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This is not a Disco record. The title deliberately troubles the music biz’s incessant tendency to hierarchize genre classification over the experience of listening. If you must categorize these mutant sounds think of them as a proposed alternate score for those long, caffeinated sessions in Abby Sciuto’s forensics lab, the soundtrack to a heavy workout in the Westchester Danger Room or perhaps the musical accompaniment to deep body investigations of your own ancestral memories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat this record really is, and why it’s called Disco has to do with the layering of time and life energy present in the spaces where we have traditionally danced to music which are sometimes called Discos. 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Through rhythm and frequency, organized over time, this music blurs the veil between the living and the dead inviting those who move to it to connect with experiences beyond that false binary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat you have here is another fantastic Black Meteoric Star record, as always made without multitracking or overdubbing, recorded directly from single live takes. It is is utterly consistent with all that name has come to mean, but on \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDisco \u003c\/i\u003eBlack Meteoric Star’s vision has been allowed to expand into an almost mythologically epic space. Ancestral time works differently. Settle in and absorb the frequencies. 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Rayna\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e has released a ton of music on DFA under aliases like Gavin Russom, Delia and Gavin, Black Meteoric Star and The Crystal Ark, and she's also been a member of LCD Soundsystem. She's since released music on a bunch of other labels (all of it very good!) and started Voluminous Arts in 2017.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eLearn more about Voluminous Arts \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.voluminousarts.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.voluminousarts.com\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1631309726561000\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNEYQuKJYxQdP-oc3oB_TysmPAFhBA\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOfficial blurb on this one from Rayna herself below...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePink vinyl with a xeroxed cover. Digital download codes to be provided after purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e**\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The \u003ci\u003e3 Love Songs \u003c\/i\u003eEP comes out of a live show I did at a house party. I grew up and came of age playing shows in people's houses but hadn't done it in a while. My good friends L'Amour Bleu, a New York based band I'm a big fan of asked me to play with them at their record release party. It would have been impossible to bring my normal equipment and perform my normal Black Meteoric Star set so I decided to create something stripped down and simple that would require a minimal amount of gear. Black Meteoric Star live shows often include vocal elements that don't appear on the record, but some of those elements began to creep into more recent recordings such as \"No Map\" on \u003ci\u003eThe Xecond Xoming of Black Meteoric Star \u003c\/i\u003eand the two poems I read on the \u003ci\u003eNo More White Presidents \u003c\/i\u003eSoundtrack. This stripped down and more \"punk\" incarnation gave me an opportunity to formalize and expand on these vocal elements. I was just beginning to truly awaken to and accept my trans feminine identity and grasped onto the idea of a love song that, defying convention, spoke about my relationship with my inner world and the elemental forces around me rather than a cherished \"other\", imagined or real. After performing at the event I felt the \"songs' were strong enough to record and the result was this EP. As with all Black Meteoric Star music these are live takes to cassette tape with no multitracking or editing.\"\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DFA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41075787038889,"sku":"VOL002","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/2493\/2521\/products\/BMS-3LoveSongs.jpg?v=1629313772"},{"product_id":"black-meteoric-star-no-more-white-presidents-soundtrack-cassette","title":"Black Meteoric Star - No More White Presidents Soundtrack Cassette","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1400555174\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/voluminousarts.bandcamp.com\/album\/vol001-no-more-white-presidents-film-soundtrack\"\u003eVOL001 - No More White Presidents Film Soundtrack by Black Meteoric Star\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e DFA is thrilled to now offer releases from \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/voluminousarts.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVoluminous Arts\u003c\/a\u003e, the new label from Gavilán Rayna Russom, in our online store. Rayna\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e has released a ton of music on DFA under aliases like Gavin Russom, Delia and Gavin, Black Meteoric Star and The Crystal Ark, and she's also been a member of LCD Soundsystem. She's since released music on a bunch of other labels (all of it very good!) and started Voluminous Arts in 2017.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eLearn more about Voluminous Arts \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.voluminousarts.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.voluminousarts.com\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1631309726561000\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNEYQuKJYxQdP-oc3oB_TysmPAFhBA\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOfficial blurb below...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDigital download codes to be provided after purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e**\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack Meteoric Star's original soundtrack for the film \"No More White Presidents\" unofficial cat# VOL001, the first release on Voluminous Arts. Sprawling across each 30-minute side of this cassette are tape saturated and distorted sounds from the depths of BMS’s well. Distinctions between “track” and “interlude” are blurred. Poetry emerges from surging lagoons of synthesizer sound and beats push forth from noise.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo More White Presidents is a multi-layered abstract film by Gavilán Rayna Russom. She began the film in 2015 and after working on it gradually over two years completed it in January of 2017. It is the first formal occurrence of the “flash film” technique that now forms the central structural device of her filmmaking practice. This technique has connections to both compositional techniques such as serialism and chance operations and craft technologies such as beading, braiding and weaving. The film engages the failures of capitalism via an extended meditation on the different forms of unreconciled dead its fallout has accumulated.