#Inuit Music

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Tracklist:

Ajaaja • Retribution • Nacreous • Aorta • Centre • Summoning • Cold • Sivulivinnivut • Sulfur • Rape Me

For more information about the themes of the album, check the Bandcamp link below.

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[vaguegrant]

Inuktitut by Elisapie

I haven't been this excited to discover an album in months.

Inuktitut is Elisapie's fourth album, and it's nominally a cover album. Except for two differences: It's sung entirely in the Inuit language, and these 'covers' are absolutely brilliant rearrangements. Familiar songs are completely transformed, both through genius reorchestration and subtle changes that make each song sound like it was originally written in Inuit—as if no other language could really be suited for those songs.

Elisapie's vocals deserve plenty of credit too, of course. Her voice is rich and enveloping, but with a certain chilly depth that lends even the lightest of pop songs gravitas.

My favorite song is almost certainly Elisapie's entirely brass take on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here", but every single track stands out and stands alone. Metallica, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Cyndi Lauper, Led Zeppelin, Blondie—Inuktitut includes and perfectly reappropriates a broad swath of popular music, fearlessly and effortlessly.

I do not know how to recommend this album to you strongly enough. It is a must-listen.

[wh0-is-lily]

Iggy Rose in “Central Bazaar”, 1976 Dir. Stephen Dwoskin

[itskindofareallyniceday]

Something new for Native American Heritage Month this year:

This playlist features indigenous musicians from North, Central, and South America. It includes a variety of genres (post-classical composers, folk punk, indie pop, pow wow punk rock (yes, that's a thing!), indie rock, etc.), as well as a variety of languages (Wolastoqey, Inuktitut, Atikamekw, Cherokee, Navajo, Cree, Quechua, Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), Tłı̨chǫ, English, French, and Spanish).

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NEW ALBUM STREAMING NOW!!!

Transcestral is the latest album from Montréal, Québec based Inuit/Middle Eastern contemporary/jazz/world music project Oktoecho, released January 21, 2022.

Listen to the full album now:

[johntorrington]

almost done reading this john rae biography

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Iggy Rose

[chevalierlorraine]

This is so nostalgic for me

[muirneach]

join me in polar folk world on this chilly spring week 🤝

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Tracklist:

Intro • Ukiuq • Iqanajarumanngittunga • Nirliit • Arnalukkaq • Makiliqta • Paniarjuk • Tusaavit • Isumagivappinga • Anaanaga • Northern Lights

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[arabella-strange]

and the fact that we were all born in an era where it's possible to listen to very nearly any song from any era at the drop of a hat? you can find songs you haven't heard since you were a child? songs your parents or grandparents knew that you want to learn? you can play them whenever the mood strikes, without having to know how play (or having to have access to) an instrument? you can go home from a live event and listen to a recording of the same stuff all over again? you can lie on the floor and play it outside of your own head as many times as you want? INCREDIBLY RECENT AND ACTUALLY MAGICAL STUFF imo

every now and then I get amazed by how much I love music like wow. I love music so much. music is so cool, I'm so glad music exists. music is the best thing this world has to offer and we can listen to it all the time, it's mindblowing

[pyomatic]

wild take but.... music is so good