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Gil Scott-Heron - Moving Target (1982) [1992, Reissue]

Posted By: BlondStyle

Date: 4 Nov 2022 21:47:56

"Moving Target" is a studio album by American spoken-word poet and blues musician Gil Scott-Heron. The album, released on Arista in 1982, was to be his last for more than a decade. On "Moving Target", Scott-Heron and his "Midnight Band" recorded their "typical, tastefully jazzy R&B and funk grooves", though flavored with "more exotic sounds" and influenced by reggae (there are echoes of Bob Marley in some songs). The final song, the almost ten-minute long "Black History/The World", is in part a spoken-word performance by Scott-Heron ending with a "plea for peace and world change". The album, co-produced by Malcolm Cecil, was released in September 1982.

~Wikipedia

Gil Scott-Heron's last proper album for more than a decade, Moving Target was recorded after a period of intense touring (hence the title) and, perhaps understandably, finds the Midnight Band playing a larger role than usual. It also may reflect the group's travels, as the typical, tastefully jazzy R&B and funk grooves like set-opener "Fast Lane" and "Explanations" are supplemented with more exotic sounds. Like Stevie Wonder, for whom he and the Midnight Band opened a tour in 1980, Scott-Heron and his bandmates were experimenting with reggae. "No Exit" has clear echoes of Bob Marley, while "Ready or Not" is a sultry island jam. Both tunes also had themes more personal than political, a shift noticeable elsewhere on the album (even "Washington D.C.," with its seemingly obvious subject, is as much about the resilient spirit of D.C.'s citizens as it's about the city's politicians). That's somewhat surprising, given that Scott-Heron had recently enjoyed success with "B-Movie," a pointed attack on then-president Ronald Reagan. But "Blue Collar" is a populist manifesto that gives shout-outs to working folks in a variety of professions across the fruited plain before concluding with the dispirited chorus, "There ain't no place we ain't been down," and "Black History/The World" offers nearly ten minutes of Afro-centric theorizing, beginning with a spoken introduction that hearkens back to Scott-Heron's sarcastic, poetic beginnings and ends with a simple some would say simplistic plea for peace and world change.

~Review by Dan LeRoy

Release of the album: 1982, September [LP Arista Records, Cat.# AL 9606, USA]
Release of this CD: 1992 [CD Arista/BMG Music (Germany), Cat.# 254 921 / UPC: 4007192549214]
℗ 1982 Arista Records, Inc. © 1992 BMG Music.
Distributed by BMG. A Bertelsmann Music Group Company.
Printed and Made in Germany

Credits:

Alto Saxophone – Vernon James
Art Direction – Donn Davenport
Bass – Robert Gordon
Drums – Kenny Powell
Electric Piano – Gil Scott-Heron (tracks: 2)
Flute – Vernon James (tracks: 6)
Guitar – Ed Brady
Keyboards – Glen Turner
Percussion – Larry McDonald
Photography By – John Form
Producer – Malcom Cecil
Producer, Vocals – Gil Scott-Heron
Tenor Saxophone – Carl Cornwell (tracks: 2, 3, 7), Ron Holloway
Trumpet – Harry Kim (tracks: 2), Kenny Sheffield
Written-By – Gil Scott-Heron (tracks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), Larry MacDonald (tracks: 6), Robert Gordon (tracks: 1)

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01. Fast Lane (04:54)
02. Washington D.C. (04:20)
03. No Exit (04:05)
04. Blue Collar (05:45)
05. Explanations (04:12)
06. Ready Or Not (04:33)
07. Black History / The World (09:42)

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