Wild Up Announce New Julius Eastman Album, Share Song: Listen

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Wild Up, the Los Angeles music collective led by artistic director and conductor Christopher Rountree, have announced a new album of Julius Eastman recordings. The album—Julius Eastman, Vol. 4: The Holy Presence—is out June 21 via New Amsterdam. Listen to Wild Up’s new take on Eastman’s “Our Father” below.

The Holy Presence is Wild Up’s fourth volume of Eastman recordings, following 2021’s Femenine, 2022’s Joy Boy, and 2023’s If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich? The new album, according to a press release, finds the ensemble playing Eastman’s “lesser-known works that represent a mystically charged and spiritually reflective vein of his dynamic catalog.”

Julius Eastman, Vol. 4: The Holy Presence:

01 Our Father
02 Piano 2
03 Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc
04 The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc