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In BC less than 1% of Old Growth Forests are left standing and even with so few intact ecologies surviving, they are still being logged and destroyed for short term gain. The second single from Polyphonic Garden Suite II was created from field recordings from Fairy Creek, on the lands of the Pacheedaht First Nations, site of one of the largest cases of civil disobedience in canada’s shortsited history. This meditation on loss was created through tempering keyboards with the song of Robin, Thrush and the endangered Western Screech Owl, creatures and kin that stand to lose their habitats due to human impact. The sublime animations for this video were created by the artistic wonder that is Sab Meynert. May we begin to choose new paths that understand our interdependence with this world and show care for all that surround us.

Singh’s ambient offering, Polyphonic Garden Suite II, intimately explores our relationship with this living, breathing and animate world. He created the album over the course of two years of travels to six biomes throughout so-called ‘british columbia’. The emerging melodies are then mixed with field recordings and unique instrumentation (tambura, mohan veena and fujara). Singh tempers keyboards with the songs of coastal wolves, orca, and birds (western screech owl, thrush, robin, song sparrow). To further deepen these sonic landscapes, the midi data of plants and fungi trigger the songs of their animal cohabitants: a Cottonwood tree triggers the call of the Song Sparrow that lives within its branches; bull kelp triggers the song of orcas. What emerges are complexly layered sonic ecologies of connection and wonder for the natural world, where Singh imagines how we might move towards right relations with these generous lands, waters and skies.