Tanya Tagaq (CAN)
Experimental
Tanya Tagaq (CAN)
Canadian artist Tanya Tagaq blends Inuit folk music and avant-garde compositional techniques in her songs, which focus on improvisational singing. Known for her social, political, and environmental activism, she is the most famous singer-songwriter from Canada's northernmost region, Nunavut, and a respected artist who has won every major Canadian music award and is absolutely following her own path. We can also get to know her from the House of Music's current exhibition, LISTEN. Her tribal, experimental chamber music is unlike anything else – yet mesmerizing at the same time. This is her first concert in Hungary!
Tanya Tagaq is the most celebrated Inuit performer, with her artistic pop music rooted in folk and traditional throat singing (she has won all of Canada's most prestigious music awards: Polaris Music Prize, JUNO Award). Her songs blend Inuit folk music, experimental traditions, various shades of ambient music, and chamber music. Her first albums featured elements of trip hop and art pop, then 2014's Animism veered towards post-rock and free folk, which also characterizes her most successful album to date, 2016's Retribution. Her latest album, Tongues (2022), is a cross between tribal ambient, post-industrial elements, and poetry, creating a unique, easily immersive world. It has even been remixed, with remixes and collaborations by Kronos Quartet, Backxwash, Daedelus, Ash Koosha, and others. Tanya Tagaq always preserves something of her ancestors' traditions, throat singing, vocal techniques, and melodies—her songs simply have to be heard.
Rock Troubadours (US, 70s): CSNY, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Roy Harper
