Tayana Tagaq
Tayana Tagaq is an Inuit singer, writer, and composer whom I have enjoyed listening to for years and discovered her through indigigoth spaces. She uses Inuit throat singing kattajaq as she says it gives her power and connects her to the land. She combines katajjaq singing with genres such as jazz, classical music, heavy metal, punk rock, and electronic. The themes of her work are around her experiences growing up in Nunavut, Canada and the subjugation of Indigenous peoples of Canada there. She talks about language loss, cultural theft, residential schools, and relationship to the land. Her songs are political, calling the pain, violence, and darkness inflicted on Indigenous communities, Indigenous land, and Indigenous culture- but she finds beauty in the hardship, power, resilience, all of which are themes in other gothic music genres. I highly recommend this artist.
