Qiujaviit - Tanya Tagaq Gillis

The song is "Qiujaviit" by Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq Gillis, from her album "Sinaa."
The pictures are of Nunavut, Canada, and other nearby Arctic areas. I did not take any of the pictures myself, and I take no credit for them.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Tanya
• Tagaq
• Gillis
• Inuit
• Nunavut
• Canada
• Arctic
• Sinaa
• Qiujaviit

[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.)

[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]

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! ;)

[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.

[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 :/.

[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!