Tigmus and The Nest Collective are delighted to bring Tanya Tagaq to London!

Award-winning Inuit vocalist Tanya Tagaq, known for her intense, evocative style based on traditional throat singing, performs a live accompaniment to Robert Flaherty’s controversial 1922 silent film Nanook of the North. Joined by percussionist Jean Martin and violinist Jesse Zubot, Tagaq reclaims the film’s images of life in an early twentieth-century Inuit community in Northern Quebec.

“A magnificent, unique, overwhelming life force,” —Froots Magazine

Commissioned by the Toronto Film Festival, Tagaq’s work with Nanook began with a sonic exploration of the film’s imagery. With her own sense of the sounds of places shown in the film, she transforms its images, adding feeling and depth to what is a complex mix of poignant representations and racially charged clichés. The film, one of the world’s first major works of non-fiction filmmaking, is rife with contradictions. Flaherty lived and worked with Inuit communities for many years, and yet he included staged scenes of buffoonery and feigned Inuit ignorance of modern technology and accoutrements.

“Everyone will take what they want from it. I have no intention of spoon feeding people what they need to know,” Tagaq states. “Yet, hopefully, via coaxing and innuendo and emotion, I can elevate people’s consciousness of Inuit culture, and of culture in general. I can take a small bite out of the underground racism against Inuit and Aboriginal people. I have faith that if people are educated about what’s actually happening, and if people believe, it can be fixed. But you have to acknowledge the bad to sprout the good.”

Doors: 19:30

Rhythm Passport Presents… #3 (January 2022)

This year, we decided to have a different go at the usual end of the year list. Thanks to RTM.FM and Taco!, we could change the medium and move from written words to on-air ones… Our first podcast of 2022 and third Rhythm Passport Presents… features a “best albums of…

Artists: Abdul And The Gang , Arooj Aftab , Baianasystem , Balimaya Project , Bareto , Bejuco , Blue Lab Beats , Cochemea , Combo Chimbita , dal:um , Farhot , Giacomo Sferlazzo , Go Dugong , Guedra Guedra , Hailu Mergia , Imed Alibi , Joao Selva , K.o.g. , Khalil EPI , Little Simz , Moor Mother , Oliver Nayoka , Tanya Tagaq , Urban Village , Xenia Rubinos , Zohra

Gig Review: Tanya Tagaq @ Borderline (London, Wednesday 27th March 2019)

You can get used to everything except for Tanya Tagaq and her art. The only constant element in the Inuk musician’s performances is indeed their unpredictability and instability. That’s how she lures her audience and keeps their eyes glued to her movements, their ears hanging on to her words, cries,…

Artists: Tanya Tagaq

Daily Discovery: Tanya Tagaq “Uja” and “Umingmak” (live) — Polaris Music Prize 2014

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Artists: Tanya Tagaq