I spent much of last weekend watching the YouTube stream of the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, consisting mostly of raucous rock and rap acts e.g. the crowd surfing singer from Cage the Elephant.
And then to resume that intensity level today, it was the late Julius Eastman although probably in one of his more restrained works, especially the prelude.
The second track better captures that festival spirit:
..a reminder to those who think they can destroy liberators by acts of treachery, malice, and murder. . . .[L]ike all organizations, especially governments and religious organizations, they oppress in order to perpetuate themselves. Their methods of oppression are legion. But when they find that their more subtle methods are failing, they resort to murder. Even now in my own country, my own people, my own time, gross oppression and murder still continue.
youtube: ain't no rest for the wicked video by cage the elephant cage the elephant crowd surfing outside lands festival
wikipedia: julius eastman crowd surfing outside lands aka the sunset district in sf oppression
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