RUBY SINGH RELEASES “THE INVITATION”, THE THIRD SINGLE FROM UPCOMING ALBUM VOX.INFOLD II: A CELEBRATION OF NEW LIFE AND RESILIENT JOY AMIDST CHALLENGING TIMES
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RUBY SINGH’S VOX.INFOLD II - AN ACAPPELLA WORK THAT BRINGS TOGETHER A POTENT COLLABORATION OF INDIGENOUS, BLACK AND SOUTH ASIAN VOICES - SET FOR RELEASE ON NOVEMBER 29, 2024
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“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
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Acclaimed composer and producer Ruby Singh announces the release of the third single, "The Invitation", to celebrate the forthcoming album Vox.Infold II. This latest album follows in the footsteps of Singh's acclaimed Vox.Infold, which was both JUNO Award-nominated and recognized with a Western Canada Music Award. This third single is a joyous and celebratory welcoming to our new kin entering this world.
“The Invitation” opens its arms to the sky to welcome new spirits descending from the stars. Led by Russell Wallace’s powerful and embracing voice, along with PIQSIQ’s Inuksuk Mackay and Tiffany Ayalik’s playful Katajjaq (Inuit throat singing), this song embodies the joy we feel when a new member of our family is born. This a cappella piece weaves together Indigenous, Black, and South Asian voices, symbolizing a shared cultural tradition of erupting in song to celebrate life’s most precious arrivals.
Amidst this time of global crisis —including the challenges of climate change, the resurgence of radical ideologies, and ongoing genocides—”The Invitation” stands as a bold act of defiance. It refuses to yield to despair, offering a moment of unity and exultation. Through this song, Singh invites listeners to lift their voices in celebration, resilience, and hope—reminding us of the enduring power of joy, even in turbulent times.
The music video for “The Invitation” created by Chimerik 似不像, marks their 6th collaboration with Ruby Singh. The visual work layers 360° video, captured by Singh himself, of West Coast forest landscapes (using innovative methods in real-time new media program Isadora) with the flowing, ever changing imagery of local water bodies. Echoing the energy of the song, the video draws inspiration from the liveliness of nature itself, how it acts as a mirror for our own human cycle of life and reminds us how each day contains something precious worth celebrating. The tall trunks of trees stretching up to the sky like arms raised in joy, the water flowing no matter what the obstacle - “The Invitation” rejoices in the act of coming to life.
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MORE ABOUT VOX.INFOLD II
Vox.Infold II promises to continue this journey of unity, cultural connection, and musical brilliance. As an album, 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 birth, life, death and the return to spirit. The opening song “Solar” invites the spirits to return to this earthly plane. The last track “Mojuba” is a Vox.Infold take on a traditional Yoruban Hymn wherein 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 Ruby Singh himself to bring together a full bodied, resonant and sensorial expression of our spirit journeys housed in polyrhythm, polymeter, lush harmonies, and polyphonic poetry.
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“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. While 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.”
The album launch will take place at LOBE’s 4D Spatial Sound Studio in Vancouver on November 29th and 30th featuring live spatial playbacks, an XR lounge with Mixed and Augmented Reality Experiences of Mojuba along with artist talk backs. More info and tickets can be found here.
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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
