Stay On It

For the first time, the original recordings by Julius Eastman will be available as a limited edition LP of 500 copies from our newly improved Week—End Records label. Released on the occasion of the performance of “Stay On It” at the opening of the Week-End Fest 2021 on October 8. This is a vinyl only release – The digital album is not included
In 1973, Stay on It turned the coordinates of avant-garde music on its head. It is minimal, but unashamedly groovy; it is open to improvisation, grants performers all the freedom they could need, but it isn’t jazz and never slips into the non-committal. It is open to theatrical and performative elements, but also to poetic-lyrical ones
Cut to 1981. Eastman releases The Holy Presence of Joan d‘Arc. Where has the lightness gone? The relationship to pop music? The love for the musicians who have to develop the piece during its performance? It sounds like heavy metal: forceful, dark, urgent, sawing—and then plaintive, heartbreaking