“Inuktitut was my first language, but I’m slowly losing it since I don’t really have that opportunity to practice my culture as much as if I lived up north,” she recently said in a TikTok video. “That ...

Tagaq hails from Victoria Island in Nunavut, Canada, born to a family from the area in which the film was made. She’s one step removed from the hunters whose lives Flaherty portrayed on film. “The ...

Tanya Tagaq's new album, Auk/Blood, is a portrait of a primeval past that is also quite futuristic. Animalistic grunts and howls mix with beatboxing and sensual gasps, the chorus of which emanates ...

I spent the past weekend in Knoxville, Tennessee, attending the Big Ears Festival, an unabashedly eclectic three-day extravaganza focused on the intersection of contemporary classical, improvisation, ...

new video loaded: Big Music in Small Rooms: Throat Singing Experience an intimate show of Inuit throat singing from Tanya Tagaq and Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory in Iqaluit, on the edge of the Canadian ...

The sounds that come from Tanya Tagaq are unlike just about anything you have heard. They can sound rhythmic and guttural, like animal calls or a wind blowing across the tundra. “Don’t come unless you ...

Inuk throat singer Shina Novalinga captured audiences last year when she posted a video of her and her mom throat singing on TikTok. Shina Novalinga Uses Social Media To Preserve, Celebrate Inuit ...

For more than a decade, Beatrice Deer has mixed traditional Inuit throat singing and indie-rock in a style that she cleverly calls "Inuindie." Half-Inuk and half-Mohawk, her voice is slinky and raw, ...

Inuit katajjaq, or throat-singing, is something that Charlotte Carleton discovered when she was six. She was captivated when she heard it on a cassette tape of her mother's. Carleton, who is of Inuit ...

Tanya Tagaq looks as if she’s having an out-of-body experience onstage. Her voice flickers like a sonic candle, rising and fading with the music. It becomes guttural as Tagaq drops to her knees, and ...