ADA LEA RELEASES NEW EP ‘notes’ TODAY, SHARES MUSIC VIDEO FOR “i-95”

ADA LEA RELEASES notes EP VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS & SADDLE CREEK TODAY

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Ada Lea (the moniker of Montreal’s Alexandra Levy) has released a new EP, “notes”, a collection of songs written at the same time as her sophomore album, one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden.

To celebrate, the acclaimed songwriter is sharing the music video “i-95”, a fun, day-dreamy crush song worked up by Ada Lea and collaborator Emilie Kahn. “Emilie Kahn and I wrote this song in one sitting, using the corny drum machine sound on an Omnichord to get us grooving.” Ada Lea comments, “The song is about driving to NY with your crush. Hot scenes playing out in your mind. I love how the song blurs the space between fiction and reality.” Out along with the track is an animated music video created by Ada Lea who shared, “I’m still very much a beginner with animation, so if I think too hard about whether what I’m doing is good or not, I lose all hope. At each step, I was in my “first thought best thought” mode—from which drawing I would use as the base, to the decision to add sunglasses and a neon green bralette and angel wings to the figures.”

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MORE ABOUT ADA LEA
Ada Lea is the musical project of Montreal-based songwriter Alexandra Levy. She released her debut album, what we say in private, and her sophomore album, one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden, both on Saddle Creek and Next Door Records. Ada Lea’s songs feature melodies that are at once classic and unique, and lyrical narratives that are both autobiographical and fictional. After extensive touring with her band, she is now putting the finishing touches on her third record.

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PRAISE FOR one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden

“‘damn,’ from the Montreal-based singer-songwriter Ada Lea, unfolds like a quiet epiphany: a gradual accumulation of feelings and frustrations that, in an instant, snap into a sudden clarity.” - The New York Times

“[‘damn’ is] propulsive, unsettling and exquisite – and an impressive way to kick off an album.” - NPR Music

“[one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden] separates itself from the pack of a lot of similar folk music being made nowadays by being particularly crisp and well-defined.” - Stereogum

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notes EP
01 i-95
02 come on, baby! be a good girl for the camera
03 make me a promise
04 serait-il…? 
05 hometown
06 heard you

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MADDIE JAY ANNOUNCES NEW LP, I CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND, SHARES NEW SINGLE

MADDIE JAY SET TO RELEASE I CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND, DUE JANUARY 10, 2025

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"The bubbling synth soundscape Jay creates becomes a place of solace, where she tries to shake off her concerns; thankfully she leaves plenty of space for others to not only relate, but to join in on the dance party. ...  a welcome return into the colourful mind of Jay."
CBC Music on "Eckhaus Latta"

“a woozy bedroom pop track that sets Jay's infinitely relatable lyrics to an infectious beat driven by arpeggiated synths” Exclaim! On “Excuses”

“a hooky slice of honest indie-pop.” The Line Of Best Fit on “Undertow”

“Elements of dream-pop collide masterfully with lo-fi hip hop, and 60's pop stylings unite with surf-rock tones to name but a few.” Earmilk on “Peanut Butter Song”

“Maddie Jay is an up-and-coming artist to get excited about.” FLOOD Magazine

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Today, producer/artist and multi-instrumentalist Maddie Jay announces the new album, I Can Change Your Mind, set for release on January 10, 2025. “I wrote many of these songs over improvised tape loops that I recorded with my dear friends in hazy late night studio sessions,” Maddie explains. “I wanted to create a sonic bed that felt organic, nostalgic, immersive and emotionally cathartic. Working outside of solitude was a challenge for me, however I feel the end result resonates much stronger than something I would have created alone, which is probably a lesson in itself.”

Following on previous singles “I’m The Leader” and “Name Your Price”, today Maddie shares another album track. “Chemical” is a song that “feels like smoking a little bit too much weed when you were already anxious and laying on top of your covers with a light breeze coming in through and having an absolute internal meltdown,” says Maddie. “It’s about the pain of simply existing and trying to rationalize why it’s all so intense and confusing by labeling everything as a chemical and disconnecting from the emotional side of things. This song was a collaboration with a few friends, we wrote the Radiohead/aphex twin type outro very late in the studio one night and immediately knew we had something special.”

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MORE ABOUT I CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND
“The style of songwriting I chose to pursue for this project came about while reflecting on my past projects,” Maddie explains. “I realized when listening to some of those old lyrics that I had unknowingly narrated the subtleties of an abusive relationship, described the feeling of intense codependence, and exposed my inner workings in some unflattering ways, all while thinking I was writing simple love songs.

“Each of these tracks was born in an effort to crystalize a feeling of overwhelm in my life over the last two years. They speak from within the headspace of addiction, loss of control, isolation, mania, codependence, and fear that I will never reach my full potential. By allowing myself to become an unreliable narrator, I felt able to understand the volatile internal negotiation between the person I am, and the person I aspire to be.”

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MORE ABOUT MADDIE JAY
Maddie Jay is a producer/artist and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, CA. Maddie has toured with Remi Wolf, Lorde and Summer Walker, and featured on Grammy Award winning artist RAC’s album Boy. She truly feels she is at her best when she is sitting in her bedroom studio surrounded by Casio synths, drum machines and guitars, twisting knobs and pouring her heart into her computer. 

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TOUR DATES w/ REMI WOLF
Nov 28 - Leeds, UK - O2 Academy Leeds
Nov 29 - Glasgow, UK - Barrowland Ballroom
Dec 1 - Dublin, IE - National Stadium
Dec 2 - Manchester, UK - Albert Hall
Dec 4 - Bristol, UK - O2 Academy
Dec 5 - London, UK - O2 Academy Brixton

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I CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND TRACKLIST
1 An Attempt At Advice 
2 Name Your Price 
3 Stop Me If I've Told You This Story 
4 Eckhaus Latta
5 The Show
6 Chemical 
7 Hot Suburban 
8 Please Hold! 
9 Every Little Thing
10 lovelost
11 11th Avenue
12 I'm The Leader 

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RUBY SINGH ANNOUNCES VOX.INFOLD II, SHARES FIRST SINGLE

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

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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. 

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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.”

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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

VOX.INFOLD II TRACKLIST
01 Solar
02 Return
03 The Invitation
04 Radiate
05 Heights
06 Snare
07 The Chase
08 Parade Of Lost Souls
09 Mojuba

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