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Julius Eastman, Vol. 5: Gay Guerrilla | Wild Up, Christopher Rountree, Julius Eastman | Wild Up

Julius Eastman, Vol. 5: Gay Guerrilla by Wild Up, Christopher Rountree, Julius Eastman, releases 19 June 2026 1. No. 1, Silence 2. No. 2, All Together 3. No. 3, The Lessing Is Miracle 4. No. 4, Melt To and Back Again 5. No. 5, Dies Irae 6. No. 6, A Mighty Fortress 7. No. 7, C#mb7 8. No. 8, Always Making New Inversions Wild Up’s latest entry in their decade-long, multiple-time GRAMMY-nominated compendium on the late American composer and polymath Julius Eastman is Gay Guerrilla, a provocative and epochal work that sanctifies queerness and envisions a genuine revolution of gay liberation. As Eastman shared in remarks preceding Gay Guerrilla’s 1980 premiere: “If there is a cause — and if it is a great cause — those who belong to that cause will sacrifice their blood, because, without blood, there is no cause. So, therefore, that is the reason that I use gay guerrilla, in hopes that I might be one, if called upon to be one.” On this release, Wild Up draws out the compositional charac…