"We're New Here" -- Well, not really...

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. 

Here's Home Is Where The Hatred Is from 1971, from his album Pieces of a Man: 

 

He was also responsible for The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

 

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