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Brilliant second part to what is shaping up to be an essential retrospective series. 'Buddha (Field)' is THE ONE.
Favorite track: Buddha (Field).
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On June 17, 2022, the acclaimed Los Angeles-based new music collective Wild Up will release Julius Eastman Vol. 2: Joy Boy, the follow-up to last year’s Julius Eastman Vol. 1: Femenine, a record that was hailed “a masterpiece” (The New York Times), “instantly recognizable” (Vogue), “absorbing” (Pitchfork, in its 8.1 review), and “singularly jubilant” (NPR, who placed Femenine among its top 10 records of 2021, across all genres).
Arriving, once more, on New Amsterdam Records, Julius Eastman Vol. 2: Joy Boy is the second entry in Wild Up’s seven-volume anthology celebrating Eastman, the late composer whose musical vision was repeatedly dismissed during its day, but is now being unearthed to critical acclaim. It includes performances of never-before-recorded compositions including “Joy Boy” and “Buddha.”
Christopher Rountree, Music Director / Conductor / Voice
Produced, recorded and mixed by Lewis Pesacov
Engineered by Clint Welander, Lewis Pesacov
Assistant Engineer Nate Haessly
Recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders
Mixed at Ahata Sound
Mastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering, Los Angeles, CA
Album Designer: Andrea Hyde
Cover Photo: Chris Rusiniak (published in Performing the Music of Julius Eastman) cropped for record dimensions
Video by Ian Byers-Gamber
Called “a raucous, grungy, irresistibly exuberant … fun-loving, exceptionally virtuosic family” by Zachary Woolfe of the New
York Times, Wild Up has been lauded as one of classical music’s most exciting groups by virtually every significant institution and critic within earshot....more
supported by 191 fans who also own “Julius Eastman Vol. 2: Joy Boy”
Dearest Arooj, firstly thank you. My brother died this year n what can be said about such loss n sadness. I saw n heard you at The end of the Road in England. I spent many years in India n love all the music, poetry of your heritage. Thankyou Arooj❤️ ben1769
supported by 186 fans who also own “Julius Eastman Vol. 2: Joy Boy”
"Eastman lived his life veering between irreconcilable extremes." Pitchfork has a great article that provides context: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17803-jace-clayton-the-julius-eastman-memory-depot/ Joe Holt
supported by 184 fans who also own “Julius Eastman Vol. 2: Joy Boy”
What a remarkable album this is. Elements of Glass and Reich with deftly disturbing elements of Penderecki, but with the sonority of the saxophone taking these elements into startling new places.
The quality of the playing is astounding, in that the connection between the players is so intuitive it is as though it's the work of one mind. Beauty, hope, fear and chaos endlessly revolving.
This swirling, heady brew is definitely one of my albums of year. Michael Mueller