneTranceCat723]

I love you Moby 💗

[@mp-ku8tz]

Thank you for these. This is one of the greatest songs written and these snippets of how you do what you do is just fantastic

[@constancekavanagh1125]

Love from Ireland love your music it touches my soul 🤗🇮🇪🙏🙌🌀🌬

[@Andrew-jv2qj]

Hello

[@IrishTechnicalThinker]

Shout out from Belfast.

[@Madmixmalo1]

Its only one live version of this song ..avalible in the world. Its one of my all time favorite of all music... I like the new version But the original has the key crash before the step ... And the Angels voices are Just Perfect ... Must be played loud I wish I could have heard this live ... The crash of those footsteps ... And the release of life before the next step .... Amazing Moby it was this song that (Defined the best of Electronic music. For me) 18 albulm is Boss Play is Boss as well ... Rushing was on replay for years 😊 Thanks for sharing your vision

[@robertaharvey2027]

The version with unkle is the one i heard first...it sooths my soul and i have danced to it in some unusual places that are such great memories created! I once got free tickets to see moby and one of the best magical syncronicities in my life, i also was introduced to unkle separately and then i heard this... 😂🎉❤🎉

[@flaviamendesphotography3070]

This is one of my fav in Reprise. Thank you for sharing this beautiful story. We have com from the Light , to it we shalll return. I love you.

[@WolfoftheWoodsAirsoft]

Like many people brought to this track by HEAT it hits us in the heart and soul. I love the reprise version and the movie version where there's that beginning as Vincent is closing in on Neil that isn't heard on any other version...

[@brotherchristopher2149]

Brother you know who He is ! I love this masterpiece. However this was a marvelous description who He is! He gave you that I totally believe it! Bless you! I love your music your creative talent and inspiration! Be blessed my friend! Love the new single! Just downloaded it today!

[@dreamswithindreams]

Dear Richard,(Moby), so good to know about this music, from one of my fav Moby songs/music (God moving over the face of waters) .. keep it up, always good wishes for good music, peace. 🌈❤️🕊️

[@razmoe2000]

Beautiful explanation of a beautiful song. I did a rave with you back in the early 90s in Toronto, you showed grace. Now I think you understand where that comes from.

[@Ambienfinity]

It's a remarkable piece of music. Profound, intricate and moving. Utterly, utterly wonderful and life-changing.

[@jennyerickson3085]

I remember the first time hearing that I was like whoa, who is that?!!! And then I heard it again and saw Moby I was mesmerized, it brought tears to my eyes. The title alone was amazing and then to see the artist. I have followed Moby ever since and never disappointed. There is a depth to his being. Thanks to the connection he creates bringing us together in the love of who he is as well as who we are in a deeper understanding.

[@Andrew-jv2qj]

Hi jenny

[@kdpowers]

When I hear this song, it reminds me of the events both beautiful and tragic of one’s life and a Timelapse of history.

[@joannemazurek9075]

One of my all time favorite musical pieces. ALL VERSIONS of it

[@tripp_dogg_ufc]

Hi Moby) will you make a concert in Russia someday? We waiting for you man)

[@KovietUnionDefector]

Wow it would be great to see Moby in St Petersburg with an orchestra playing some of his most beautiful compositions. What a great idea Raf bak....I hope one day Moby considers ths and the option is there for hm to do it.

[@HealFireOne]

He has nothing to do in your cattle country, clean up..

[@trips.bylove]

@@HealFireOne take it easy Chicken

[@mr.gerdjackdaniels5189]

@@trips.bylove 🎶👁️👃👁️🎵

[@Helga_riabova_hair]

Really, Moby! Came to sr Petersburg. I'm only 23, and i know about u, and I like your creation

[@monya91674]

Makes me cry too but so beautiful and inspiring at the same time. I put this with Love like a Sunset by Phoenix

[@runagroundmusic]

Inspiring! 🙏🏻 :)

[@I.O.M.]

One of my favorites.

[@Binx75075]

Watching "Heat" is when I fell in love with this song.

[@DeAngryDan]

I think iv listened to this song more than anyone else, but I reckon so does everyone else that gets this song.I remember falling in love with it, then watching an amazing movie and thinking wouldn't god moving over the face of the waters go with this film. Honestly, I genuinely was thinking this so imagine my shock at the end of this movie.

[@realstrange8265]

i think we all appreciate your honesty no matter what our opinion of you as an artist

[@sgarridolecca]

Omg! A master piece! As usual Moby! It was a nice story! Thanks for sharing! 🤍✨

[@mobyprivate3411]

Thank you very much for being a big fan. I am taking my time to appreciate some of my fans with my private here on KZbin and you are lucky one. I hope you are staying safe during this pandemic. Thank you, so much love from❤️ Moby❤. Thanks for supporting. You can relate with me privately on my email hangout at [e-mail]

[@FocusedClarity]

Moving Over Everyone And Every Beautiful moment ,🙂✝️❤️

[@bunny.thebest9103]

This song is a masterpiece.

