RUBY SINGH ANNOUNCES VOX.INFOLD II - AN ACAPPELLA WORK THAT BRINGS TOGETHER THE POTENT VOICES OF INDIGENOUS, BLACK AND SOUTH ASIAN VOICES - SET FOR RELEASE ON NOVEMBER 29, 2024
WATCH / SHARE “THE CHASE” WITH CHIMERIK 似不像 HERE
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Photo Credit : Dessmin Sidhu // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES
Multi-award winning composer and producer Ruby Singh announces the first single, “The Chase” from the upcoming album, Vox.Infold II, a follow up to the JUNO Award nominated and WCMA winning record, Vox.Infold. This acappella work brings together the potent voices of Indigenous, Inuit, Black, and South Asian voices for a sensuous and deep, fully realized sound that weaves the past, present and future into a monumental record.
What is it that motivates us? What is it that drives us? “The Chase” the first single from Vox.Infold II sets motion and music to these questions. Housed in the ever shifting soundscape of euclidean rhythms, this composition propels us forward with interlocking Katajjaq (Inuit throat singing), beat boxing and soaring melodies. As a predator is hunting their prey and prey attempts to outrun its predator, a feverish desire to survive lies underneath the notes and rhythms of this song. A yearning to quench that which helps us endure our limited time on this earth.
The new single arrives with a video in collaboration with Chimerik 似不像, a multi-award winning, interdisciplinary nonprofit organization comprised of artists from underrepresented groups across various disciplines. The creative process for developing this video was born from the feelings evoked by the song itself; a desire to emulate and represent the journey of the hunt, the way in which landscapes and predators can play tricks on the mind and keep you on edge, always shifting, always responding. The visual component of the project integrates cutting-edge media art techniques to bring the film to life. It employs real-time visual software like Isadora to dynamically adjust visual layers in response to various sound elements. Additionally, the project features a unique use of 360-degree video, with Chimerik incorporating footage captured by Ruby during his explorations in nature. This 360 video is layered and transformed to enrich the artistic expression of the work.
WATCH / SHARE “THE CHASE” WITH CHIMERIK 似不像 HERE
BUY / STREAM “THE CHASE” HERE
Single Cover // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES
MORE ABOUT VOX.INFOLD II
Ruby Singh’s Vox.Infold II explores the gateways on either side of life with songs that welcome incoming souls, mark our time on this earthly plane and honour the outgoing spirits to our ancestors. The album plays within cyclical time echoing (mirroring) the transitions between spirit, birth, life, death and the return to spirit. From the opening song “Solar” that invites the spirits to return to this earthly plane, to the last track “Mojuba,” a Vox.Infold take on a traditional Yoruban Hymn, that the ancestors sing for us, as we cross over into the next world, inviting us to return to our eternal home. The ensemble consists of PIQSIQ’s Tiffany Ayalik and Inuksuk Mackay, Dawn Pemberton, Russell Wallace, Shamik Bilgi, Tiffany Moses, Hussein Janmohamed and Singh himself to bring together a full bodied, resonant and sensorial expression of our spirits journeys housed in polyrhythm, polymeter, lush harmonies, and polyphonic poetry.
“Over the past number of years I’ve lost many elders in my family and, at the same time, a whole lot of beautiful little babies have come into our community. This album was created both as a welcome to the new ones joining us and as prayer for those that have passed, for so much of human history we have used song as a ritual marker for two of life's biggest events: birth and death. Well composing the album I began to think about the music I would like to hear on my own deathbed and realized how similar that would be to a lullaby, on all sides of life we want to feel the love of our dear ones. So this album is an expression of that love we carry for our young ones and our elders as they journey to and from the spirit world.”
Vox.Infold Ensemble // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES
ABOUT RUBY SINGH
A multi-award-winning performer, composer, and producer, Ruby Singh is the driving force behind Vox.Infold II. Residing on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh Nations (Vancouver BC.) Singh’s creativity spans music, poetry, photography and film engaging with mythos, ecology, justice and fantasy that has garnered him the Lieutenant Governor’s Jubilee Award for excellence in Art and Music in 2022, in 2023 he received his inaugural JUNO Award nomination, and he won both the WCMA award for best Global Music Artist of the Year and BC Touring Council’s Artist of the Year.
ABOUT CHIMERIK 似不像
Partnering in this sonic spectacle is Chimerik x, a multi-award-winning interdisciplinary nonprofit organization. Comprising artists from underrepresented groups across various disciplines, Chimerik 似不像 has collaborated on over 500 international projects, exhibiting at renowned events such as ISEA, Digital Arts Festival of Taipei, and PUSH International Performing Arts Festival. Their expertise in new media software and commitment to empowering underrepresented communities make them an integral part of Vox.Infold II.
PAST PRAISE FOR RUBY SINGH
“Mesmerizing, vibrant…Singh isn’t just crossing genres, he’s straddling astral planes….Vox.Infold is an immersive experience of looped beats, breathing and vocals that deserve placement on a Dune soundtrack.” - Globe and Mail
"Ruby Singh keeps on dropping dynamic sonic experiments. The cross-cultural a cappella project brings together vocalists from Indigenous, Inuit, Black and South Asian backgrounds to unite myriad musical traditions in new and unique ways." - The Vancouver Sun
“Lush polyphonic worlds…atmospheric, haunting, ethereal” - Stir Vancouver
“Truly immersive, exciting experience…wildly experimental..fresh and vital.” - The Manitoban
