Moving Target | ||||
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Released | September 1982 | |||
Recorded | March–June 1982 | |||
Length | 37:33 | |||
Label | Arista | |||
Producer | Malcolm Cecil, Gil Scott-Heron | |||
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Moving Target is a studio album by American spoken-word poet and blues musician Gil Scott-Heron.
The album, released on Arista in 1982, was to be his last for more than a decade. On Moving Target, Scott-Heron and his "Midnight Band" recorded their "typical, tastefully jazzy R&B and funk grooves", though flavored with "more exotic sounds" and influenced by reggae (there are echoes of Bob Marley in some songs). The final song, the almost ten-minute long "Black History/The World", is in part a spoken-word performance by Scott-Heron ending with a "plea for peace and world change". [2]
The album, co-produced by Malcolm Cecil, [3] was released in September 1982 on LP (#204921), and issued as a CD in February 1997, under the same number. [4] Robert Christgau gave the album a B. [3]
All tracks composed by Gil Scott-Heron; except where indicated