TRAИƧA:Selects reintroduces Sade Adu to the world with a song for her son, Izaak, who is trans. The culture-shifting ballad “Young Lion” debuts on this sampler with a tribute to Anohni by L’Rain featuring stories from the NYC Trans Oral History Project. Lauren Auder’s new version of “I Would Die 4 U” with Wendy & Lisa of the Revolution lights the way toward the full concept album as its first single. Beverly Glenn-Copeland's "Ever New" with Sam Smith unrolls a welcome for all generations. A side-length original by André 3000 reflects on all these psychic reunions to mirror the listener. These are milestones of TRAИƧA, the 46-track spiritual journey celebrating trans people out 11/22/24 via Red Hot Org.
Glimpse TRAИƧA’s full epic sonic palette and time travel with this preview. An essential line-in to a restored universe, TRAИƧA:Selects gives gender-expansive waymakers their pasts and futures — and their flowers.
released October 25, 2024
Pre-Order TRAИƧA, the full 46 track digital album by clicking the link below or the TRAИƧA bandcamp page on the right-hand column.
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Storied activist and music production non-profit Red Hot presents its latest project, TRAИƧA out November 22nd. With production beginning in 2021, and over 100 artists contributing, TRAИƧA marks one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken by Red Hot - 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. The album's instantly memorable cover speaks to the tension between nature and constructed environments, and the tension of transness in the western gender binary.
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OUT November 22, 2024
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Produced by Massima Bell & Dust Reid
Co-Produced by Elia Einhorn, Katie Garcia & Terrance Thomas
Executive Producer - John Carlin
Red Hot Crew: Beco Dranoff, Jonathan Galkin, Upendo Kissai, Lyndsay Knecht, Donna Matthew, Agnes Walsh
Grandstand Media: Kate Jackson, Nikolas Soelter, Devin Velez
Co-sign Radio: Jessica Weber, Trevor Morrison
Editorial and Engagement Lead: Lyndsay Knecht
Social Media Strategist: Sam Weisenthal
TRAИƧA Website by Ben Godfrey
Design by Rohan Rege / COLLINS & Olive Panter
(Logo designed with Ryan Bugden)
All tracks mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC
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Side A
1 “Young Lion” – Sade Adu
Sade Adu – Vocals
Suzy Pela – Piano
Madison Claridge – Drums
Engineered by Aaron Taylor Dean and Rob Sellens
Mixed by Tom Elmhirst at PH Studios
Mix Engineer Adam Hong
Produced by Aaron Taylor Dean and Sade Adu
Written by Sade Adu, Aaron Taylor Dean, and Ben Travers
Sade Adu appears courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment
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2 “I Would Die 4 U” – Lauren Auder + Wendy & Lisa
Lauren Auder – Vocals
Engineered & Mixed by Alex Parrish
Wendy & Lisa – Guitars, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Engineered by Ryan Yobs at Henson Recording Studios
Produced by Lauren Auder & Alex Parrish
Written by Prince, Published by Primary Wave
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3 “People Are Small / Rapture” – L’Rain (feat. NYC Trans Oral History Project with Imara Jones, Mojo Disco, Ceyenne Doroshow & Francois)
Performed by L’Rain
Darian Donovan Thomas - Violin
Engineered by Will Radin
Mixed by Andrew Lappin
Produced by Will Radin & Taja Cheek
Additional Production by Ben Chapoteau-Katz
Written by ANOHNI, Published by Downtown Music
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4 “Ever New” – Beverly Glenn-Copeland + Sam Smith
Written by Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Published by Third Side Music
Produced by Rob Moose
Mixed by Mark Yoshizumi
Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Vocals
Sam Smith – Vocals
Vocals Engineered by Mark Yoshizumi at Gary’s Electric
Acoustic Guitar, Tenor Guitar, Ukulele, Electric Guitar, Baritone Guitar, Bass, Piano, Keyboards, Violin and Viola Performed, Arranged & Engineered by Rob Moose
Ahya Simone - Harp
Harp Engineered by Gloria Kaba at Gary’s Electric
Sam Smith appears courtesy of Capitol Records, a division of Universal Music Group
Beverly Glenn-Copeland appears courtesy of Transgressive Records
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Side B
5 “Something Is Happening And I May Not Fully Understand But I’m Happy To Stand For The Understanding” – André 3000
André 3000 - Flutes, Electric Wind Instruments, Pedals, Voice
Carlos Niño - Drums, Percussion, Voice
Deantoni Parks - Computer, Drum Set, Midi Keyboard, Technoself Synthesis
Nate Mercereau - Guitar, Guitar Synth, Pedals, Sampler
Diego Gaeta - Piano
Maia - Voice
Matthewdavid - Mycelial Electronics
Shabaka - Clarinet
V.C.R - Violin with Effects, Voice
Engineered by Ken Oriole
Mixed by Ken Oriole, André 3000 & Carlos Niño
Produced by André Benjamin & Carlos Niño
Additional Mixing and Pre-Mastering by Andy Kravitz
Written by André 3000, Carlos Niño, Deantoni Parks, Nate Mercereau, Diego Gaeta, Matthewdavid, Shabaka, V.C.R
Published by Primary Wave
This piece is comprised of two separate, overlaying, intertwining recordings. The main piece that is running throughout was a Quartet of André, Carlos, Deantoni, and Nate, recorded at Groove Masters in Santa Monica. The piece that comes in and out was a Sextet recording of André, Carlos, Diego, Matthewdavid, Shabaka, and V.C.R, recorded at Shangri-La, with Maia added later, during one of the mixing sessions.
André 3000 appears courtesy of Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
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Special thanks to Lisa Garrett, Roger Davies, Eufaula Garrett, Alex Putman, Joe Taylor, John Miller, Kara Tinson, Melanie Hill, Kevin Held, Brontë Jane, Nick O’Byrne, Ellen Kirk, Kate Albert Sweltz-Reid, Keith Abrahamsson and Mexican Summer, Robbie Chemical & Al Carlson @ Gary’s Electric, Glenn Dicker, Jill Wheeler, Adam Reach, Dave Jackson, Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland, Jess, Tim Dellow, Evangeline AdaLioyrn, Stuart Matthewman, Alex Tepper, Eleanor Petry, Faryal Ganjehei, Sasha Geffen, Arjun Pulijal, Moses Sumney, Charlie Painter, Aviva, Gabriel Florenz, Pioneer Works, Shaun MacDonald, Miles Showell, Nicole David, Noah Klein, Andi Wilson, Judy Silverman, Alex Athanasiou, Third Side Publishing, Secretly Publishing, Sony Music Publishing & Primary Wave Publishing, Adam Shore, Paul Heck, Andres Barbosa, Amy Phillips
