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My friend Theo Jemison, whose beautiful work I’ve featured here often, sent over this footage of Gil Scott Heron shortly before he passed away. There’s something so intimate about the way it’s shot, it makes you feel as though you were in the room, like an invented memory, or the memories of other gigs past joining up to take you a short leap in to the El Rey that night.
Whilst obviously Gil was a performer of the very best kind – honest, warm, sincere and musically very gifted – this kind of film makes me so grateful for film makers who are there to capture those moments for posterity. I don’t know how I would describe artists like Gil to my future kids with just their music to rely on; the next generation will be so much more visual than I, and I wonder how it will translate, but to have a little of the essence of the great and important voices of history preserved in cinematic moments like these gives me hope they will continue to live on vividly.
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ACOCD x 1 – Onra Ft T3
Agua Riddim – Seiji
Alphabet Soup – Raekwon
Back Home – Gold Panda
The Blooming – Oddisee
Computa Love – B.Bravo
The Day – The Roots Ft Blu, Phonte & Patty Crash
Dilla*Shine – J.Dilla Ft Robert Glasper & Zynzelay
Everybody Loves The Sunshine – Seu Jorge & Almanaz
Free – Bilal
General Patton – Big Boi
I’ll Kill Her – Cee Lo Ft Me & Lonan The Destroyer
Ihopeuknowimwatchingjune – Dâm Funk
In The Whirl Emote – Carlos Y Gaby
Is It? – Cee Lo
Large On The Streets – Vado
Lookin 4 Ya – Big Boi Ft Andre 3000 & Sleepy Brown
Malako (Live) – Samba Mapangala & Occidental Brothers
Morning – Ghostpoet Ft Micachu
Neva Get A Gyal Weh Mi Love So Much – Vybz Kartel
New York Is Killing Me – Gil Scott Heron Ft Mos Def
Ngoma Yakjo (Live) – Gregory Maqoma
Power – Kanye West Ft Dwele
Soon Come – Klashnekoff
Soperfect – Blu
Surprise Hotel (Live) – Fools Gold
There’s So Many – The Stuyvesants
Unbroken, Unshaven – The Budos Band
XXXO – M.I.A. Ft Jay Z
Yekermo Sew – Mulatu Astatke
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