Bleep

First released for Record Store Day 2014, XL Recordings have now made the digital copies of this posthumous collection of Scott-Heron recordings available. The cuts on the record were produced by Richard Russell at the same time as Gil Scott-Heron was putting together I’m New Here. The LP is made up of stripped-back renditions of Gil’s music spanning from 1971 to 1994. Russell described the LP as "carefully curated (and) an excellent introduction to his previous output”. While the LP was release after the death of Scott-Heron it sounds somehow brand new. The idiosyncrasies of his unique sound come to the fore on timeless ballads like Your Daddy Loves You and Blue Collar. His vocals sound fragile but beautifully assured. The record also includes a number of spoken interludes where Gil’s in-the-studio wisdom provides a glimpse even further in to one of music’s most intriguing and ageless figures.