[@conradjones635]

Hi Moby, one of the best songs ever written.

[@LANDSEAAIRCANADA]

Thank You for your refreshing communications Musically & Verbally long may you run.

[@PabloLarranaga]

I found my self reading the bible in Argentina while listening to this song, and now hearing from your words the song's background, everything makes sense. Thank you Moby for your willing to the Divine

[@tim_arterbury]

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.

[@johnstrasswimmermdphd7424]

I love that during the interview he comments on a dog that’s barking. Anybody else would’ve said “damn dog! “ Instead he says “poor dog”. What a kind person

[@susanbuckley4153]

Moby… you are absolutely AMAZING!! 🐾

[@Stevef2022]

This just might be my favourite piece of music. It is so mesmerizing, enchanting and enthralling while also being soothing to the soul. I really love it.

[@ericvandersteen5548]

Moby's music is like love moving to the center of our hearts

[@user-hp8it3mm6p]

Congratulations. I too have started crying. Peace and Love on Earth. From one Virgo to another Virgo.

[@FocusedClarity]

Thanks Moby, I really like the Aaronic Orchestra Version as my Best Friend passed away and his name is Aaron. Beautiful Music and Thanks ❤✝️

[@1life0gods]

I heard this song playing on The Weather Channel's local on the 8's back in 2006. I never knew what the name of it was until years later when I looked through online forums. I'm so glad I can listen to this on repeat.

[@mafe4754]

I cried some times when I listen Porcelain... 💘

[@mobyprivate3411]

Thank you very much for being a big fan. I am taking my time to appreciate some of my fans with my private here on KZbin and you are lucky one. I hope you are staying safe during this pandemic. Thank you, so much love from❤️ Moby❤. Thanks for supporting. You can relate with me privately on my email hangout at [e-mail]

[@mafe4754]

@@mobyprivate3411 OMG!!! Cried again! Please come to Brazil when possível and stay here in our place

[@eclecticdialectic1306]

@@mafe4754 that isn't Moby's actual account that replied above, be careful. There are impersonators that draw you into conversation to establish an emotional connection and then coax you into sending them money.

[@Dylan_Stockdale]

Everytime I listen to this song I get taken back to the first time I watched Heat and this song started playing at the end of the movie and seeing Pacino holding De Niro hand before his soul has left him.

[@freakymadafaka]

Hi moby i became your fan cuz my dad had your dvd play and i watched it over and over again, all the videos (my favorite is spiders) and the extras of that talking fish i love, thank God you got that record deal. Just wanted to say that since i was little and not knowing anything about life i tought you were one of the greatest and now grown and melomaniac i confirm that, felt the need to share it with you 💖

[@vladimirgalkin23]

Thanks for your music!

[@metafuel]

I've always loved this track. Love it even more now.

[@ingrydiih1]

The best song I've heard in my life until now :) So sensitive, deep, inspiring. Thank you!

[@mobyprivate3411]

Thank you very much for being a big fan. I am taking my time to appreciate some of my fans with my private here on KZbin and you are lucky one. I hope you are staying safe during this pandemic. Thank you, so much love from❤️ Moby❤. Thanks for supporting. You can relate with me privately on my email hangout at [e-mail]

[@Lucas-el2fx]

Heat is one of my Favorite Movies & God Moving Over the Face of the Waters is Simply a classic. i watch Heat often & love the ending of De Niro & Pacino @ LAX.

[@TheMsdmeanor]

Moby i can’t thank you enough! Not only is this album a masterpiece, it also really opens the door to end nonsense about all tech music fans being chemical freaks….You Sir are a GODsend 💐

[@vap0rtranz]

I had an experience with this song. I didn't know Moby had remembered the ancient Jewish story about the Genesis of life. I remember buying Everything is Wrong as CD, popping into my car expecting techno or rave, and driving when God Moving Over The Face of Waters came on. I had to stop and listen. Tears were streaming down my cheek. Everything I saw was brighter and deeper and more intimate than anything I'd ever experienced. I saw no old man or bright light in clouds; I heard no tyrant or scripture; I felt no pain. I felt the Divine prescence manifested through this song. Its spirit descended on everything around me. The spirit commanded my attention and raised me up, up above my small body in that litte car, up to its magnificient beauty, the glorious beauty of life all around me, all the people, the birds, the sky ... The tears wouldn't stop, and I cried out -- to let the Divine spirit pass over or overwhelm me; to take me or leave me, eitherway let it end. The song ended, and the echoes of the Divine spirit drifted away. I dried out my eyes and watery nose and could drive again. I'd learned to not play this song while driving 🥲. And despite bumps in the road that I had with a religious cult and then atheistic college, I still believe in the Divine spirit. Amazing that my experience sounds like how Moby imagined the spirit moving in Genesis, and it also brought him to tears. Moby manifested the Divine spirit by sharing this song with us. Music like this is a glorious experience! 🙏 Thank you Moby for this orchestral Reprise. 🙏

[@kcryrine5056]

i think i have a similar postion on religion to you. im happy because i felt that god so strongly in this song and dont have to define them. just light and love

[@grayconnolly007]

I first encountered "God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters" via the movie "HEAT" but the title of the piece always intrigued me, too. I am very grateful for this explainer. I listen to "God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters" frequently.

