For those unaware, New Forevers is composer Robyn Jacob’s debut full-length album, gathering works for solo vibraphone, percussion quartet, and mixed ensemble — including a live recording by Sō Percussion. Recorded in Montreal with Architek Percussion, the album moves through themes of decay, memory, and time.

Robyn Jacob is a composer, pianist, vocalist and educator living and working from the unceded territories of the Sḵwxwú7mesh, Xwməθkwəyəm and Səl’il’wətaʔ Nations, also known as Vancouver. Her compositions include commissions by Grammy winning Third Coast Percussion (Chicago), Architek Percussion (Montreal), Grammy winning Sō Percussion (Brooklyn), Chor Leoni (Vancouver), and Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, as well as collaborations with visual artists and instrument makers.

Her avant-pop project Only A Visitor (Mint Records) has toured internationally and released four albums to date. She has released two albums with her duo project The Giving Shapes in collaboration with harpist Elisa Thorn. Her new solo project Immix explores the emotive narratives of voice and electronics.

She was part of the multi-disciplinary art collective Publik Secrets, (2013-2025) whose work includes a variety of public space interventions, performances, installations and ephemeral gatherings, including Gamelan Bike Bike, which she has co-led with artist and composer George Rahi for over ten years.

1. Portals I: In The Offing [10:46]
2. Portals II: The Verge [11:48]
3. New Forevers [18:34
4. Pith [5:14]
5. Collective Ungraspable [16:44]
6. Transference and Zoosemiotics [14:00]

Recorded by Carl Roberge and Sarah Shin at Studio Pierre Marchand, Montreal, and featuring performers Architek Percussion (Noam Bierstone, Alexander Haupt, Ben Duinker, and Alexandre Lavoie), Robyn opens her diligently sculpted new recording on the deliciously elegant, yet layered and explorative Portals I: In The Offing and then brings us the veritably translucent gossamer of Portals II: The Verge, the rhythmically ambient title track New Forevers, the melodiously engaging Pith, the set rounding out on the seductively astute Collective Ungraspable, coming to a close on a shrewd consciousness of confidence found within Transference and Zoosemiotics.

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