![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyI just returned from seeing Tanya Tagaq live. She is so brilliant. Holy shit, is she brilliant. I can't think of anyone right now who is making more innovative music, or anyone who sounds anything like her.
It was at Trinity St. Paul's, and if you've been there, you'll know it's not a very big place and it has quite excellent acoustics, all the better to showcase her sound. She is this tiny, almost unbearably cute person with a vocal range that seems to belong to multiple larger people. And she's just so intense. Her sound is sculptural; unlike the first time I saw her, I was close enough to see that her dancing isn't just dancing to the music but manipulating the air around her to change the quality of the sound. Which makes sense, as her education was in art, not music.
Here's "Centre (feat. Shad)":
And here's the title track from her new album, "Retribution":
At the beginning of the show, she announced that she's moved to Toronto. I'm totally squeeing although let's be honest, I would dissolve into fangirl gibberish if ever I encountered her on the street. But hopefully this means she'll play here more now.
Anyway. Eeee!
It was at Trinity St. Paul's, and if you've been there, you'll know it's not a very big place and it has quite excellent acoustics, all the better to showcase her sound. She is this tiny, almost unbearably cute person with a vocal range that seems to belong to multiple larger people. And she's just so intense. Her sound is sculptural; unlike the first time I saw her, I was close enough to see that her dancing isn't just dancing to the music but manipulating the air around her to change the quality of the sound. Which makes sense, as her education was in art, not music.
Here's "Centre (feat. Shad)":
And here's the title track from her new album, "Retribution":
At the beginning of the show, she announced that she's moved to Toronto. I'm totally squeeing although let's be honest, I would dissolve into fangirl gibberish if ever I encountered her on the street. But hopefully this means she'll play here more now.
Anyway. Eeee!
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2016-11-26 05:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-26 05:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-26 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-27 06:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-26 10:00 pm (UTC)The first video is awesome.
no subject
Date: 2016-11-27 06:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-28 01:14 am (UTC)Not so out there musically, but politically active, have you ever heard any Holly Near? Once went to one of her concerts and was among a very small number of men in the audience...
no subject
Date: 2016-11-28 01:19 am (UTC)