#gavin russom

[marie-advanz]

Listen/purchase: Black Meteoric Star aka Gavin Rayna Russom - NO MORE WHITE PRESIDENTS by Black Meteoric Star

[theparanoid]

Gavin Russom - Psychic Decolonization

(2016 EP)

Bandcamp | Soundcloud

[Industrial Techno, Outsider House, Acid Techno]

[alexegan]

Interview / Video / Audio: http://offtherecord.net/phonica-friends-family-mix-series-13alex-egan/ Tracklist: 01. The FLK – We Know Where The Time Goes (Part 1) (Excerpt) [Utter] 02. Cheb Runner – 3097.7 km / 3097.7كم [Oddball Fantasies] 03. Cass. & Niklas Wandt – Schicht um Schicht [Candomblé] 04. DJ Plead – RT3 [Boomkat Editions] 05. Golden Axe – Yaatra [Arma] 06. Zazou / Bikaye / CY 1 – Ey! Yaye [Crammed Discs] 07. Carcass Identity – Things To Forget [Phase Group] 08. Black Merlin – Scape One [Artificial Dance] 09. Waak Waak Djungi – Mother I’m Going [Efficient Space] 10. Luis – Timmy Chalamet [AD 93] 11. Boards Of Canada – In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country [Warp] 12. CiM – Cable Car [Delsin] 13. DMX Krew – Archimedes [Expanding Vision] 14. Internal/External – Trespass [Kode] 15. Single Gun Theory – Open The Skies (Extended Remix) [Nettwerk] 16. Uni Son – Untitled For Now [We Play House] 17. Le Petit – Niente [Maga Circe Musica] 18. Frank Rodas – Ritual (Forthcoming on Utter) 19. J.S.Zeiter – B2 [Expanding Vision] 20. Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom – Relevee (Carl Craig Remix) [DFA] 21. Anatolian Weapons – Acid Research 63 [Byrd Out] 22. Rolando Simmons – Yes It’s That Pluzz [Analogical Force] 23. Submersible Machines – When  Whales Fall [Lunar Disko] 24. Tin Man – Jack It Acid [Acid Test] 25. Akasa – One Night In My Life (Nectar Mix) [WEA] 26. Skatebård – The Bells Of Mist [Balsa Wood] 27. Experimental Products – Glowing In The Dark [Vinyl-On-Demand] 28. Amor Fati – Stanton Carlisle [Forthcoming on Deep Cover #7]* 29. Sepehr – Servants Taunt [Squirrels On Film] 30. Mr. Fingers – Inner Acid (Aleksi Perälä Remix) [Alleviated Records] 31. Biochip – Bremerton [WéMè Records] 32. Alden Tyrell – Shift Cycle [Dub Recordings] 33. Mike Ash – Robotik [Ozone Recordings] 34. Mathew Jonson – Ultraviolet Dream [M_nus] 35. Paradise 3001 – Sunspots (Solenoid Version) [Sound Metaphors] 36. Nathan Fake – Outhouse (Fluffy Mix) [Border Community] 37. Bochum Welt – Radiopropulsive [Rephlex] 38. MNLTH – Meadow [Organic Analogue Records] 39. Misha Sultan – Kaleidoscope [DIG] 40. Hans Berg – A Floor Of Stars [Klasse Wrecks] 41. Böhm – Single Scene [Dolly] 42. Quad – Spires ‘n’ Towers [Casting Shadows] 43. DMX Krew – Orange Cat Milk [Under The Radar] 44. Furyon – Trance Exploder (Trance Out Mix) [Stroom] 45. Vein Melter – When You Feel It (Remix) [La Bella Di Notte] 46. Priori Presents RED – The Hammer [Garmo] 47. A∞x – Ceramic City [Nduja] 48. Modern Art – Hello/Goodbye [Domestica] 49. Steffi Grafs Innere Ruhe – Gute Freizeit [The News Cycle] 50. Krampfhaft – Meanwhile At The Old Warehouse [030303] 51. Black Point – Forest Lore [Out To Lunch] 52. Poly Chain – Cobalt [Die Orakel] 53. Vangelis – Tears In Rain [Audio Fidelity] 54. DJ Lostboi – Little Prince [Self-Released] 55. Piero Piccioni – It Means Love [Dirty] 56. Chris & Cosey – Melancholia [Conspiracy International] 57. Brian Eno – Final Sunset [E.G. Records] 58. Acoustic High-End Research – Nature Ensemble [Running Back] 59. Coil – Strange Birds [Dais] 60. Sandra Cross – The MMs Bar Recordings [Trunk]

