A new collaboration by Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx of the band The xx has resulted in this fusion of two sounds, with Jamie xx remixing Scott-Heron's first album in thirteen years. Here's one single from the new album, We're New Here:
Although the album name sort of suggests that the musicians are inexperienced, at 61 years of age, Gil Scott-Heron is no newbie. He's a veteran spoken word artist whose albums of the early 1970's (Pieces of a Man and Winter in America) influenced hip hop and soul then, and continues to influence artists today.