[@freeman37]

God most certainly exists, or His creative power in this extraordinary music piece.

[@calicoesblue4703]

It’s a Beautiful Song, so Powerful & Touching.

[@oryocca]

thanks for you music!! Moby. from Argentina.👍

[@bererive2411]

Interisting, thanks for sharing♥️

[@Vuelvoalsur99]

Wow , listening to an orchestra perform this song I can see the sky open up and the angels come down .

[@asteroido]

One of the masterpieces of my life.

[@RogerMartinez95]

One of my favorite songs!

[@chrisjones-rd8it]

Moby!!!!! God was talking to us through you! The dog is beautiful and I wish him well. You can still find HIM for HE wants your LOVE - you dont need a religion - Jesus never said you need a religion but you try and be like HIM as best you can and if you stumble its ok HE gets it - HE is one of us and yet still GOD!! love HIM please - put your faith in HIM and do not be ashamed of HIM ! Listen for HIM please - HE is still talking to you - your talent is HIS and you have it for this reason!!!! Remember the thief next to HIM - he figured it out at the last moment - pick HIM - choose well - great song and everyone knows its from GOD even the people who hate HIM

[@MonicaMartella-xq7wf]

One of my favorite songs. ❤

[@garethrice1266]

Great story. It will always remind me of the end sequence shot at LAX at the end of Michael Mann's movie, "Heat".

[@Lynda333]

Beautiful inspiring🙏🙏🙏

[@fish-hawk5903]

I found this video after so many years enjoying this wonderful track. It's thrilling to discover that the same thoughts which always came to me on hearing the music, provided him with the name. 👍

[@evanpetrolle2596]

God Moving Over The Face of The Waters makes me think of a lot of Phillip Glass’ works.

[@mindaugaskliukas8667]

God bless you, moby! Wish You all the happiness and the best health in the world and to keep bringing and sharing Your genius with us!

[@sonofsocrates9899]

Mr Moby how this song brought me to a moment in my life in lake Tahoe as a teen in a cloudy day listening to that very song and watching the clouds part , and light peering through as fingers touching the surface of the lake and land... thank you❤ Also God is dog backwards and I think his barks were him approving lol

[@AztecViking84]

Then Brother you gave me that exact impression with this song. The way you describe your song is the exact way I interpreted it. Absolutely profound and beautiful I can't tell you enough. God spoke through you. God speaks through his creation. Absolutely beautiful bro! For all these years that's what I have pictured. Amazing. It's a beautiful proof if you ask me.

[@kafkatomura2692]

Ты не раз рыдать заставлял. My only love с 90х

[@aadiaadi4837]

Hey Moby , please make Remake of - IN MY HEART , this music make my Soul 😍

[@scottyk5376]

As a Christian (don’t judge and no need to debate)…. This song covers the simplicity of God. Dark to Light…. As well as…. The complexity of God. Dark vs Evil. It’s a beautiful song and never gets old.

[@TopalovIvan]

This song it’s a brilliant., first time and each times when I listen it I feel universe and hove all life is create in this world Thank you for all this! Hope to see you again in Ukraine

[@mrredMavicair]

That brilliant tune you made is such a blessing to us all. Its my funeral song 🎵. Thank you very much. God bless .

[@vamcornejo345]

Wow ...😳 Siempre excelente !!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️

[@codoltube]

I know you may never read this, and that's OK, but I just wanted to thank you for all your music. It has been a big part of my 'life soundtrack" and I will forever remember being in the audience at one of your concerts. Moltes gracies !

[@Lyndanet]

2:01 arpeggios 💚appreciated

[@greatestmiamifan]

It is extremely rare that pieces like this come out of nowhere, they are so unbelievably good that one gets the impression that they are not from this world. Everything about these songs is just right: the soul, the bass line, the mix, the arrangement, the vocals - everything. They take you into another world, let you forget everyday life for a moment, no matter how dark it may be. These pieces have a spirit that makes that possible. And I'm thankful to be able to find such rare gems here, because compared to these dreamlike tracks, what's in the charts is absolute rubbish.... Tracks like this are so much more than just music - they are a spirit, another level, an attitude to life, they have their own soul. If you really fully engage with Tracks like this, it can take you into other realms and give you a different perspective on things. Music like this will not disappoint you if you fully commit to it... Thank you for this incredibly beautiful and fascinating track!!