Kukuruz Quartet
Julius Eastman: Piano Interpretations (CD 306)
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Julius Eastman: Piano Interpretations
Kukuruz Quartet
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7640120193065
ITK 155046
CD 306
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The Kukuruz Quartet was first seen and heard making their contribution to a production at the Zurich Schauspielhaus. Kukuruz was engaged with notated classical music, advanced new music, with jazz and improvisation. 2014 Kukuruz started their involvement with Julius Eastman and his musical works. 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."
PERSONNEL:
PHILIP BARTELS, piano
DURI COLLENBERG, piano
SIMONE KELLER, piano
LUKAS RICKLI, piano
Recorded November 29, 30, and December 1, 2017, by Michaela Wiesbeck at Radio Studio, Zürich.
TRACKLIST:
01. Fugue no. 7 (1983)
02. Evil Nigger (1979)
03. Buddha (1984)
04. Gay Guerrilla (1979)
