Name: Secret Passage
Brand: Gavilan Rayna Russom

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

W25-14

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Colour

Blue

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-01-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Forte

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

857661008308

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Total Cap

2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / blue

Artist

Gavilan Rayna Russom

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

W25th

W.25TH is the first sub-label of Superior Viaduct, focusing on inventive sounds from contemporary artists as varied and edgy as you have come to expect from us.

With W.25TH, we bring you a curated selection of *contemporary artists* who are pushing boundaries and exploring new sonic territories. Our label is dedicated to showcasing innovative and unique music that challenges conventions and captivates listeners.

From experimental electronic compositions to avant-garde jazz improvisations, our roster features a diverse range of talent that defies categorization. We pride ourselves on discovering hidden gems and supporting emerging artists who are redefining genres and creating groundbreaking works.

Growing up in deindustrialized Providence, Rhode Island of the 1970s and 1980s provided NYC-based composer and interdisciplinary artist Gavilán Rayna Russom access to derelict subterranean spaces including the mile-long East Side Rail Tunnel. The tunnel’s reverberant darkness would produce distinctive sensory effects and host Russom’s formative experiences of interpersonal connectedness, liminality, transgender identity, anti-capitalist desire and state repression.

Secret Passage - an absorbing, memoiristic work by Russom, whose synthesis-based practice fuses information and expression into organic wholes - draws on memories of “unsupervised autonomous zones where I tasted the possibilities of a world without surveillance,” as she writes in the liner notes. Inspired by “this beautifully neglected place,” the music resounds with ghostlike echoes and raw pulsations.

Russom utilizes synthesizers, field recordings and voice to illustrate hallucinatory revelations of the city’s lightless undercarriage. Each track of Secret Passage, originally released as a limited cassette on Voluminous Arts, is dedicated to a friend—entwining personal liberation with collective discovery. The East Side Rail Tunnel has been inaccessible since the 1990s, the result of urban development and gentrification.

Secret Passage

Music GB