Ruby Singh
and
the Future ancestors

Multi-award-winning and JUNO-nominated polymath Ruby Singh returns with The Future Ancestors, a genre-bending fusion of blues, gospel, hip-hop, and griotic traditions that conjures myth, spirit, and reverence for the past while dreaming the world to come. At its heart is Singh's collaboration with the Memphis-born griot and Hoodoo practitioner Arthur Flowers, and gospel luminary, Khari Wendell McClelland. Together they weave story. rhythm, and prayer into a living ceremony of vibrant sound. Joined by Holly Eccleston (vocals), Gordon Grdina (oud, guitar), Kenton Loewen (drums), Paul Finlay (DJ), and Karlis Silins (bass), the ensemble channels ancestral resonance through explosive beats, gospel uplift, and poetic invocation. Their latest album, Celestial Libations, is blues as ceremony, hip hop as gospel, and story as spell-an ecstatic offering of resistance, reverence,and rhythmic prayer for the future.

 

Celestial Libations is a mythic journey, a sonic offering, and a conjuring of what feeds the spirit. An album made in reverence and resistance—born of collaboration, rooted in tradition, and reaching toward what’s possible. It doesn't look away from grief or injustice, but leans into them with rhythm, rhyme, and spirit. The album brings together the rawness of blues, the urgency of hip hop, the griotic traditions of myth and the uplift of gospel. Blending hip hop, blues, gospel, and griotic traditions, Ruby Singh & The Future Ancestors ft. Arthur Flowers pour songs and stories like libations—rituals to remember, rhythms for resistance, and spells to seed the world to come.

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Ruby Singh brings his composition and lyricism —drawing on ancestral memory and future vision. His voice moves from grounded spoken word to explosive rhyme, always with heart, always in service of something greater. The legendary Arthur Flowers, the blues doctor himself, brings his Hoodoo storytelling—tales of Br’er Rabbit, Sister Beetle, and the Monkey Doctor—braiding together trickster myth and wisdom with his conjuring ways. His presence is both invocation and blessing. Khari Wendell McClelland, of the Sojourners, lights the way with his gospel-infused melodies and songwriting brilliance, delivering lines that rise like fire towards the night sky. Together, this trio holds the core of a work rooted in reverence, kinship, and sonic healing. Joining this sacred constellation are Holly Eccleston (Vocals), Gordon Grdina (oud and guitar), Kenton Loewen (percussion), Paul Finlay (DJ), and Karlis Silins (upright and electric bass).

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Celestial Libations draws a ceremonial circle with stardust, incanting the names of the many, for a mythic remembering. It’s blues as ceremony, hip hop as spellwork, gospel as uprising—a testament to the sacred work of becoming.

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