[burlveneer-music]

Gavilán Rayna Russom - The Envoy - hot on the heels of Adderall Canyonly’s soundtrack for Philip K. Dick’s classic SF novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, here is an album based on Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness

Transdisciplinary NYC artist Gavilán Rayna Russom beautifully comes into her own with a distinguished solo debut album statement including the voice of Cosey Fanni Tutti and brass arrangements by downtown legend Peter Zummo. After decades exploring her sonic personality in various projects inspired by her deep immersion in NYC’s club and avant-garde scenes, Rayna uses ‘The Envoy’ as a vessel to firm up and convey her personal conclusions on intersections of gender and electronic music. Enriched with complex human experience and key influence from sci-fi writer Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel ’The Left Hand of Darkness’ - a book that strongly resonated with her due to its descriptions of an alien race with multiple sexual characteristics - the album is intended to realign misconceptions of Russom’s prescient early work such as 2005’s ‘The Days of Mars’ LP for DFA, which arguably foreshadowed a rise of beat-less and more ambiguous urges that are now commonplace in contemporary dance music, yet were at the time lumped in with retro-fetishist trends. With ‘The Envoy’ Russom returns to a 2019 music scene that’s better prepared with the politics of an emerging new world, and thus readied for her ideas to take hold in the public consciousness. Unanchored by kicks, yet pulsing in its own ways, the album flows with an underlying elegance from Cosey Fanni Tutti’s spellbinding recital of Russom’s text in ‘Kemmer’, set to an organic, orgiastic writhe of arps and stressed noise, and on thru the free-floating organ scape of ‘Envoy’, to acknowledge more grimly industrial impulses with ‘Strength out of the Dark’ and also a towering highlight of the album in ‘Discipline of Presence’, where Russom’s throbbing mass is hauntingly illuminated by plangent brass arrangement from Peter Zummo (key Arthur Russell collaborator). The 10 minute ‘Winter’ then wraps it all up under a titular reference to Ursula K Le Guin’s novel, placing Russom as a filament of solo piano-playing light within the cold expanse of NYC.

[fallimentiquotidiani]

Oh baby Oh baby You’re having a bad dream Here in my arms Oh sugar You came to me Could all be a bad thing Doing harm

[gaywrites]

Gavin Russom, synth player and technician for the band LCD Soundsystem, came out as a transgender woman in a new interview with Pitchfork.

She says she took some time for self-care after the band’s 2016 tour and had the opportunity to spend time with other transgender women. She’s keeping her same name, but will go by she/her pronouns and begin presenting in a way that feels truer to herself. 

A few excerpts from her interview, of which a portion is written in first person:

I'm 43 and I can identify that once a decade, I made a concerted effort to make my trans identity known. That includes a period of time when I was a child in the ’70s, when I was going through puberty in the ’80s, and then several periods throughout my twenties, thirties, and forties. What makes this time different is that I'm in a stable moment in my life. Working with LCD Soundsystem all last year and then having a solid block of time off to focus on self-care was really important for me. This is what came out of that. I don't like coming out so much as a term, but sometimes it's the only way to say it. [...]

Up until this point, I felt comfortable working with my own gender fluidity, my own identification within the feminine end of the spectrum, and the politics that arise from those things through my music. Retroactively, this is a thread that goes through my entire body of work. It's an interesting way to listen to it if you weren't already getting that.

