Tracklist

Throat Songs
A1a	–Alasi Alasuak*	Introduction
A1b	–Nellie Nungak & Alaci Tulaugak*	Little Dog	2:56
A2	–Alaci Tulaugak* & Nellie Nungak	Sound Of Wind	2:17
A3	–Lucy Amarualik & Alaci Tulaugak*	Song Of Northern Lights	1:33
A4	–Lucy Amarualik & Alaci Tulaugak*	Song Of Sea Shore	1:29
A5	–Lucy Amarualik & Mary Sivuarapik	Throat Singing Contest	3:52
A6	–Nellie Nungak & Mary Sivuarapik	Sound Of A River	2:21
A7	–Alasi Alasuak* & Nellie Nungak	Sound Of A Goose	1:54
A8	–Lucy Amarualik & Mary Sivuarapik	Sound Of A Cooking Seal Flipper	1:56
A9	–Nellie Nungak & Mary Sivuarapik	Planing The Runners Of A Kamutik	3:14
A10	–Alasi Alasuak* & Nellie Nungak	Story Of A Goose	1:56
A11	–Nellie Nungak & Mary Sivuarapik	Mother Singing A Baby To Sleep On Her Back	2:34
B1	–Nellie Nungak & Mary Sivuarapik	People From Different Places Singing	1:38
B2	–Lucy Amarualik & Alaci Tulaugak*	Sound Of Panting Dogs	2:41
B3	–Lucy Amarualik & Alaci Tulaugak*	Song Of Sea Weed	1:52
Quartets
B4	–Alasi Alasuak*, Nellie Nungak, Mary Sivuarapik , & Alaci Tulaugak*	Song Of A Name (For A Boy)	1:40
B5	–Alasi Alasuak*, Nellie Nungak, Mary Sivuarapik , & Alaci Tulaugak*	Song Of A Little Girl	1:44
B6	–Alasi Alasuak*, Nellie Nungak, Mary Sivuarapik , & Alaci Tulaugak*	Song About The World	1:39
Mouth Harp Songs
B7	–Alasi Alasuak*	Song About A Thumb	1:46
B8	–Alasi Alasuak*	Song Of A Three Stringed Fiddle	1:36
B9	–Alasi Alasuak*	Are You Shivering?	1:24
B10	–Alasi Alasuak*	Look Where Somebody Slept	1:02
B11	–Alasi Alasuak*	My Hands Are Cold	1:01
B12	–Alasi Alasuak*	Song For A Little Baby	1:05
B13	–Alasi Alasuak*	She Thinks She Is The Only Daughter	1:22
B14	–Alasi Alasuak*	Contest Between Men / A Second Challenge, Song Of Wind	1:47
B15	–Alasi Alasuak*	Song Game Of A Blindfolded Person	1:07
B16	–Alasi Alasuak*	Song For A Baby	1:13

Credits

• Performer – Alacie Tullaugaq (tracks: Alaci Tulaugak), Alassie Alasuak (tracks: Alasi Alasuak), Lucy Amarualik, Mary Sivuarapik, Nellie Nungak
• Producer – Marvin Green
• Recorded By – Paul Hodge

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 group of four women perform together). The Povungituk katadjait do not have meaningful texts, but the unintelligible syllables known as "vocables".

Timberahue

Absolutely fantastic and awe-inspiring melodies on this compilation; they bring one to the shores of the Hudson Bay, where all traces of meaningless nationhood and materialism dissolve, where petty boundaries between us and them, me and him/her, crumble, leaving only the human being and the environment around him/her, and the natural music created thereof. The women of Povungnituk have taught me more than just how to adapt a seemingly boring piece of anatomy to the music of angels, they have taught me how to live a happy, raw life, in touch with nature.

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