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

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Origin: Puvirnituq ( ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᖅ), Nunavik (ᓄᓇᕕᒃ), Québec

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27 tracks

Alasi Alasuak - Introduction - Nellie Nungak & Alaci Tulaugak - Little Dog

Track 1 Side 1 02:55
Alaci Tulaugak & Nellie Nungak - Sound of Wind

Track 2 Side 1 02:23
Lucy Amarualik & Alaci Tulaugak - Song of Northern Lights

Track 3 Side 1 01:23
Lucy Amarualik & Alaci Tulaugak - Song of Sea Shore

Track 4 Side 1 01:32
Lucy Amarualik & Mary Sivuarapik - Throat Singing Contest

Track 5 Side 1 03:58
Nellie Nungak & Mary Sivuarapik - Sound of a River

Track 6 Side 1 02:19
Alasi Alasuak & Nellie Nungak - Sound of a Goose

Track 7 Side 1 01:46
Lucy Amarualik & Mary Sivuarapik - Sound of a Cooking Seal Flipper

Track 8 Side 1 01:57
Nellie Nungak & Mary Sivuarapik - Planing the Runners of a Kamutik

Track 9 Side 1 03:15
Alasi Alasuak & Nellie Nungak - Story of a Goose

Track 10 Side 1 01:51
Nellie Nungak & Mary Sivuarapik - Mother Singing a Baby to Sleep On Her Back

Track 11 Side 1 01:53
Nellie Nungak & Mary Sivuarapik - People From Different Places Singing

Track 1 Side 2 01:37
Lucy Amarualik & Alaci Tulaugak - Sound of Panting Dogs

Track 2 Side 2 02:46
Lucy Amarualik & Alaci Tulaugak - Song of Sea Weed

Track 3 Side 2 01:51
Alasi Alasuak, Nellie Nungak, Mary Sivuarapik & Alaci Tulaugak - Song of a Name (For a Boy)

Track 4 Side 2 01:37
Alasi Alasuak, Nellie Nungak, Mary Sivuarapik & Alaci Tulaugak - Song of a Little Girl

Track 5 Side 2 01:42
Alasi Alasuak, Nellie Nungak, Mary Sivuarapik & Alaci Tulaugak - Song About the World

Track 6 Side 2 01:37
Alasi Alasuak - Song About a Thumb

Track 7 Side 2 03:27
Alasi Alasuak - Song of a Three Stringed Fiddle

Track 8 Side 2 01:31
Alasi Alasuak - Are You Shivering?

Track 9 Side 2 01:10
Alasi Alasuak - Look Where Somebody Slept

Track 10 Side 2 01:05
Alasi Alasuak - My Hands Are Cold

Track 11 Side 2 01:10
Alasi Alasuak - Song for a Little Baby

Track 12 Side 2 01:31
Alasi Alasuak - She Thinks She is the Only Daughter

Track 13 Side 2 00:59
Alasi Alasuak - Contest Between Men - A Second Challenge, Song of Wind

Track 14 Side 2 00:56
Alasi Alasuak - Song Game of a Blindfolded Person

Track 15 Side 2 01:22
Alasi Alasuak - Song for a Baby

Track 16 Side 2 01:21

Insight

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