MAXIMUM JOY
“Stretch”

$150.00 (US)

24” x 36”
71 x 92 cm

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Original Limited Edition Music Poster Print

Designed By Andrew Gavin Hicks

UV Print On 100lb. Gloss Text Paper WITH Greenguard Gold Certified Inks

Carefully Hand Rolled AND Packaged In High Quality Heavyweight Tube

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English post-punk band from Bristol UK, Maximum Joy fused complex percussion, horns,  and basslines into a rough, unpolished mix of acrobatic, avant-garde jazz, funk, afrobeat, disco, and soul, that really shouldn’t have worked.

The band had a short run between 1979-1983, releasing three singles on Y Records in the UK and the most well known single “Stretch” on 99 Records (ESG, Liquid Liquid) in the US.

In ’82, the band released the Adrian Sherwood produced album “Station MXJY” adding legendary producer Nellee Hopper (Massive Attack, Bjork) to the lineup. 

Probably most important for the time, when women in music were coming to the challenge of the previous all male rock model, the bands lead singer, co-founder Janine Rainforth created her own vocal style to match the urgency of the lyrical content: “Stay positive, stay strong!/Hold safe, hold straight/Don’t terminate, no end!”.

Despite their often political messaging, website Ransom Note points out Maximum Joy “were a dance band first and foremost, with a raucous disco pulse, blasts of brass and yelping, And chanted vocals that lived up to the band’s name.“