This is how I remember you, Gil, back in 1990 in Manchester’s Nia Centre, or later at Paris’ temple to the best in music, the New Morning, when you could hear a pin drop as you intoned “The Revolution Will Not be Televised”, when you sat at your keyboards and sang “The Bottle” with a bottle nestling against your feet, but it didn’t matter because the vibration of your voice and the power of your words were enough, were more than enough, to have everyone’s skin trembling with emotion and every heart aching with love for you, the greatest of our time.

And now you are back, with a new album “I’m New Here” (XL Recordings), seeking redemption, peeling off the layers that you thought would protect you but didn’t. Back from the depths of a tormented soul that you now bear to your people, to those who have followed you and mourned you and who still love you, awaiting you with bated breath because your voice, your essence, has not changed, the fire is still there, the same vibration and the same power to move us.

We’ll be seeing you soon here in Barcelona….

Gil Scott Heron, 4 abril 2010 en la Sala Bikini de Barcelona, 5 abril 2010 en la Sala Joy Eslava de Madrid.

SORTEAMOS ENTRADAS para el concierto de Barcelona !!