Gil Scott Heron's Dead

and whitey's on the moon.



Rest In Peace brother

NE WHERE

Somehow hadn't made the connection before but Jamie xx of The xx was the producer of GSH's I'm New Here album from the start of the year. I only knew that he was the owner/manager of XL Recordings.

Anyway - apparently he's just done a remix album of I'm New Here called We're New Here, which is available for listening and downloading purposes right aboot hyar. Might actually go listen to some of The xx now, having dismissed them out of hand previously.

Chris Cunningham's 'audio visual remix' of Gil Scott Heron

Chris Cunningham has made an 'audio visual remix' of Gil Scott Heron's song 'New York is Killing Me' which he has just premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

 "As Cunningham explained, he has been recording train sounds from outside his U.K. apartment for ten years, and for this piece he replaced 90% of the Scott-Heron’s musical track with these train sounds and environmental recordings, pitch-shifting and harmonizing them to create a “musique concrete” version of the original composition"

Here is an article to tell you all about it. It's good to hear that Chris is using his considerable talents to bring us music as well as video nowadays, look forward to hearing more . . .

Here's a one screen version of what he premiered (the original had three), it's awesome. At the time of writing, it's taking ages to play so you might want to give it a while to load if you can't be arsed with the stuttering . . .

 

http://www.theonion.com/articles/yes-sweetie-mommys-heard-of-gil-scottheron,11141/