Chance Meeting
Friday February 17th, 2023 with Heavy Ben
Black History Month: Julius Eastman's "Femenine"

Chance meeting on a chamber collective of accumulation and disintegration While composer Julius Eastman received little critical attention during his lifetime, his contribution to Minimalism and visionary compositions that explored Black and gay identity have finally started to become recognized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Eastman Originally recorded in 1974, "Femenine" was only discovered in 2016. Featuring the S.E.M. Ensemble – a group co-founded by Eastman at SUNY Buffalo – this glorious, slow-building piece sounds at times playful and heartrending. https://pitchfork.com/news/julius-eastmans-femenine-released-on-vinyl-for-first-time/ Today we're listening to a 2021 performance of "Femenine" by Los Angeles group Wild Up. https://www.wildup.org/ https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/wild-up-julius-eastman-vol-1-femenine/ RIYL: Arthur Russell, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski