Gil Scott-Heron & His Amnesia Express - Legend In His Own Mind [Indie Exclusive Ltd Green Vinyl]

MIG MUSIC

£30.58

Cat. no: MIG02973
Format: LP Indie Exclusive Ltd Green Vinyl
Barcode: 885513029737
Release Date: 28 Jul 2023
Genre: Soul/R&B

Critics in the early 1970s called Gil Scott-Heron the most important Black voice since Martin Luther King Jr and described him as a black Bob Dylan. "His poetry is with much muscle, with stiletto humor, with street talk, much of it justifably angry and accurate," the New York Times wrote in 1975, marveling at the angry man from the Bronx.

No wonder that decades later Scott-Heron was celebrated as the "Godfather of Rap". Born in Chicago, the musician, poet and pugnacious activist for human rights himself lived for years in the Bronx. Returning to his black roots, he died May 27, 2011, in New York's urban district Harlem.

His legacy includes a fantastic concert Gil Scott-Heron gave with his band at the Schauburg Theater in Bremen (Germany) on April 18, 1981. The technicians of Radio Bremen were on site and recorded this ecstatic show.

Gil's son Rumal Rackley on the release of this concert: "This album from a 1983 concert captures the spirit that permeated every performance throughout Gil Scott-Heron's travels in the US and abroad. From Europe to Asia to Australia to Africa, his work resonates at the heart and soul level."

Live album of the unforgettable American soul/jazz singer, poet and civil rights activist Gil Scott-Heron (* April 1, 1949 in Chicago, + May 27, 2011 in New York), celebrated by the New York Times as "Godfather Of Rap".

112 minutes of exciting live atmosphere, captured by Radio Bremen in 1983, sonically refned by the mastering of Johannes Scheibenreif also available on 2LP and ltd. 2LP (trans. green)

LP Indie Exclusive Ltd Green Vinyl Tracks: We Almost Lost Detroit / Angola, Louisiana / three Miles Down / B-Movie / A Legend In His Own Mind / Winter In America / Shut 'Em Down / Washington D.C. / The Bottle / Johannesburg

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