Live from Christ Church Cathedral

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1.	Nocturnal 02:55	info	buy track
2.	Nightmare 03:58	info	buy track
3.	Storm 04:33	info	buy track
4.	Converge 04:21	info	buy track
5.	Unearthed 05:06	info	buy track
6.	Ascend 05:50 video	info	buy track

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PIQSIQ is proud to present their latest album Live from Christ Church Cathedral, a haunting collection featuring a completely improvised six song set. Listen as their enchanting melodies and guttural beats echo through the old, gothic architecture creating a deep sense of magic, time travel and futurism.

This bold performance is an empowering statement that brings the ancient art of Inuit throat singing into spaces where it was previously forbidden.

The Church, in collaboration with the Canadian Government, were nearly successful in eradicating throat singing by the 1950s by making the practice criminally punishable through fine and imprisonment. Through the efforts of Inuit women the practice began to be revived in the 1980s. Throat singing is now in a gorgeous renaissance of reclamation and revitalization and the PIQSIQ sisters continue their contributions to its journey.

From start to finish listeners can feel the transportive nature of PIQSIQ’s live performance. With its complex and textured layers, soaring melodies and otherworldly sounds, it truly proves itself as a one of a kind experience.

Nocturnal represents the beginning of a long, dark night for Inuit culture due to the colonization that forced its practices underground. Nightmare communicates the disturbing reality that many Inuit lived through while attending residential schools and southern sanitoriums. Storm signifies the tumultuous return home for those who survived. Converge is a coming together, a unification, a reunion of a people determined to no longer be tread underfoot. Unearthed is a heart wrenching lullaby sung to the reemergence of culture and of remains. Ascend is a bittersweet anthem inspired by restoration and the lifting of the downtrodden.

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released October 29, 2021

Written & Performed by PIQSIQ (Inuksuk Mackay & Tiffany Ayalik)
Live Recordings by Jane Aurora

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Inuksuk Mackay and Tiffany Ayalik are Inuit style throat singers performing ancient traditional songs and eerie new compositions. .

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