Gil Scott-Heron Is Back With A Vengeance
20 Feb 2010 04:14 PM / Filed in: Music
It has been 16 years. 16 years that Gil Scott-Heron, the legend who influenced a whole generation of hip-hop artists with his rather unique voice and proto-rap style, hasn't released a new album. And then I'm New Here hits the streets. And it hits them pretty hard.
It's not only the streets that it hits this hard but my ears too. I just dig the voice, the composition and the poetry! Actually, some of the tracks such as Me And The Devil, New York Is Killing Me or I'll Take Care of You make me speechless before this 59 years old man's art.
I got my copy of the album from eMusic.com. Some people criticize the short length of this very fine album, as if it was a scale against which quality can be measured. Unless they are led to believe that more is better, something that mind-tricking marketing has been pushing us to believe in order to rip us off yet another amount of bucks.
Either way, you can't listen to Gill Scott-Heron and stay neutral. Either you'd love it or you'd hate it. But let your ears be the judges, wouldn't you?
Gil Scott-Heron - Me & the Devil by Dubmission
If you are in Paris this spring, he is going to be on concert at the New Morning on May 10!
It's not only the streets that it hits this hard but my ears too. I just dig the voice, the composition and the poetry! Actually, some of the tracks such as Me And The Devil, New York Is Killing Me or I'll Take Care of You make me speechless before this 59 years old man's art.
I got my copy of the album from eMusic.com. Some people criticize the short length of this very fine album, as if it was a scale against which quality can be measured. Unless they are led to believe that more is better, something that mind-tricking marketing has been pushing us to believe in order to rip us off yet another amount of bucks.
Either way, you can't listen to Gill Scott-Heron and stay neutral. Either you'd love it or you'd hate it. But let your ears be the judges, wouldn't you?
Gil Scott-Heron - Me & the Devil by Dubmission
If you are in Paris this spring, he is going to be on concert at the New Morning on May 10!