Inuk improvisational singer, composer, artist, actor and author Tanya Tagaq has released her latest full-length album.
Saputjiji, pronounced Sa-put-yee-yee and meaning designated protector, is described as “a potent counter-strike against billionaires, genocide, abuse and colonial systems.”
“Throughout the album, Tagaq deploys military imagery and convention against itself, Tagaq wields the very tools of power to naturalize and neutralize,” a press release from Six Shooter Records states.
“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.”
Saputjiji features 11 tracks that “incorporate ambient, electronic and filmic sound design elements” that “have their origins in armour and soft underbellies, the hardest and most vulnerable places alike.”
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Tagaq, who is origianlly from Ikaluktutiak or Cambridge Bay, released the first single from the album, titled Foxtrot, earlier this year.
