Red Hot has released its latest project, the concept album TRAИƧA. With production beginning in 2021, and over 100 artists contributing, TRAИƧA marks a spiritual journey across 8 chapters and 46 songs, spotlighting the gifts of many of the most daring, imaginative trans and non-binary artists working today. It softens the edges of the world we know, and invokes powerful dreams of the futures that might one day thunder from its cracks.

After the October release of TRAИƧA: Selects – a selection of tracks from the larger project available on vinyl, Red Hot has announced a pre-order for the full TRAИƧA box set. The tinted acrylic package will contain six LP’s, a 32-page full color booklet of photographs, liner notes, essays and lyrics, and six individual LP jackets featuring original artwork which can be rearranged to be visible through the translucent packaging. The featured artists include Evangeline AdaLioryn, Female Pentimento, Osinachi, Tosh Basco, Greer Lankton, Michael Bailey-Gates, and Pippa Garner.

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 TRAИƧA 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.

As they began inviting musicians to contribute to TRAИƧA, 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 TRAИƧA’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.”

TRAИƧA
Tracklist
Red Hot

Chapter I – Womb Of The Soul

01 Midnight Moon Pool
Mary Lattimore + Laraaji + MIZU + Jamal Shakeri
02 You Don’t Know Me
Devendra Banhart + Blake Mills + Beverly Glenn-Copeland
03 How Sweet I Roamed
Jeff Tweedy + claire rousay
04 Same Train
Heart Shaped + Christian Lee Hutson

Chapter II – Survival

05 STAR
Ana Roxanne + Nsámbu Za Suékama
06 Please Tell Me
Lightning Bug
07 Make ’em Laugh
Benét + Faye Webster
08 Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying
Julien Baker + Calvin Lauber (feat. SOAK, Quinn Christopherson)
09 Rumblin’
Soft Rōnin (feat. Frankie Cosmos)
10 Deeper Understanding
Hand Habits (feat. Bill Callahan)

Chapter III – Dark Night

11 Under the Shadow of Another Moon
Hunter Schafer + Cole Pulice
12 Blush
Lucy Liyou (feat. Grouper)
13 Is It Cold In The Water?
Moses Sumney (feat. ANOHNI)
14 Know Who You Are At Every Age
Anajah + Gary Gunn
15 Is It Over Now?
Niecy Blues (feat. Joy Guidry)

Chapter IV – Awakening

16 Something Is Happening And I May Not Fully Understand But I’m Happy To Stand For The Understanding
André 3000
17 Come Back Different
Nina Keith (feat. Julie Byrne, Taryn Blake Miller)
18 Song To The Siren
Rachika Nayar (feat. Julianna Barwick, Cassandra Croft)
19 Love Hymn
Arthur Baker (feat. Pharoah Sanders)
20 People Are Small / Rapture
L’Rain + Voices from the NYC Trans Oral History Project

Chapter V – Grief

21 We’ve Been Through So Much
Jlin + Moor Mother
22 My NameKara Jackson + Ahya Simone + Dirty Projectors
23 Point of Disgust
Perfume Genius + Alan Sparhawk (Low)
24 In Another Life
Lomelda + More Eaze
25 Pink Ponies
Teddy Geiger + Yaeji
26 A Survivor’s Guilt
Yaya Bey

Chapter VI – Acceptance

27 Just Last Night
Helado Negro + Eileen Myles
28 Feel So Different
Ezra Furman + Sharon Van Etten
29 Mourning Dove
Gia Margaret
30 Feel Better
Adrianne Lenker
31 Any Other Way
Allison Russell + Ahya Simone
32 Down Where The Valleys Are Low
Asher White + Eli Winter + Caroline Rose
33 TM
Fleet Foxes + Cole Pulice + Lynn Avery
34 Querube
AV María + SKY + Belina Rose

Chapter VII – Liberation

35 Within Without
Green-House + Kelela
36 Aaron
Cassandra Jenkins + Bloomsday + Babehoven
37 Young Lion
Sade Adu
38 You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
Moses Sumney + Lyra Pramuk + Sam Smith
39 I Feel Free
Sparkle Division (feat. Pepper MaShay)
40 Many Ways
CLARITY (feat. Clairo)

Chapter VIII – Reinvention

41 Get Free
Nico Georis + KB Brookins
42 Wolf Like Me
Bartees Strange + Anjimile + Kara Jackson
43 Surrender Your Gender
Laura Jane Grace (feat. Lee Ranaldo, Jayne County, Kathi Wilcox, Jay Dee Daugherty, Am Taylor)
44 I Would Die 4 U
Lauren Auder + Wendy & Lisa of the Revolution
45 Always
Time Wharp + Elizabeth & Beverly Glenn-Copeland
46 Ever New
Sam Smith + Beverly Glenn-Copeland

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