{"product_id":"secret-passage","title":"Secret Passage","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrowing 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,\u003cbr\u003eliminality, transgender identity, anti-capitalist desire and state repression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSecret Passage\u003c\/i\u003e - 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussom utilizes synthesizers, field recordings and voice to illustrate hallucinatory revelations of the city’s lightless undercarriage. Each track of \u003ci\u003eSecret Passage\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W25th","offers":[{"title":"Blue | LP | x2","offer_id":50846193090891,"sku":"1109467","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3b4fb2d2-7f1d-4c27-a709-88e3b582c5c6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1731748045","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/secret-passage","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}