Compilation - ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk

Tracks

Side 1

		Track Name	Length
	1	Alasi Alasuak - Introduction - Nellie Nungak & Alaci Tulaugak - Little Dog	02:55
	2	Alaci Tulaugak & Nellie Nungak - Sound of Wind	02:23
	3	Lucy Amarualik & Alaci Tulaugak - Song of Northern Lights	01:23
	4	Lucy Amarualik & Alaci Tulaugak - Song of Sea Shore	01:32
	5	Lucy Amarualik & Mary Sivuarapik - Throat Singing Contest	03:58
	6	Nellie Nungak & Mary Sivuarapik - Sound of a River	02:19
	7	Alasi Alasuak & Nellie Nungak - Sound of a Goose	01:46
	8	Lucy Amarualik & Mary Sivuarapik - Sound of a Cooking Seal Flipper	01:57
	9	Nellie Nungak & Mary Sivuarapik - Planing the Runners of a Kamutik	03:15
	10	Alasi Alasuak & Nellie Nungak - Story of a Goose	01:51
	11	Nellie Nungak & Mary Sivuarapik - Mother Singing a Baby to Sleep On Her Back	01:53

Side 2

		Track Name	Length
	1	Nellie Nungak & Mary Sivuarapik - People From Different Places Singing	01:37
	2	Lucy Amarualik & Alaci Tulaugak - Sound of Panting Dogs	02:46
	3	Lucy Amarualik & Alaci Tulaugak - Song of Sea Weed	01:51
	4	Alasi Alasuak, Nellie Nungak, Mary Sivuarapik & Alaci Tulaugak - Song of a Name (For a Boy)	01:37
	5	Alasi Alasuak, Nellie Nungak, Mary Sivuarapik & Alaci Tulaugak - Song of a Little Girl	01:42
	6	Alasi Alasuak, Nellie Nungak, Mary Sivuarapik & Alaci Tulaugak - Song About the World	01:37
	7	Alasi Alasuak - Song About a Thumb	03:27
	8	Alasi Alasuak - Song of a Three Stringed Fiddle	01:31
	9	Alasi Alasuak - Are You Shivering?	01:10
	10	Alasi Alasuak - Look Where Somebody Slept	01:05
	11	Alasi Alasuak - My Hands Are Cold	01:10
	12	Alasi Alasuak - Song for a Little Baby	01:31
	13	Alasi Alasuak - She Thinks She is the Only Daughter	00:59
	14	Alasi Alasuak - Contest Between Men - A Second Challenge, Song of Wind	00:56
	15	Alasi Alasuak - Song Game of a Blindfolded Person	01:22
	16	Alasi Alasuak - Song for a Baby	01:21

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This recording presents the katadjait, or throat songs, of the women of Povungituk, a village on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in the Canadian Arctic. Katadjait are duets performed by women who stand close together to produce gutteral vocal sounds through voice manipulation and breathing techniques.

In some communities katadjait have texts with intelligible meanings; elsewhere "meaningless" syllables are used. The women perform standing face to face, normally in pairs (although occasionally a group of four women perform together). The Povungituk katadjait do not have meaningful texts, but the unintelligible syllables known as "vocables".

Produced by Marvin Green
Recorded by Paul Hodge

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