… ossia l’arte dei popoli nordici di cantare con la gola, con parole Inuktitut e suoni che evocano il fascino dell’estremo settentrione del mondo, i suoni dell’universo…Un mezzo di comunicazione per raccontarsi le novità, cullare i bambini, narrare le antiche leggende, …
TANYA TAGAK , nativa di Cambridge Bay-Nunavut, è la testimone moderna di un’arte musicale che si stava quasi perdendo, poi i giovani Inuit hanno ripreso a credere nella propria cultura antichissima e a chiedere che gli anziani insegnassero loro tutto quanto riguardava le tradizioni del their people, build igloos, hunting, fishing, singing, everything in the way of older people as handed down through centuries, ever since they stopped on the ice inhospitable North the latest waves of migration from Central Asia across the Bering Strait still viable .
In many communities of Nunavut and northern regions of Quebec, Labrador and the Northwest Territories is passed down the art of these songs with courses taught by great grandmothers, yes, because the ancient art of throat singing was reserved for women usually in pairs, face to face, almost hugging, singing duets with the sounds overwhelming. A few examples among many available online.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9YuVOnbvmo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnGM0BlA95I&feature=related
To return to today, with the extraordinarily Tanya Tagak, can be seen on YouTube countless numbers of her concerts: you'll be amazed and fascinated by the twists of primordial poetic musicality of his voice with modern techniques and inspirations.
suggest a video that runs through the stages of composing a piece to be engraved with the Kronos Quartet
