!!!!!

[sabotabby]

I saw Tanya Tagaq perform with the Kronos Quartet last night. Apparently the whole show was livestreamed somewhere, but I can't find it and I have to work a 12-hour day today so I can't go looking, but take my word for it that it was incredible. One of the best performances I've ever seen, and I go to a lot of shows.

Here's a link to their collaboration, "Nunavut," which they did last night.

I've been slightly obsessed with Tagaq for a while—I truly believe she's the most innovative musician in the country right now—but it's one thing to hear recordings, where my brain kind of assumes that there is some production going on, effects, maybe backup singers, and another thing to see her live wherein it is very obvious that all of those sounds are coming just from her.

Just mindblowing.

(Also, can someone tell me why I never hear her played at goth nights? She is more industrial than industrial.)

Comments

[culpster.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, so that was your first time seeing her!! I was lucky enough to hear her in a really intimate show with Tribe Called Red at the Music Gallery before things really got going for her, then again when she did the Nanook thing at Luminato. Her stage presence is unbeatable.

[sabotabby]

It was! I sadly missed the pre-fame shows.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Never seen her live, but the first time I heard throat singing I couldn't believe it was an unassisted human voice.

I never played Tagaq at any of my DJ nights, but there is a Yat-Kha (Tuvan group featuring throat-singing) cover version of Love Will Tear Us Apart...

[sabotabby]

Yes, I've heard it! It's fucking brilliant.

[ironed_orchid]

IT sounds amazing, so glad you got to see her.

[sabotabby]

Me too. I'm now going to be a groupie and go to every show she does.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

just love the Kronos -

George Crumb, "Black Angels," Movt. 1, "Departure"

[sabotabby]

I didn't realize how exciting they were. They did a bunch of international pieces and one about Delia Derbyshire.

That's an awesome song.