Various Artists // TRAИƧA 2024 (Deluxe Edition) 6xLP

国際非営利団体Red Hot Organizationが、2025年10月にリリースしたコンピレーション6枚組レコードBOXです。

トランスジャンダーへの理解を促すことを目的にジャンルの垣根を超えた100名以上の作家が参加した大ボリュームのBOXです。

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6 x 12" black vinyl.
Presented in individual sleeves with semi transparent orange outer sleeve case. 
This compilation honors pioneering trans and gender non-conforming artists "[carving] spaces of possibilty" throughout history. 

Tracklist:

I. Womb Of The Soul  
1A1. Mary Lattimore + Laraaji + MIZU + Jamal Shakeri - Midnight Moon Pool 3:25
1A2. Devendra Banhart + Blake Mills + Beverly Glenn-Copeland - You Don't Know Me 6:08
1A3. Jeff Tweedy + Claire Rousay - How Sweet I Roamed 2:22
1A4. Heart Shaped + Christian Lee Hutson - Same Train 4:32

II. Survival      
1A5. Ana Roxanne + Nsámbu Za Suékama – STAR 2:55
1B1. Lightning Bug - Please Tell Me 3:17
1B2. Benét + Faye Webster - Make 'em Laugh 3:23
1B3. Julien Baker + Calvin Lauber - Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying 4:13
1B4. Soft Rōnin - Rumblin' 2:42
1B5. Hand Habits - Deeper Understanding 3:59

III. Dark Night 
1B6. Cole Pulice + Hunter Schafer - Under The Shadow Of Another Moon 4:05
2A1. Lucy Liyou – Blush 6:02
2A2. Moses Sumney - Is It Cold In The Water? 3:55
2A3. Anajah + Gary Gunn - Know Who You Are At Every Age 4:09
2A4. Niecy Blues - Is It Over Now? 5:00

IV. Awakening 
2B1 André 3000 - Something Is Happening And I May Not Fully Understand But I'm Happy To Stand For The Understanding 26:21
3A1. Nina Keith - Come Back Different 4:06
3A2. Rachika Nayar - Song To The Siren 6:00
3A3. Arthur Baker - Love Hymn 11:29
3B1. L'Rain + Voices from the NYC Trans Oral History Project with Imara Jones, Mojo Disco, Ceyenne Doroshow & Francois - People Are Small / Rapture 9:14

V. Grief 
3B2. Jlin + Moor Mother - We've Been Through So Much 4:23
3B3. Kara Jackson + Ahya Simone + David Longstreth - My Name 4:32
3B4. Perfume Genius + Alan Sparhawk - Point Of Disgust 2:48
4A1. Lomelda + More Eaze - In Another Life 3:04
4A2. Teddy Geiger + Yaeji - Pink Ponies 3:05
4A3. Yaya Bey - A Survivor's Guilt 2:35

VI. Acceptance 
4A4. Helado Negro + Eileen Myles - Just Last Night 2:56
4A5. Sharon Van Etten + Ezra Furman - Feel So Different 6:37
4A6. Gia Margaret - Mourning Dove 1:42
4B1. AdriAnne Lenker - Feel Better 4:23
4B2. Allison Russell + Ahya Simone - Any Other Way 6:40
4B3. Asher White + Eli Winter + Caroline Rose - Down Where The Valleys Are Low 4:58
4B4. Fleet Foxes + Cole Pulice + Lynn Avery - TM 4:17
4B5. AV María + SKY + Belina Rose - Querube 3:46

VII. Liberation 
5A1. Green-House + Kelela - Within Without 5:20
5A2. Cassandra Jenkins  + Bloomsday + Babehoven - Aaron 3:27
5A3. Sade Adu - Young Lion 4:12
5A4. Moses Sumney + Lyra Pramuk + Sam Smith - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) 5:27
5A5. Sparkle Division - I Feel Free 3:43
5A6. CLARITY - Many Ways 3:16

VIII. Reinvention         
5B1. Nico Georis + KB Brookins - Get Free 6:14
5B2. Bartees Strange + Anjimile + Kara Jackson - Wolf Like Me 4:31
5B3. Laura Jane Grace - Surrender Your Gender 3:47
6A1. Lauren Auder + Wendy & Lisa - I Would Die 4 U 3:21
6A2. Time Wharp + Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland & Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Always 8:24
6A3. Sam Smith + Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Ever New 5:44 
6B1. Jamal Shakeri, Mary Lattimore, Laraaji, MIZU, fkaDust - Midnight Moon Pool (Infinity Mix) 19:58

About this compilation (text excerpt via Red Hot Organization):

"It takes time for new worlds to be born – time and space and slow, sustained belief. It takes courage to grieve the worlds that died before this moment, and those that might have arrived but never did. Transa, the new compilation from storied activist music production organization Red Hot, spotlights the gifts of many of the most daring, imaginative trans and non-binary artists working today. It also softens the edges of the world we know, and invokes powerful dreams of the futures that might one day thunder from its cracks.

