Published
Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 13:20
- Secret Passage, out March 26th, is an homage to the East Side Rail Tunnel in Providence, Rhode Island, where Russom grew up.
Gavilán Rayna Russom is launching her own label, Voluminous Arts.
Its inaugural release is Secret Passage, out on March 26th, her second solo album as Gavilán Rayna Russom. The record is an homage to the East Side Rail Tunnel in Providence, Rhode Island, where Russom grew up, and the friends and experiences she had there.
"Running for almost exactly one mile beneath the city's streets, the tunnel and nearby Crook Point Bridge were unsupervised autonomous zones where I tasted the possibilities of a world without surveillance," Russom says. "The tunnel was particularly important in my creative development because not only was it a marginal zone apart from monetized spaces of creative consumption, but it also had specific experiential properties. When you got to the middle of it you were in complete darkness, and I learned quickly that when you spend enough time in complete darkness you start to hallucinate, which I liked. The acoustics were also remarkable."
Voluminous Arts will focus on releasing highlighting electronic and experimental artists whose work challenges fixed categories of genre and categorization.
Secret Passage follows Russom's debut solo album from 2019, The Envoy.
Listen to "Shotgun Hits With Boys Who Drum On Metal (For Cheyney)."
Tracklist
01. A Place For Us Among The Ruins (For Alyson)
02. Shotgun Hits With Boys Who Drum On Metal (For Cheyney)
03. Ghosts Wail In Us (For Mike)
04. Sarafina Calls Because The Police Are Beating People (For Brian C.)
05. Fireworks (For Brian T.)
Voluminous Arts will release Secret Passage on March 26th, 2020.
Photo credit: Guarionex Rodriguez Jr.
