Tanya Tagaq’s “Auk” reviewed on Sonomu
Tanya Tagaq: “Auk” (Jericho Beach Records) Tanya Tagaq may well be the most exciting aboriginal artist yet to emerge from North America. Her art is unclassifiably idiosyncratic yet in demand from an ever-widening audience. In early 2010 alone, she appeared in concert with Kronos Quartet, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and a brace of electronic musicians,...
Hey, what’s that sound: Throat singing
A droning, pulverising sound of shamanic origin, this is ancient soul music from the east by David McNamee (guardian.co.uk), Wednesday 2 June 2010 13.02 BST What is it? A catch-all term covering different disciplines of extreme vocal technique from around the world, often recognised as a low, pulverising, drone-growl that western ears sometimes interpret as...
Geologist (from Animal Collective) interviews Tanya Tagaq for Brightest Young Things
Geologist Interviews Tanya Tagaq March 12, 2010 Throat-singing, a guttural style of singing or chanting, is one of the world’s oldest forms of music. For those who think the human voice can produce only one note at a time, the resonant harmonies of throat-singing are surprising. In throat-singing, a singer can produce two or more...
Tanya Tagaq interviewed by Anil Prasad
Tanya Tagaq Instinctual invocations by Anil Prasad Copyright © 2010 Anil Prasad. All rights reserved. Tanya Tagaq’s passion for propelling her art form forward is striking. She’s the world’s most well-known Inuit throat singer and is determined to integrate her mercurial vocals—which range from the raw and guttural to the refined and soaring—into as many...
Miguel Santos on The Journal of Music
The Journal of Music is not like any other music magazine. It is a magazine of ideas as much as it is a magazine of music. Now in its fifth issue, their writers are leading musicians and composers who are creating a new conversation on musical life today. Contemporary, classical, jazz, traditional, rock, pop, folk,...
