Sade and André 3000 lead charity album ‘TRAИƧA’

Sade, André 3000, Sam Smith, Julien Baker, Clairo, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, actor Hunter Schafer and Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker are among the more than 100 artists who have contributed to TREATMENTthe latest charity album from the nonprofit Red Hot. The first song to emerge from the eight-chapter, 46-song collection is a cover of Prince’s “I Would Die 4 U” performed by his former Revolution bandmates Wendy & Lisa and British vocalist Lauren Auder.

The album also features guest appearances from Fleet Foxes, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Faye Webster, Perfume Genius, Low’s Alan Sparhawk, Laura Jane Grace, Allison Russell, Bartees Strange, Yaya Bey, Sharon Van Etten and many more. Highlights include Sade’s first new song since 2018, “Young Lion,” and a 26-minute instrumental from André 3000 titled “Something Is Happening and I May Not Fully Understand But I’m Happy To Stand for the Understanding.”

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“It’s hard to be impressed with a cover of a Prince song, especially one of our favorites like ‘I Would Die 4 U,’ but Lauren’s voice and vibrant sensibility spoke to us,” Wendy and Lisa say of their collaboration with Auder. “We were happy to lend everything we could to the project and Lauren to make the song something special. We’re willing to say that Prince might have enjoyed some of the innovation of this version of the song.”

TREATMENT was created by Dust Reid, who produced Red Hot’s 2014 Arthur Russell tribute album, alongside Los Angeles artist and activist Massima Bell. After meeting at a video shoot, “we started talking about all the gifts that trans artists have been giving to the world and we wanted to create a Red Hot project that centered and celebrated those gifts,” Reid says. “We were hoping to create a narrative that positions trans and nonbinary people as leaders in our society as they do deep internal work to affirm who they are in our current climate. We felt like this is something everyone should do. Whether you identify as trans or nonbinary or otherwise, if you take the time to explore your gender (and) get in touch with the emotional side of yourself, maybe we’d have a future oriented around the values ​​of community, collaboration, care, and healing.”

The project is structured as “a spiritual journey in eight chapters, a reflection of the original eight-striped rainbow pride flag,” according to organizers. “One thing trans people do all the time is turn pain into possibility,” says Bell, whose home state of Iowa is one of many that prohibit access to gender-affirming care. “By living under the current Western binary system, trans people reveal maps of possibility for everyone. It’s something we can all learn from: expanding the possibility of human life.”

TREATMENT track listing:

Chapter I – The womb of the soul
“Midnight Moon Pool” by Mary Lattimore + Laraaji + MIZU + Jamal Shakeri
“You Don’t Know Me”, Devendra Banhart + Blake Mills + Beverly Glenn-Copeland
“How Sweet Was My Laziness,” Jeff Tweedy + Claire Rousay
“The Same Train”, Heart Shaped + Christian Lee Hutson

Chapter II – Survival
“STAR”, Ana Roxanne + Nsámbu Za Suékama
“Please tell me,” Lightning Bug
“Make Them Laugh,” Benét + Faye Webster
“Get Me Out Of Here, I’m Dying,” Julien Baker + Calvin Lauber (with SOAK and Quinn Christopherson)
“Rumblin’”, by Soft Rōnin (featuring Frankie Cosmos)
“Deeper Understanding”, Hand Habits (with Bill Callahan)

Chapter III – Dark Night
“Under the Shadow of Another Moon”, Hunter Schafer + Cole Pulice
“Blush”, Mero + Lucy Liyou
“Is it cold in the water?”, Moses Sumney
“Know who you are at any age,” Anajah + Gary Gunn
“Is It Over Yet?”, Niecy Blues (with Joy Guidry)

Chapter IV – The awakening
“Something is going on and I may not fully understand it, but I am happy to defend that understanding,” André 3000
“Come Back Differently” by Nina Keith (with Julie Byrne and Taryn Blake Miller)
“Song to the Siren” by Rachika Nayar (with Julianna Barwick and Cassandra Croft)
“Love Hymn” by Arthur Baker (with Pharoah Sanders)
“People Are Small / The Ecstasy,” L’Rain + Voices from the New York Trans Oral History Project

Chapter V – The duel
“We’ve been through a lot,” Jlin + Moor Mother
“My Name”, Kara Jackson + Ahya Simone + Dave Longstreth
“Point of Disgust”, Genius + Alan Sparhawk perfume
“In another life”, Lomelda + More Eaze
“Pink Ponies” by Teddy Geiger + Yaeji
“Survivor’s Guilt” by Yaya Bey

Chapter VI – Acceptance
“Just last night”, Black Ice Cream + Eileen Myles
“Feel So Different” by Ezra Furman + Sharon Van Etten
“Mourning Dove”, Gia Margaret
“Feel better”, Adrianne Lenker
“Any Other Way,” Allison Russell + Ahya Simone
“Where the Valleys Are Low” by Asher White + Eli Winter + Caroline Rose
“TM”, Fleet Foxes + Cole Pulice + Lynn Avery
“Querube”, AV Maria + SKY + Belina Rose

Chapter VII – Liberation
“Inside and Out”, Green-House + Kelela
“Aaron”, Cassandra Jenkins + Bloomsday + Babehoven
“The Young Lion”, Sade Adu
“You Make Me Feel (So Real)” – Moses Sumney + Lyra Pramuk + Sam Smith
“In Many Ways”, CLARITY (with Clairo)
“I Feel Free” – Sparkle Division (featuring Pepper MaShay)

Chapter VIII – Reinvention
“Free yourself”, Nico Georis + KB Brookins
“A Wolf Like Me,” Bartees Strange + Anjimile + Kara Jackson
“Give Up Your Gender,” Laura Jane Grace (with Lee Ranaldo, Jayne County, Kathi Wilcox, Jay Dee Daugherty, Am Taylor)
“I Would Die For You” by Lauren Auder + Wendy and Lisa from Revolution
“Always”, Time Wharp + Elizabeth and Beverly Glenn-Copeland
“Always New” by Sam Smith + Beverly Glenn-Copeland

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