Qiujaviit - Tanya Tagaq Gillis

[MarxWasAMarxist]

Inuit are friendly, open, strong and close to our culture but she's showing it in such a way that we normally don't, we sing and dance in a big group or in two, idk maybe I'm so used to having our ways like this, she doesn't seem modest either.

[MarxWasAMarxist]

It's nice that someone shows a bit of our Inuit culture, but most of what she does (throat sing alone with mixed songs and strange dancing) is not part of our culture. We drum dance and have traditional dances that interpret the outside world, like the river, hunting, sled dogs and many others, but this is her contemporary musician work and I'm very suprised that people enjoy it because frankly it turns me off, I don't get excited or enjoy it because I know how its suppose to be sung :/.

[OZKatun]

What is the instrument other than the voice?

[prosperitycraft]

@OZKatun Not sure. It doesn't sound like the flat drums that the Inuit use for drum dancing, so I guess it's another sort of drum. (I just got the mp3, so I don't have a CD with liner notes or anything.)

[MarxWasAMarxist]

@prosperitycraft NO It is not an Inuit drum, Inuit have 2 drums, a western arctic drum thats beat on the rim of a drum with a long flat stick, the other eastern inuit drum has a short stick with leather on it and a drum that is beat on the opposite sides. Neither sounds sound like the traditional drums we Inuit have.

[aman19991]

i know tanya ahe comes from the same place as i do good old cambridge bay

[evilagent]

So beautiful.

[themysticwinds]

amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!

thx for posting it!

[diehardoaklandfan510]

I haven't been on my youtube account for 10 months or so, but I decided to sign on again today. I looked at the videos I had marked as my favorites, and this one was on there. So I clicked on it to watch it again, and it was just as beautiful as I had remembered. Thank you, prosperitycraft, for posting this beautiful video and the inuit people for the singing

[prosperitycraft]

@diehardoaklandfan510 You're welcome, and I also thank the Inuit people for their wonderful music! :)

[runupahill1]

I shall thank Tanya Tagaq and the Inuit people, and all the native people of the region. I have a playlist devoted to Inuit throat singing. Thank you again, prosperitycraft.

[bjorkero77]

this is so beautiful !!

[runupahill1]

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, prosperitycraft. I've added this video to my playlist of some of the most spiritual voices ever recorded on this planet.

[prosperitycraft]

Thank you, and you're welcome! :) And be sure to especially thank the Inuit people where this song comes from, and thank Tanya Tagaq for singing it! ;)

[deremusatmanagement]

Tanya Tagaq + Jesse Zubot + Jean Martin

Première française samedi 7 novembre 2009 à 21h

Satellit Café

44 rue de la Folie Méricourt - Paris 75011

10 euro

[hit004541]

Ar first it sounds a bit french ;) haha

[diehardoaklandfan510]

absolutely beautiful...touches me in a unexplainable kind of way. beautiful singing and pictures. anyone who says anything different is ignorant.

[prosperitycraft]

Thank you!

[caterthun]

@diehardoaklandfan510 To me the explanation lies in the feeling that Tanya reconnects us to our primal state as we existed for the first 990,000 years of our existence as a species. You know, before civilisation and organised religion totally perverted our world view and disconnected us from the rest of the natural world. This art form is a fundamentally beautiful thing if you "get it". Which most people I know just don't.

[snowtemplepilot]

Cool! I went to school with Tanya, havent seen her in a couple of years. Im happy to see she is out there doing her thing! Tanya if you can see this great album! I wish I had one! Search snowtemplepilot if your interested in what I have done, and keep up the good work!

j.

[Conway79]

I love this music and the photos are great. But you should be aware that the picture at 2:07-2:11 isn't a photo.

[prosperitycraft]

Thanks! Yeah, I figured it was an enhanced pictured, but I just thought it was cool looking ;)

[nitjaajuut]

How dared you. This is not your song

[jattagutsiak]

In northern baffin words (translating it)

Qiujaviii (Are you cold?)

qiujaviii (are you cold?)

qiujavaksinarivit imma ajaaajaaa

(are you getting colder) AJAAAJAAAA

Uquqllumuuu, uqquqrllumuuu (asking a person if he/she has no warm clothing)

My understainding anyways!

[prosperitycraft]

Awesome, thanks for the translation! :)

[hebertvs]

love this song!

[sirtomthecat]

this woman is amazing

as well as beautiful

and very very talented

[jenniensteph]

KuningmulliiHis face is against the ground QiujaviitHe is feeling cold UqquulaamutFalls asleep QiujaviitHe is feeling cold Qiujavaxingnariviit ima ijaja He is heading towards warmth QaujiviitHe knows QaujiviitHe knows UqquulaarmutFalls asleep PijumavitHe wants it or desires it Qaujivaxingnariviit ima ijaja He knows he is heading towards warmth Translated by Gara Mamgark

[jenniensteph]

Part 2

[prosperitycraft]

Wow, thank you for the lyrics and translation! I haven't been able to find it for myself, so I appreciate it! Do you know, is this Inuktitut (Baffin region), or is it a different Inuit dialect?

[jenniensteph]

Hi, it is translated by Gara Mamgark who lives in Arviat, Nunavut

[prosperitycraft]

Thanks!

[jenniensteph]

translation: QiujaviitHe is feeling cold QiujaviitHe is feeling cold IttimingnaakWet QiujaviitHe is feeling cold Qiujavaxingnariviit ima ijaja He is heading towards warmth QiujaviitHe is feeling cold QiujaviitHe is feeling cold PaallangamuutTrips or falls QiujaviitHe is feeling cold Qiujavaxingnariviit ima ijaja He is heading toward warmth

[jenniensteph]

Part 1

[Nicoco95310]

This is great, soulful and very peaceful. I just dicovered that tagaq has made a solo album. I'm really eager to discover it.

[lordofdefeat]

Could somebody translate? ;>

[RuedigaSocke]

This is the woman who worked on Bjorks Medulla. She is very great.

[prosperitycraft]

Thank you for your comment! And I'm always glad to meet another Tanya Tagaq fan!

[alesaenz]

Another cool video!!! You're amazing! :P