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. 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 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. 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 Nov. 29th and 30th featuring live spatial playbacks, an XR lounge with Mixed and Augmented Reality Experiences of Mojuba along with artist talk backs.
DETAILS:
When: November 29 & 30
Where: Lobe Studio
713 East Hastings St
Vancouver, BC
Tickets here
