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

By: Compilation

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

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Side 1

11 tracks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#11 Side 1 01:53

Side 2

16 tracks

Nellie Nungak & Mary Sivuarapik - People From Different Places Singing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#16 Side 2 01:21

About This Title

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