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Inuit Throat And Harp Songs, Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk

by Various

Release Details

Year
1980
Format
Vinyl — LP, Album
Country
Canada
Label
Canadian Music Heritage Collection
Catalog #
MH001
Tracks
31

Tracklist

  1. Throat Songs
  2. Quartets
  3. Mouth Harp Songs
  4. A10Story Of A Goose
    1:56
  5. A11Mother Singing A Baby To Sleep On Her Back
    2:04
  6. A1aIntroduction
  7. A1bLittle Dog
    2:56
  8. A2Sound Of Wind
    2:17
  9. A3Song Of Northern Lights
    1:33
  10. A4Song Of Sea Shore
    1:29
  11. A5Throat Singing Contest
    3:52
  12. A6Sound Of A River
    2:21
  13. A7Sound Of A Goose
    1:54
  14. A8Sound Of Cooking Seal Flipper
    1:56
  15. A9Planing The Runners Of A Kamutik
    3:14
  16. B1People From Different Places Singing
    1:38
  17. B10Look Where Somebody Slept
    1:09
  18. B11My Hands Are Cold
    1:10
  19. B12Song For A Little Baby
    1:08
  20. B13She Thinks She Is The Only Daughter
    1:27
  21. B14Contest Between Men / A Second Challenge, Song Of Wind
    1:57
  22. B15Song Game Of A Blindfolded Person
    1:20
  23. B16Song For A Baby
    1:27
  24. B2Sound Of Panting Dogs
    2:41
  25. B3Song Of Sea Weed
    1:52
  26. B4Song Of A Name (For A Boy)
    1:40
  27. B5Song Of A Little Girl
    1:44
  28. B6Song About The World
    1:39
  29. B7Song About A Thumb
    1:46
  30. B8Song Of A Three Stringed Fiddle
    1:39
  31. B9Are You Shivering?
    1:32

Notes

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

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  • Discogs ID2658300
  • Data QualityCorrect

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