“Bringing jazz samples and live instrumentation to the great poet and musician’s final album.”
In 2010, Gil Scott-Heron released I’m New Here – his first in sixteen years. Produced by XL Recordings’ Richard Russell, it would prove to be Gil’s goodbye – a deeply personal epitaph from an artist whose playful wit and biting criticism of institutional racism and corruption had taken aim at the establishment for over forty years.
I’m New Here was a confessional of sorts, a more introverted record about family and growing old, which laid his vulnerabilities bare. The album’s acoustic recordings, subsequently released by XL, are among the most beautiful in Gil’s discography.” Read more on Vinyl Factory
