Vox.Infold

Ruby Singh is a Canadian musician, composer, filmmaker and sound designer fascinated with mythos, memory, identity and fantasy. He works in the realm where reality meets the surreal. With his previous album, the genre-jumping Jhalaak (Spark) project, he combined Sufi spiritual qawwali music with hip-hop and global bass sounds. This latest creation is a deep dive into the musical properties of breathing and exhaling.

Meticulously and intricately built around (and inside) Indigenous, Inuit, black and South Asian voices, Vox.Infold is an exercise in technical prowess that never loses its humanity. Equally immersive and outreaching, his compositions seamlessly travel between spiritual hymns and beatboxing thanks to soul-singing powerhouse Dawn Pemberton, the Inuit throat-singing duo PIQSIQ of Inuksuk Mackay and Tiffany Ayalik, Lil’wat singer and composer Russell Wallace, Dene artist Tiffany Moses, and South Asian hip-hop artist Shamik Bilgi. Following the footsteps of visionaries such as Hector Zazou, Laurie Anderson and Tanya Tagaq, Ruby Singh brings us into the contemplative, the rhythmic, the cerebral, the natural and the power of voices. Only voices. In fact, he completely redefines the concept of a cappella. Air has rarely been used with such expression and artistry.