Gavilán Rayna Russom (@gavilanraynarussom), boss witch at Voluminous Arts, takes the helm of Moods this November with a collection of recordings from study trips she has taken to Cuba that feature Cuban musicians. Having released music extensively under her own name, aliases like Black Meteoric Star, Hail of Arrows and Gavin Russom, and collaborations like Black Leotard Front and The Crystal Ark—as well as touring with LCD Soundsystem—Russom’s approach to music moves past genre, gender, and frameworks, and her acute ears have collected recorded live sounds and music from Cuba for her mix.

For more background on the mix, QnA, and more, head to our archive: https://moods.substack.com/p/moods-53-gavilan-rayna-russom

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We've paired Russom’s mix with a piece from Manuel Mendive, an Afro-Cuban artist whose work considers and encorporates the legacies of Yoruba mythology, colonialism, and the Middle Passage.

For more on Mendive‘s work, we recommend this article and interview with him: www.medicci.com/en/our-artists/manuel-mendive

For more on Russom, follow her here: www.instagram.com/gavilanraynarussom/

Moods 53: Gavilán Rayna Russom

Songwriting credits: Virginia de las Pozas

Lyrics:
I'm full up
Katamari of care
I've got a thirst for that easy solution
Soluble spill, Heavy pour
I'm full up

it's like I need to feel the liquid leave my body
Here it goes; slowly erode
The inroads into psych modes
Neural pathways heavy
I’ve got empathic traffic cones
blocking the way to unload
I'm full up, overgrown

wait for me I’ll de-install, I’ll reboot
I’ll relearn all the ways to be with you
It’s so easy when the going’s good 
I even love it when my cup’s full

Katamari of care

Liquid feat. Axine M

Swaya - Liquid feat. Axine M

Bodyvision w Gavilán Rayna Russom EP1: A Space for Rage. NYC based artist, DJ and Voluminous Arts label founder Gavilán Rayna Russom inaugurates her new Bodyvision series on Mutant Radio Tbilisi with a two hour mix dedicated to sound as a channel for rage. Braiding together noise, ambient, experimental and dance floor sounds, Rayna explores DJ’ing as a grief processing technology.
Sound lives in the body. Rhythm is a key to hidden memories and visions.
Gavilán Rayna Russom’s visionary career in music reverberates expansively at the multiple intersections between experimental and dance floor sounds. Rayna’s creative arc began when she was still in high school - DJing dance parties and distributing home-produced drone and noise tapes - and has carried her through a long-standing relationship with New York’s DFA Records, critically acclaimed releases for LIES, Nation, Curle, LuxRec and Ecstatic Recordings as well as the founding of her own label Voluminous Arts.

Gavilan Rayna Russom Bodyvision Ep 1 Feb 2023

For this month’s Bodyvision show, recorded during the recent solar eclipse and new moon, Gavilán Rayna Russom sets out a sonic landscape that explores and activates music’s ability to bridge and inflect the spectral space between inner and outer worlds.

Bodyvision w Gavilán Rayna Russom EP2: The Scream Within the Whisper, The Whisper Within the Scream

Opening Set @ Celebrate Life, Dope Jams, 11-19-11

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