To mark the one year anniversary of her work Secret Passage, Voluminous Arts founder Gavilán Rayna Russom revisits its themes through an in-depth investigation of the industrial development of her birthplace of Providence, Rhode Island. The album Secret Passage is an archive of Rayna’s memories of Providence’s abandoned East Side Rail Tunnel. By intertwining research into several threads of her hometown’s complex history with personal reflections on her foundational experiences with mediumship as a child, she presents a constellation of viewpoints from which to engage the East Side Rail Tunnel and its surrounding area. In the process she interrogates and disturbs settler colonial myth-making and the ideas about time and progress that accompany it. Passageways and Portals is an interdisciplinary text offered as a tool to deepen the possibilities of engagement with the music on Secret Passage.

Secret Passage was released as a digital album and limited edition cassette on Voluminous Arts March 10th, 2020 and was reissued as a vinyl 2xLP on Superior Viaduct sub-label W. 25th January 22nd, 2021.