![]() ![]() It was the kind of ambivalent summer day peculiar to the Rockies, vacillating between bright sunlight and windblown rainfall. Although Tagaq could still snarl and pant, she was unable to perform without having to stop and cough. Throat singing is both vocally taxing and beautiful, and illness interferes. While your typical Internet comment might remark that she sounds sick no matter what (“the dry heave stage of a hangover,” writes one Globe and Mail reader), that would be a stupid remark indeed. She is an Inuk and a throat singer, which means that the noises she makes rumble from deep inside her, a drum-like volley of grunts and growls. ![]() More so than most other singers, she bends and stretches her voice to the very limits of what the human larynx can do in fact, she sounds not particularly human at all. ![]()
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