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(2019) Tanya Tagaq - Toothsayer EP
Review:
For those unable to experience experimental Inuk artist Tanya Tagaq’s sonic contribution to National Maritime Museum’s “Polar Worlds” exhibit in situ in London, UK, Tagaq release as a digital EP titled Toothsayer via Six Shooter Records. Toothsayer, a 5-track soundscape created for the exhibit, expands Tagaq’s prestigious compositional work with ambient electronic and piano-driven textures.
…The songs were recorded with percussionist and producer Jean Martin, and U.K. electronic artist Ash Koosha also features on “Snowblind” and “Submerged.” “I named this Toothsayer because I always liked the term soothsayer, to look into the future and to speak wisely,” Tagaq said in a statement. “Teeth represent protection and hunting in nature.
We are going to have to get our fists up and our teeth out to carve our way to survival in this world.” Toothsayer follows the release of Tagaq’s 2018 book Split Tooth, which tells the story of a girl growing up in Nunvaut in the 1970s using a blend of “fiction and memoir, myth and reality, and poetry and prose.”
Tracklist:
01 - Icebreaker
02 - Snowblind
03 - Toothsayer
04 - Submerged
05 - Hypothermia
Summary:
Country: UK
Genre: alternative folk, ambient
Media Report:
Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~ 665-849 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits |
