Inuit siren sets sultry mood.

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Talk about mood music: if you’re looking for a little aural stimulation to get those home fires burning, you’ll want to invite Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq in for the evening. Her newest CD, AUK~BLOOD is erotic, exotic and downright dramatic—a totally exhilarating earful.

The Nunavut native schooled herself in the ancient art of throat singing as an antidote to homesickness while studying art in Halifax, NS in the 90s. Her mom sent along tapes of traditional throat singing: pairs of women, standing face-to-face, creating eerie, edgy rhythms using their breath and vocal chords. Tagaq’s debut performance at a Cambridge Bay, NU talent contest quickly led to various festival gigs—and invitations to perform internationally with such avant-garde artists as Björk and the Kronos Quartet.

In the unsettling, elemental vocals of her newest CD, AUK~BLOOD (Jericho Beach), this “southerner” heard echoes of the North—cracking ice, yelping animals, howling winds—as beautiful, stark and mysterious as the landscape itself.

www.tanyatagaq.com

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