Inuk improvisational singer, composer, artist, actor and author Tanya Tagaq has announced a new full-length album.
Announcing Saputjiji on social media, Tagaq wrote that the new album “travelled a long road to be here, from a place we could not see.”
Tagaq, originally from Ikaluktutiak or Cambridge Bay, released Foxtrot, the first single from her upcoming album, on Wednesday.
The track is described as “weaponizing the military alphabet into protest callsign.”
Saputjiji will be out on March 6. The album is described as “a potent counter-strike against billionaires, genocide, abuse and colonial systems” with 11 songs that have “origins in armour and soft underbellies alike, the hardest and most vulnerable places.”
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“On Saputjiji, the singular force of Tagaq is more commanding, innovative and pointed than ever, aiming straight at the jugular of the military-industrial-capitalist-tech powers of the times,” stated a press release from Six Shooter Records.
“From pulsing trip-hop to sonic turbulence, Tagaq’s palate is acidic, tarry and dissonant, a mouthful of soil contaminated by the poisons of violence, conflict and extreme exploitation.”
Also on Wednesday, Tagaq announced a new stage production titled Split Tooth: Saputjiji, which draws inspiration from her novel Split Tooth and will feature music from the upcoming album.
The show will premiere on February 5 at the Push festival in Vancouver.
In February and March, Tagaq has tour dates in Hungary, Germany and the United Kingdom.
