Rob Malowany has reinvented himself on Singularity, the debut album from Parkland Music Project.

While retaining a solid singer-songwriter foundation, his immersion in the Vancouver creative music scene inspired Malowany to mix improv and sonic exploration into his direct and honest songs.

Recorded entirely in Malowany’s own studio, Singularity moves from reflective midnight piano improvisation and field recordings (“Wonderful Heartache”), Tenor-ion generated electronic pulses (“Compatriots”), skittering interpretation (Fond of Tigers leader Stephen Lyons’ drumming on the title track), and understated but lush orchestration (featuring fellow Fond of Tigers member Shanto Acharia on cello, and experimental trumpeter Kevin Elaschuck), to impassioned, heart-laid-bare songwriting. The result is a diverse and far-reaching sonic document that sets the tone for further and freer exploration from Parkland.

Singularity is the first document of an artist that is at once in transition, and completely at home with his process.