And how we did that was, I watched the film four times, and responded vocally and composed my own melodies and stuff like that to the film. We have a beautiful backing track composed by Derek Charke, and he is a brilliant composer and I was really lucky to be able to work with him. It’s the same thing but it’s also different every time because of improvising with my band. Are you pushing it forward now with this iteration? You were commissioned to do this project for TIFF in 2012. She talked about reclaiming Nanook as a modern Inuk woman, and taking out her frustrations over stereotypes vocally. The performance is a visceral one: primal sounds, husky breathing and evocative vocal tricks all bring a beautiful balance to the film.ĬBC Music caught up with Tagaq over the phone before she returned to Halifax, which is actually her undergrad stomping ground (Tagaq attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design when she was first developing her style of singing). To describe her simply as a 'throat singer' doesn't quite do Tagaq's unique talent justice. Tagaq kicked off a four-show tour of Canada yesterday, in Halifax, after performing Nanook three times in New York City earlier this month. 'I just didn’t want to stop doing it, so we’ve now got permission and we’re touring it, which I’m very, very happy about,' says the singer, who has worked with both Bjö rk and the Kronos Quartet.

When the performance was over, she wasn't prepared to let it go. ''There are moments in the movie where … my ancestors, they’re so amazing.Growing up in Nunavut and just the harshness of the environment itself, the ability for people to be able to survive with no vegetation, and just the harshest of environments, it’s just incredible to me. Along with composer Derek Charke, percussionist Jean Martin and violinist Jesse Zubot, Tagaq created and performed the soundscape at the 2012 TIFF. In 2012, Tagaq finally got an opportunity to add a 21st-century filter to the out-of-date classic when the Toronto International Film Festival commissioned her to create a soundscape to accompany Nanook of the North, as part of the festival's film retrospective First Peoples Cinema: 1500 Nations, One Tradition. But, it's a film by a non-Inuit man depicting the traditions of the North Tagaq considers it a film as seen through '1922 goggles.' Tagaq recognizes that Flaherty had a love for Inuit, and says the film does show the incredible resiliency of her ancestors. 'They put a bunch of bullshit happy Eskimo stereotypes, you know what I mean?' she says, with a loud laugh. Asked about her impressions of Nanook of the North, a 1922 silent film by American Robert Flaherty depicting Inuk Nanook and his family in northern Quebec, the Inuk throat singer from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, gets to the point.

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