World Music with La Musgana

Tagaq Brings News Sounds of the North

Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq Gillis has been on the music scene jjust six short years. He ground breaking throat singing has brought an ancient Inuit vocal game to the heights of the experimental music scene. She’s collaborated with Island’s Bjork and the Kronos Quartet and she has toured with some of the world’s leading global artists. Like Bjork, Tagaq makes music that is both decidedly unusual and universally appealing on a most primal level. Her innovative, solo style of throat singing seeks to push the boundaries of emotion and to express the primitive instincts she believes still reside deep within our flesh. She describes her evolution over the past six years as a process of going deeper and deeper into her performance to the point where she virtually “leaves her body” and lets the expression take over.