I feel very blessed because the world that I operate in is relatively open-minded. I mean, the electronic music world can be extremely bro-y and also close-minded and sometimes even worse than maybe a more traditional office job. However, at least where I've found myself, the people who are around me have been very supportive. I still had fears that I might experience consequences, mostly because I know so many trans women who have lost their jobs when they've come out. It's a very unfortunate reality. There was a fear and awareness that my ability to do this really is a privilege—and it shouldn't be, but it is. [...]

It has been a process of paying really deep attention to what's going on with me. I had a very significant moment very early on when I called my bank and the teller said, “Oh sir, thank you so much for calling us.” It's so hurtful, and of course they don't know—they're just looking at a document that has a gender identifier. But it was so powerful to just be enough in my own body to say, “Whoa, that didn't feel good.”

There was legitimately something unmanageable for me about living as a cis man. I was working so hard just to present this image of myself that ran very deeply counter to who I really am. There's nothing theoretical or intellectual about that. It's the physical thing in my body. It felt like there was almost another person constantly walking next to me being like, “Hey, hey, hey, pay attention to me, hey, hey, hey.” To some degree I wish I had been able to work through it sooner, but I'm also very glad that I worked it the way I did. Having gone through 42 and a half years of being in denial and trying to work through this stuff has given me a lot of experience.

Congratulations, Gavin. Thank you for sharing your music and your story. 

[autostraddle]

“Congratulations, Gavin, we’re so happy to see you living your life and being yourself and we’re happy to have you as a sister. We all can’t wait to see what wonderful new things you do now that you don’t have to hide who you are!”   

[papermagazine]

LCD Soundsystem's Gavin Russom Comes Out as a Transgender Woman

[dylansamson]

I Was There

This Week's Assigned Listening LCD Soundsystem : LCD Soundsystem

[musicandlistening]

american dream by LCD Soundsystem

Good Music Monday

An Appetizer

The Plug

Seven years after the fantastic final album This Is Happening, LCD Soundsystem is back! For much of the past year, LCD been touring and headlining music festivals all over and have been met rapturously.

The man behind and in front of the LCD Soundsystem moniker is the helplessly cool and conscientious James Murphy. During his leave of absence, Murphy's unrecorded catalog swelled; fortunately, he decided with a little help from his band and fans and David Bowie to press them to vinyl.

Like their previous albums (Sound of Silver for instance), the fourth LCD Soundsystem album american dream is full of danceable punk. The songs thoughtfully and expertly quip with loss and time spent—always being cool.

Listen With:

Apple Music | Spotify

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Thanks, LCD.

x | o | x

[pornosophical]

On July 13th, the eve of LCD’s headlining set at Pitchfork Music Festival, Russom will DJ publicly for the first time as a trans woman during Femme’s Room, a popular monthly party celebrating femme and queer culture. Russom was asked to DJ the event, held at Chicago’s Berlin nightclub, before the organizers knew she was trans. “Having not said anything about my gender identity or transition, it felt like this amazing synchronicity,” she says, “one of those moments where the universe is tapping you on the shoulder, [saying], ‘It's OK, it's real.’”

LCD Soundsystem’s Gavin Russom comes out as trans

[peterhutchins]

@lcdsoundsystem​ - James Murphy, Nancy Whang, Pat Mahoney, Al Doyle, Gavin Russom, Tyler Pope, Phil Mossman, David Scott Stone, Phil Skarich, J.D. Mark & Jerry Fuchs @ Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, NY on Saturday, April 8, 2017

5 Night Residency For Brooklyn Steel Opening (Night 3) Setlist:

Us v Them Daft Punk Is Playing at My House I Can Change Get Innocuous! You Wanted a Hit Tribulations Movement Yeah Someone Great Home New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Dow

Encore: Tonight Emotional Haircut American Dream

Encore 2: Dance Yrself Clean All My Friends

[spectacletheater]

One night only with Gavin Rayna Russom in attendance: No More White Presidents.

Poster by Lauryn Siegel.