The song is "Qiujaviit" by Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq Gillis, from her album "Sinaa." The pictures are of Nunavut, Canada, and other nearby Arctic areas. I did not take any of the pictures myself, and I take no credit for them.
Inuit are friendly, open, strong and close to our culture but she's showing it in such a way that we normally don't, we sing and dance in a big group or in two, idk maybe I'm so used to having our ways like this, she doesn't seem modest either.
@diehardoaklandfan510 To me the explanation lies in the feeling that Tanya reconnects us to our primal state as we existed for the first 990,000 years of our existence as a species. You know, before civilisation and organised religion totally perverted our world view and disconnected us from the rest of the natural world. This art form is a fundamentally beautiful thing if you "get it". Which most people I know just don't.
@prosperitycraft NO It is not an Inuit drum, Inuit have 2 drums, a western arctic drum thats beat on the rim of a drum with a long flat stick, the other eastern inuit drum has a short stick with leather on it and a drum that is beat on the opposite sides. Neither sounds sound like the traditional drums we Inuit have.
It's nice that someone shows a bit of our Inuit culture, but most of what she does (throat sing alone with mixed songs and strange dancing) is not part of our culture. We drum dance and have traditional dances that interpret the outside world, like the river, hunting, sled dogs and many others, but this is her contemporary musician work and I'm very suprised that people enjoy it because frankly it turns me off, I don't get excited or enjoy it because I know how its suppose to be sung :/.
How does she decide on the lyrics for her songs? Does she say "I think I'll go ymmmuummh at the beginning, and in the the middle I'll stick the mic up to my nose and breathe hard, and then screech at the end to let everybody know the song is over"?
