Kukuruz Quartet - Julius Eastman: Piano Interpretations (2018) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Kukuruz Quartet began their partnership with Julius Eastman and his musical works in 2014. In 2017, their performance at ‘documenta 14’ in the Megaro Mousikis concert hall in Athens earned a standing ovation. They performed works by Julius Eastman: 'Evil Nigger', 'Gay Guerrilla', 'Buddha' and 'Fugue No. 7.’ The recording of these compositions followed in November 2017 on four Steinway D pianos in the main hall of the historic Radiostudio Zürich.

Composer, trombonist and scholar George E. Lewis, who knew Eastman personally and played with him, writes in the liner notes: “This brilliant recording by the Kukuruz Quartet constitutes an important new contribution to the growing corpus of performances of music by the composer, pianist, and singer Julius Eastman (1940-1990), who came to prominence in the experimental music scene of the 1970s and 1980s … On this recording, the Kukuruz Quartet renders Eastman’s spirit of adventure audible and sensuous, exemplifying a new, creolized formation of contemporary classical music that is able to embrace a multicultural, multi-ethnic usable past and thinkable future that can affirm our common humanity in the pursuit of new music“.

Tracklist:

01 - Fugue No. 7
02 - Evil Nigger
03 - Buddha
04 - Gay Guerrilla

Musicians:
Philip Bartels - piano
Duri Collenberg - piano
Simone Keller - piano
Lukas Rickli - piano


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