Members tremolounge Posted February 8, 2010 Members Share Posted February 8, 2010 His new album, "I'm New Here" is out tomorrow, 2/9. Pretty powerful video for the first single: [YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE] This man has lived: [YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tremolounge Posted February 8, 2010 Author Members Share Posted February 8, 2010 The album's actually available on iTunes today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beck Posted February 8, 2010 Members Share Posted February 8, 2010 Awesome! I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted February 9, 2010 Members Share Posted February 9, 2010 Very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members spokenward Posted February 9, 2010 Members Share Posted February 9, 2010 His website includes a user's tutorial... There is a proper procedure for taking advantage of any investment. Music, for example. Buying a CD is an investment. To get the maximum you must LISTEN TO IT FOR THE FIRST TIME UNDER OPTIMUM CONDITIONS. Not in your car or on a portable player through a headset. Take it home. Get rid of all distractions.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flemtone Posted February 9, 2010 Members Share Posted February 9, 2010 Great to see, but now nobody's on the moon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tremolounge Posted February 9, 2010 Author Members Share Posted February 9, 2010 Great to see, but now nobody's on the moon! Whitey can't afford to go to the moon anymore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted February 9, 2010 Members Share Posted February 9, 2010 Interesting. What genre does this music ordinarily get filed under? Sounds like he's part of that whole Laurie Anderson/Patti Smith NYC scene... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tremolounge Posted February 9, 2010 Author Members Share Posted February 9, 2010 Sounds like he's part of that whole Laurie Anderson/Patti Smith NYC scene... Quite a ways uptown... Check out his wikipedia entry -- he's been around for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tremolounge Posted February 9, 2010 Author Members Share Posted February 9, 2010 [YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members russrags Posted February 10, 2010 Members Share Posted February 10, 2010 WOW, thanks tremolounge, I made an album with him in 1993 or 94, as I've done a lot of stuff with Malcolm Cecil. Did Malcolm do this album too ... I'm sure he did??? How long has it been since Gil's last album ??? RussNashville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tremolounge Posted February 10, 2010 Author Members Share Posted February 10, 2010 [wikipedia]: Gil Scott-Heron released his new album 'I'm New Here' on independent label XL Recordings on February 9, 2010. Produced by XL label owner Richard Russell, 'I'm New Here' is Scott-Heron's first album in thirteen years.The pair started recording the album in 2007, with the majority of the record being recorded over the last twelve months with engineer Lawson White at Clinton Studios in New York. In 2009, a new Gil Scott-Heron website, gilscottheron.net, was launched with a brand new track 'Where Did The Night Go' made available as a free download from the site. There's a great "Making Of" video that comes with the iTunes album, where Russell talks about introducing samples and stuff to some of the tracks, and Gil really digging it, giving his "blessing" to going further in that direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members russrags Posted February 10, 2010 Members Share Posted February 10, 2010 WOW, looks like I made the last Gil Scott-Heron album since this new one, well maybe not, mine was 93-94??? At any rate, I figured he'd been out of the scene. Man he was one interesting dude to work with. RussNashville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tremolounge Posted February 10, 2010 Author Members Share Posted February 10, 2010 Man he was one interesting dude to work with. I can imagine! Where did you make that album, Russ? NYC or... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members russrags Posted February 10, 2010 Members Share Posted February 10, 2010 I can imagine! Where did you make that album, Russ? NYC or... ? Topanga Skyline Studios in California, I had just bought the Studio at the time, and outfitted it with a Euphonics CS-II console. I'd worked for several years with Malcolm Cecil at Westlake Studios, and Malcolm lives just up the hill from Topanga. RussNashville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jotown Posted February 10, 2010 Members Share Posted February 10, 2010 Interesting. What genre does this music ordinarily get filed under? Sounds like he's part of that whole Laurie Anderson/Patti Smith NYC scene...He was a kind of pre-rap beat poet, and his music was a blend of jazz, blues and street music. Other than being poets, and bit socially aware, I don't find many musical similarities to Patti Smith, or Laurie Anderson. And Heron was speaking Harlem, not Manhattan. And back then those two borroughs were like different planets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hush Posted February 11, 2010 Members Share Posted February 11, 2010 And Heron was speaking Harlem, not Manhattan. And back then those two borroughs were like different planets. Just to a little nit. Harlem is neighborhood of Manhattan and not it's own burrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jotown Posted February 11, 2010 Members Share Posted February 11, 2010 Just to a little nit. Harlem is neighborhood of Manhattan and not it's own burrow.Thanks for correction. Lets say that Harlem and the Village were very different cultures in the late sixties and early seventies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hush Posted February 11, 2010 Members Share Posted February 11, 2010 Lets say that Harlem and the Village were very different cultures in the late sixties and early seventies. No doubt. Totally agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted February 15, 2010 Members Share Posted February 15, 2010 A day or two after I saw this vid, the album popped up on the front page of Rhapsody so I threw it into my everyday playlist (a couple thousand songs). "Me and the Devil" just came on and, after a few days of not hearing it, I didn't recognize it -- until Scott-Heron's voice, crackling with character and experience came on... It's really a terrific track, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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