inuit music

The inuit people music

this is the best inuit music about inuit art ,the music of the Inuit, has been based around drums used in dance music as far back as can be known, and a vocal style called katajjaq.

the best inuit music 

inuit cultural is the most awesome cultural in the world , The Inuit people of the Canadian Arctic share an ancient form of music called katajjait (throat singing). 

Often improvised, women performkatajjait in pairs standing face to face, trading off rhythmic, guttural sounds through vocal manipulation and breathing techniques, creating rhythms that reach 240 beats per minute or more.

Katajjait texts include comprehensible words, words that have lost their meanings, vocables (nonlexical syllables), and mimicking of nature sounds. According to Inuit performing artists Karin and Kathy Kettler (Nukariik), “Anyone can do the basic sound.

inuit music

The inuit music 

These two pieces are settings of Inuit folksongs in English translation. They were originally published in the Journal of American Folklore at the end of the 19th century by the German anthropologist Franz Boas, who spent the summer of 1883 living amongst the Inuit population of Baffin Island. The text for Summer Song is an excerpt of an incomplete text, while the text for Utitiaq's Song is presented in its entirety. The Utitiaq text is based on the story of an Inuit man who became stranded on an ice floe while sealing, and found himself adriftin the ocean for a week. 

1. Summer inuit Music

Ajaja! The great world is beautiful when summer is coming at last.

Ajaja! The great world is beautiful when our caribou begin to come.

Ajaja! When the little brooks roar in our country in summer.

Ajaja! The water has spread over the ice, so that I cannot reach yon little rock.

1. Utitiaq's inuit music

Aja, I am joyful, this is good!

Aja, there is nothing but ice around me, this is good!

Aja, I am joyful, this is good!

My country is nothing but slush, that is good!

Aja, I am joyful, this is good!

Aja, when indeed, will this end? This is good!

I am tired of watching and waking, this is good!

Sisters Karin and Kathy Kettler - Nukariik - inuit music videos