Dust Reid, who led production on Red Hot’s 2014 tribute to Arthur Russell, and Massima Bell, an artist and activist based in Los Angeles, began tracing the contours of what would become Transa together in 2021. The two producers originally met at a video shoot in upstate New York, and immediately bonded over their shared love of Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s music, as well as a common devotional connection to nature.

The passing of SOPHIE, the pathbreaking electronic producer who died in January 2021, galvanized the producers and focused their work. “We started talking about all the gifts that trans artists have been giving to the world, and wanted to create a Red Hot project that centered and celebrated those gifts,” says Reid. “We hoped to create a narrative that positions trans and non-binary people as leaders in our society insofar as the deep inner work they do to affirm who they are in our current climate. We felt this is something everybody should do. Whether you identify as trans or non-binary or otherwise, if you took the time to explore your gender, get in touch with the feeling side of yourself, maybe we would have a future oriented around values of community, collaboration, care, and healing.”

Bell and Reid began conceiving of the album as a spiritual journey in eight chapters, a mirror of the original eight-stripe rainbow pride flag. The narrative begins at the earliest awareness of consciousness; moves through awakening, trauma, and grief; and arrives at liberation and continual reinvention. “One thing trans people do all the time is turn grief into possibility,” says Bell. “Living under the ongoing Western binary system, trans people reveal maps of possibility for everyone. It’s something that we can all learn from – expanding the possibility of human life.”

As the producers began inviting musicians to contribute to Transa, the political climate in the United States and across the world started to foment an acute reactionary streak. Legislation denying trans people the hard-won right to medically transition proliferated across the country. Book bans rained down on libraries, stamping shut crucial apertures into trans and queer lives. The necessity of Transa‘s presence in the world started to crystallize.

“The stakes have never been higher,” notes Bell. “We’re seeing a rise in anti-trans hate and vitriol that is particularly being spewed in the United States. I am a trans person from Iowa, one of the states that signed into law a bill that prohibits access to gender-affirming care. It is clearly, materially, a terrifying time.”

Transa features artists from widely dispersed genres and generations, often working in collaboration on a mix of surprising covers and poignant original tracks. Bell and Reid worked from the dreams of the trans artists they invited to participate, pairing many of them with their heroes and inspirations. Trans and cis voices weave together throughout the record. Bill Callahan and Hand Habits harmonize on an acoustic cover of Kate Bush’s prescient 1989 track about falling in love with the internet, “Deeper Understanding,” while Claire Rousay teams with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy to set a William Blake poem to music on “How Sweet I Roamed.” For “Pink Ponies,” electronic artist Yaeji joins singer-songwriter Teddy Geiger in a delicate reverie of a pop song, their voices intertwining among shuffling drums and twinkling keys. Moses Sumney grounds a cover of SOPHIE’s life-affirming composition “Is It Cold in the Water?” in a jazz setting, sending his falsetto arcing over gently strummed guitar chords and shivering cymbals. On one of the record’s most notable contributions, Sade performs an original song dedicated to her trans son, Izaak – a gesture of unconditional acceptance and love without boundary. (Sade agreed to participate in the project after Bell wrote her a personal letter thanking her for her longtime public support of her son.)

Certain artists knew immediately how they wanted to participate in the project. Reid and Bell pitched Devendra Banhart on a cover of “You Don’t Know Me,” the 1972 song Caetano Veloso wrote while in forced exile, as a subversive queer artist, from Brazil’s military dictatorship; Banhart picked up a guitar and started singing them the song right there and then on the call. Others carefully researched their contributions, sifting through archives, stitching together sounds of past and future. For her track “People Are Small/Rapture,” which begins with a cover of an ANOHNI song from the early ’90s, L’Rain sampled voices from the Trans Oral History project. She invites the listener to bear witness to painful memories of decimated communities, suspending those recollections in washes of healing sound.

Transa flows between structured pop songs and effusive ambient tracks, many of which are centered around original poetry written and read by Eileen Myles. André 3000 contributed the project’s longest song, a pulsing, 26-minute instrumental composition whose title is a poem in itself: “Something Is Happening And I May Not Fully Understand But I’m Happy To Stand For The Understanding.” Laraaji, Mary Lattimore, Green-House, Cole Pulice, and Helado Negro all offer pieces that signal transitions between the record’s chapters. These moments give the listener space to pause, reflect, and absorb the prismatic narrative as it unfolds – a radical restructuring of attention in an on-demand media ecosystem."

Artist : Various

Label : Red Hot Organization

cat no : RH-02X