Moving Target (Gil Scott-Heron album)


Moving Target is a studio album by American spoken-word poet and blues musician Gil Scott-Heron.

Background, production, release

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. 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".
The album, co-produced by Malcolm Cecil, was released in September 1982 on LP, and issued as a CD in February 1997, under the same number. Robert Christgau gave the album a B.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Gil Scott-Heron; except where indicated
  1. "Fast Lane" - 4:55
  2. "Washington D.C." - 4:13
  3. "No Exit" - 4:08
  4. "Blue Collar" - 5:18
  5. "Ready or Not" - 4:10
  6. "Explanations" - 4:33
  7. "Black History/The World" - 9:42

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