RUBY SINGH’S VOX.INFOLD II OUT THIS FRIDAY, SHARES NEW VIDEO

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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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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TARIQ ANNOUNCES NEW EP,  SHARES NEW SINGLE “ARCHITECT’S STUDIO” 

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Today, Tariq announces the new EP, Scroll Before You Sleep, set for release on January 24, 2025 via Tiny Kingdom. The title, Scroll Before You Sleep, is a unifying tether for these three songs and their nod to digital isolation. “It’s less of a command or a suggestion, more of a warning,” says Tariq. “Keep scrolling, see what happens. Our phone addiction keeps us up at night. It’s impossible to relinquish our devices and when we finally do, they sit beside us on the nightstand, buzzing, alerting, demanding to be looked at and engaged with. When they finally shut up, they start doing their most unsettling activity of all, listening. They eavesdrop on our desires, hunger, fears, our tastes in music, fashion, and lovers. They make decisions about our lives and then at night, they sell it all back to us in ads and subscriptions and as we scroll, we pay. We pay and we rarely sleep.”

Following up recent EP single, “The Ballad Of You And Me”, Tariq shares “Architect’s Studio” which tells the story of a poet who’s down on their luck and sleeping in an architect’s studio. “Every morning they vacate the premises, sneaking out before the staff arrives to work,” explains Tariq. “Do they have a place to go, friends or anybody that cares about them? The track discusses the current epidemic of loneliness that pervades our current society.” 

The chorus refrain ‘If I lost everything would you still love me?’ burrows into your ear, as Tariq laments the pain that the feeling of being alone can have on people. The track stands out with a memorable chorus, driving gritty bass and a wall of distorted guitars.

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MORE ABOUT TARIQ
A stalwart of the Canadian indie scene for decades, this new EP marks the beginning of a new chapter and new sound for Tariq. Decidedly louder, and more immediate he is trading in soft folk harmonies for full throated wails. It also represents a new and collaborative approach to making music, working with musicians Robert Chursinoff (Drums), Peter Carruthers (Bass/Keys), and Adam Nanji (Guitar) who have all been members of some of the most prominent bands in Canada including Tegan and Sara, Said The Whale and Belle Game. “This project is a way to experiment with collaboration and also a heavier sound. I want to create something that resonates in its live form, in front of a big crowd at a festival, something that will be entertaining to watch and sound big and bold.” 

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SCROLL BEFORE YOU SLEEP TRACKLIST
01 Architect’s Studio
02 The Ballad of You and Me
03 Migration Song

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HOUSEWIFE SHARES EUPHORIC NEW SINGLE “DIVORCE”

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“‘King of Wands’ finds Fry once again showing off their layered songwriting and infectious melodicism, hitting on a careful combination of rollicking indie rock guitars and earworm hooks.”

- UNDER THE RADAR MAGAZINE

“ -Child of my own Divorce- That’s the most brilliant lyric I’ve ever heard….The lyrics are incredibly smart.” - LOS ANGELES TIMES

“fun without being frivolous, deep without depravity, and highly musical and mature all at the same time.” - DOMINIONATED

“Toronto-based rising star Brighid Fry under her musical moniker consistently delivers pop-tinged indie-rock productions that weave through everything from messy situationships to climate change in empowering yet grounding tones.” - EARMILK

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Fresh off the back of her highly-praised September single “Life Of The Party”, Housewife (Brighid Fry) is back to her vibrant best once again with new euphoric offering “Divorce”.

Adopting a more introspective approach to the effervescent alt-pop sound she has become known for, “Divorce” sees Housewife release her most vulnerable and reflective, yet anthemic offering to date.

Speaking about the new release, she said, "’Divorce’ is a really personal one for me- I wrote it after experiencing really bad heartbreak that kind of blindsided me and completely uprooted me. It’s about not only mourning the person and the relationship you have with them, but also the life you were building together. It's about starting to rebuild and the struggle between needing to protect yourself, but also not wanting to be involved in something adversarial with someone who has hurt you. The process of making this song was completely different than any others of mine- it was written in about half an hour which is definitely the fastest I've ever managed. I then took my time to record it though, co-producing with my friend Hans Li over the course of about a month. We slowly recorded everything ourselves in his bedroom. It’s the first track I have co-produced in years which I’m really excited about."

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MORE ABOUT HOUSEWIFE
Filled with curiosity and questions of identity, Toronto’s Brighid Fry (she/they) makes the sort of indie-leaning, exploratory music that it’s taken several years of early success and subsequent growth to reach. First breaking through in her teens as one half of Moscow Apartment, the duo swiftly won a Canadian Folk Music award for their self-titled debut EP before changing their name and then becoming a solo project in 2022. As Brighid hit her twenties and stepped front and centre, the material that she was writing became increasingly more self-aware and personal, too.

Still only 21, Brighid credits her liberal upbringing as helping to make this process of both artistic and self-discovery as seamless as possible. Having recently been diagnosed as autistic, she jokes that her neurodivergence was on display and understood from the first moments music entered her life as a child when, unlike most three-year-olds, she became obsessed with classical composers and begged her parents not just for a kid’s violin, but also a collection of busts of Bach, Beethoven and co. When the classical music fixation gave way to more contemporary tastes, she would join her family at the folk festivals they regularly attended, playing her first non-classical performance at a Greenpeace fundraiser. 

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As well as offering Brighid an early introduction to the community that music can provide and the climate activism that would go on to become a big part of her life (in 2021, she helped to set up the Canadian branch of Music Declares Emergency), her family also provided a completely accepting place to explore her wider identity. As a “third generation queer”, she’s felt confident and comfortable with her own bisexuality since the age of 12. “My parents are bisexual; my grandma’s a lesbian; I grew up going to Pride so I never had a teary coming out,” she notes. In the two years since Housewife’s previous EP You’ll Be Forgiven, meanwhile, Brighid has spent time understanding that she is non-binary. “It took longer to figure that bit out, but I’ve never struggled with my identity,” she says. 

Housewife has toured extensively across the US and Canada and is currently finishing up a cross Canada run with Reuben and The Dark. Recent singles “Life Of The Party”, “Wasn’t You”, “I Lied”, “King Of Wands” and “Fuck Around Phase” have picked up support from outlets across the globe, from CBC in Canada to BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6 Music in the UK.

Following a busy Spring of showcase festivals including SXSW, The New Colossus Festival and The Great Escape, Autumn saw Housewife tour the UK supporting Lauran Hibberd, playing their first European shows at Waves Vienna and Reeperbahn Festivals.

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