Robyn Jacob – New Forevers | Redshift Records

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.

DIGITAL TRACKLIST
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

VINYL TRACKLIST
Side A: New Forevers
Side B: Portals I: In The Offing / Portals II: The Verge

CREDITS
Music and lyrics composed by Robyn Jacob
robynjacob.com

Recorded by Carl Roberge and Sarah Shin at Studio Pierre Marchand, Montreal.
Featured performers: Architek Percussion (Noam Bierstone, Alexander Haupt, Ben Duinker, Alexandre Lavoie)

Portals I performed by SHHH!! Ensemble: Zac Pulak and Edana Higham

Viola for Portals II: Marilou LePage
Voices for New Forevers, recorded by Erik Nielson: Asitha Tennekoon, Lucien Durey, Danny Najjar, Eric Biskupski

Mixing and mastering: Chris Gestrin

Collective Ungraspable performed live by Sō Percussion and Petra Elek, Amy Garapic, Mika Godbole, Luca D. Morante, and Elijah Shina. Mastered by Matt Poirier.

Cover: Lake Fire by Megan Hepburn
Album design: Kay Malinka

This project was made possible with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Thanks to Robyn’s mentors who supported her on this journey, including Third Coast Percussion, Architek Percussion, Sō Percussion, and Anna Hostman.

New Forevers is available for pre-order from

LYRICS — New Forevers

generosity of decay
ritualize giving
remembering that which is no more
continuous witness

new forevers
unspectacular
mutagenic theatre
debris sculpture
slow violence
cultural landscapes

for the time it takes for these words to mean nothing
for the time it takes to carve a grain of sand
for the time it takes to get to the final measure
for the time it takes to pour out an ocean
for the time it takes to fill a world with a world
for forever without fail, forever without fail, forever without.