Tanya Tagaq- The sounds of throat singing

[bashabash123]

After watching 2:14-2:17 discovered that, as a smoker, catching my breath after a short run is pure talent!

[nastygurlzrock]

thank you for the information,i am very much interested.

[daddypeacebucks]

Very good!

[lazyfreedom98]

Too bad this not as well known as the other throat videos on the net, make it part of music ed.

[elcapo20]

does anyone know if this is the same girl who did national parks canada?

[SableMelody]

Is that an MC Escher dress? Props

[zmyboo]

:59 scares the ish outta me every time

[ppriess]

5 people have no idea of what was going on here.

[fffunfarm]

its old school beat-boxing.

[ThaLynx]

@fffunfarm sure man ! because everybody knows that beat boxing is precedent to ancient mongolian throat singing xD

[JBarber3d]

Girl from Medula, right?

[mapipolo]

@JBarber3d Yes, "the girl from Medúlla!"

[NLBS90]

You wouldn't expect that someone who does throat singing has such a high speaking voice.

[india09ful]

This is absolutely amazing!!!

[WildeTanteAnna]

If a doctor is hearing this,he is telling you,youre having Asthma and a few weeks to live. (Joke)

Overtone singing is the most complecated way of singing.

A very nice woman.

[amysalluviniq]

Very much like

[coolifyyourlife]

Oh my god put on transcribed audio for this! "Lesbian onion hailing your teacher..." LMAO. But yeah, this is amazing. Love it.

[borneo215]

she is very pretty like an angel wow im in love

[JHIslander]

I could listen to her for hours! She is so.... real!

[Atillatzke]

wow ancient beatbox :D

[nassah98]

1:34 dubstep

[LamokaGhost]

Ancestors gave this gift to this beautiful lady, and we should all be grateful she has shared it with us. I hope it is never lost!

[bolkaa]

Beautiful and amazin but sounds like UFO



[Way2Spirited]

@bolkaa To us it sounds like HOME. :o)

[Onlaisneen25]

So cool!  I wonder if it doesn't hurt your throat producing some of those sounds? Wonderful explanation and lovely sounds! ^_^ Thank you for posting this.

[MrCactopuss]

calling it a noise implies that it sounds bad o_o

[DementisVenustas]

@MrCactopuss To some people, probably. And also, I bet English isn't her first language. So we've got to give her a break.

[Kohrote]

~2:16 Cutest laugh ever! :D

[MrTBA97]

that is so cool...

[msleannelloyd]

Will you marry me Tanya Tagaq?

And GREAT dress.

[Peco014]

I respect Tagaq's art form and Tagaq as an individual... but Bjork is my artistic limit!

I guess I am going to contradict myself a bit by saying that I'd still like to hear her do more background vocals for other mainstream artists similar to her contributions to "Medulla."

See seems beautiful and charming... GODSPEED, TAGAQ!

[ThereminWeirdo]

SCARY!

[maartsvenson]

what course is that?

[RasputinGray]

LOVE, LOVE IT AND HER!!!

[MartinaBC19]

Awesome!

[soulmacia]

sounds while u inhale. o.o I tried that and it felt impossible o.o

[1955thekeeper]

Wow! It is a kind of primitive type of beatbox. 

[yanpan16]

@1955thekeeper it's not primitive. it's just different and based on a more traditional style of singing, but it's not primitive.

[1955thekeeper]

@yanpan16 I guess that it totally depends on your personal definition of the term primitive. Let's see... um... peoples who existed as Nomads following the herds of Caribou and Woolly Mammoths before that around 10K to 15K years ago... umh... wore skins of their kills for warmth, drew fantastic diagrams across the interiors or almost every cave they occupied, stone age tools for hunting and fishing, composing and singing songs to describe their world, their lives. Yep, your right not primitive.

[yanpan16]

@1955thekeeper i'm just sure that the style of singing from the inuits changed drastically over time from what they would have sung when they were primitive to now. i know what you meant, i find it fascinating because it comes from that traditional style of singing. i think we, in first world, westernised countries that have lost that traditional aspect of their culture forget that just because something is traditional, it doesn't mean it's primitive.

[1955thekeeper]

@yanpan16 Not me. I'm of the Choctaw Nation.

[yanpan16]

@yanpan16 okay. but i think a lot of people in westernised first world countries do think that way. i know people who think that way in australia and in england. i feel like our traditional cultures have not been preserved so we see any that have as being primitive because we are sooo globalised and think we're so far ahead of the rest of the world. :\

[cicciontek]

@yanpan16 The language that could help all languages and cultures is Esperanto. But the english speaking countries are afraid of losing their primate. they want to be the others to adapt to their language-culture.

[yanpan16]

@cicciontek i don't think that's true. it may sort have been in the past, in the era of imperialism and colonisation. but if anything, we're just lazy. a lot of people speak english so we don't need to learn other languages. and i don't think there is one single language that could benefit all the world, all languages have something unique to offer. english just happens to be the most common due to colonisation but it won't necessarily always be that way. french is almost as big as english.

[cicciontek]

@yanpan16 No colonialism? What's happening in Libia? missiles Tomhawk = depleted Uranium = cancer. They are exporting democracy by killing civil people and giving cancer to future generations as in Kosovo.

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I can write english but i cant say the difference btw sheet and shit, bitch and beach (see "italian to malta" video). Esperanto is learnable in 1 month by everione in the world and there is no difficult pronunciation, and NO ARMY, blood and cancer behind it.

[yanpan16]

@cicciontek i meant british colonialism. britain isn't colonising libya.

learning a language quickly is great. other languages have other things to offer. language is just a way to communicate. i don't think english is superior to other languages, and i also think that if everyone spoke the same language, it would be boring and counter-productive to cultural and artistic progression.

why are we even talking about this? i didn't say anything about language in my previous comments.

[cicciontek]

@yanpan16 Maybe i misunderstood and should send to some other user; it's about protection of non-strong languages, like the ones of native americans.

Just to avoid misunderstanding, Esperanto should be second language, to be used only with foreigners and protect living languages. But english now is destroyng all the langs, because it takes so long time to be learned that people must buy lots of books, Cds watch movies only in that languages... Esperanto would be neuter.

[yanpan16]

@cicciontek i don't think you meant to talk to me then? i'm totally pro preserving languages with less speakers. i'm from australia, where so many aboriginal languages are being lost as we speak. anywhere else in the world, 2000 speakers of a language would be considered dangerously endangered, but in australia (in terms of aboriginal languages) that's really strong! it's so sad because so much culture and art and identities are being lost with the loss of these languages. as well as history.

[13dragontetsu13]

Beautiful and amazing. It feels like mother earth singing!

[mthzb]

@13dragontetsu13 it sounds like an 80 year old chainsmoker haveing a a seizure

[GoodnightIrene18]

@13dragontetsu13 Yes, and it is amazing for me to hear a woman singing in tuvan throat. I know Yat Kha and others. This ist most interesting.

[shewahedwards]

Thanks for posting, Im a Tanya Tagaq fan!

[TheSocknessMonster]

She has the cutest speaking voice too!

[BillRayDrums]

Tagaq is one of my favorite artists. Thanks for this!

[XundeadXaccountX]

man i would get light headed doing all that. haha but nice vid

[Hecatai27]

beautiful.....Absolutely! Reminds me of stories of kuujjuaq....love it.....keep on singing!

[kthorn612]

Linda Blaire had it down good.

[ShadesofScorpius]

She's so modest and sweet, but a powerful force!  Wonderful.

[dbadagna]

Fantastic video.

[coyotsong]

incredible ....thankyou