Moving Target

This 1982 funk and soul album from Gil Scott-Heron, engineered and produced by Malcolm Cecil, features lyrics as politically charged and angry as ever, set to a backdrop of jazzy funk and R’n’B. Scott-Heron was stretching out musically a little at the time and the album also features a couple of nice reggae tracks. ’Moving Target’ finishes with a near-ten minute searing musical history lesson that harks back to Scott-Heron’s early spoken word recordings but updated into a languid, low slung digi-funk groove.