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DFA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41075820298409,"sku":"VOL001","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/2493\/2521\/products\/BMS-NoMoreWhitePresidents.jpg?v=1629314401"},{"product_id":"gavilan-rayna-russom-trans-verberation","title":"Gavilán Rayna Russom - Trans-Verberation Cassette","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eDFA is thrilled to now offer releases from Voluminous Arts, the new label from Gavilán Rayna Russom, in our online store. Rayna has released a ton of music on DFA under aliases like Gavin Russom, Delia and Gavin, Black Meteoric Star and The Crystal Ark, and she's also been a member of LCD Soundsystem. She's since released music on a bunch of other labels (all of it very good!) and started Voluminous Arts in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eLearn more about Voluminous Arts \u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.voluminousarts.com\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1631309726561000\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNEYQuKJYxQdP-oc3oB_TysmPAFhBA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voluminousarts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote data-start=\"327\" data-end=\"4934\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"795\" data-end=\"1507\"\u003eLong ago, one of her central fascinations was the story and writings of Saint Teresa of Ávila. She sought these out after being shown Bernini’s sculptural rendering of St Teresa’s experience of being penetrated by the Holy Spirit in an art history class in the early 90’s. The mix of religious ecstasy, sexuality and attention to detail in the sculpture lodged deeply in her consciousness. As a deeply spiritual and often extremely solitary and private person, her love of the story that animated Bernini’s hand has continued to grow throughout her life, especially after multiple visits in the late 90’s and early 2000’s to the chapel of Santa Maria de la Vittoria in Rome where the sculpture is currently kept.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1513\" data-end=\"1803\"\u003eTransverberation sees her returning to that story as a sober woman in her mid 40’s, initiated into several spiritual traditions that specifically work with the energy of saints. The 9 works that comprise this release are also informed by her experiences of quarantine and social distancing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1809\" data-end=\"2538\"\u003eAs a sober person with much experience of the psychedelic, Rayna’s connection with and development of spirituality as an expansive, living energy has been vital. The idea that intimacy with god could have a sexual dimension, or could even be contextualized by sexuality has been an important component of this connection and development, one that sets the experiences of the divine she sonically describes on Transverberation very far from the staunch conservatism of Chistinaity in its colonial forms. Rayna’s spirituality affirms the body and all of its desires and fantasies, and it was for this reason that St Teresa’s writing, and the fantastical and erotic webs it weaves spoke to her and continues to be a reference point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2544\" data-end=\"3049\"\u003eIt became a method of survival and sustainability. Engagement with another individual, although welcomed, was not necessary to experience connection with this source. It was simply one manifestation of it. At the center, anchoring her during this time, which continues to unfold, was the knowing that her creator could be as near to her as she was willing to have that energy be, and that included both its admission into her body and the opening of that energy force to her body’s deepest sexual desires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3055\" data-end=\"3652\"\u003eTransverberation describes an embodied and self-determined spirituality, one that embraces and entwines with rich and creative sexualities rather than compartmentalizing them. This avenue of spiritual experience connects with the lives of the Saints, especially St. Teresa, not through the gateway guarded by the church but directly through the vinculum of the ecstatic. Its sonically immersive descriptions map a spirituality that reclaims ritual and resides within the sexual as a communion with divine creative forces and their residues that manifest in nature, resistance and the spirit world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3658\" data-end=\"4934\"\u003eAs both a digital album with tracks separated and discreet, or as a cassette tape where they blend together into a contiguous landscape on each side, the album unfolds itself like a rosary, reminiscent of St Teresa’s concept of the interior castle in which deepening experiences of prayer lead one through a complex of mansions where increasingly profound modes of connection become possible. Sounds, more spun than woven, evoke echoing hallways, intimate breaths, silent faces and disembodied voices. In ringing tones one hears and feels not only the reverberant bell but the wand that strikes it and the grip of the hand that holds the wand. There are moments of wailing, mourning, screaming, bleeding, cumming, dying and birthing. This passionate energy, although it celebrates the fluidity of sexuality, does not pursue transgression as much as it proposes that the strictures that religion, in collusion with capital and the state, put on sexuality are themselves transgressions against the body. Through sound, composed in time, Transverberation constructs another type of interior architecture, one in which the supervision and punitive prudishness of colonialism are absent, and an unconditionally loving, gorgeous, horny and perverse divine power is palpably present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"DFA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41216076284073,"sku":"VOL011","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/2493\/2521\/products\/VOL011.jpg?v=1630611329"},{"product_id":"delia-gonzalez-gavin-russom-the-days-of-mars-2xlp","title":"Delia Gonzalez \u0026 Gavin Russom - The Days of Mars 2xLP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide A\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Rise\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide B\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. 13 Moons\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide C\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. 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