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Tundra Songs
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The Kronos Quartet
Format: CD
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1. 22 Inuit Throat Song Games: No. Lullaby
2. 22 Inuit Throat Song Games: No. Throat Song
3. Cercle Du Nord III
4. 22 Inuit Throat Song Games: No. Song Of A Name (For A Boy)
5. 22 Inuit Throat Song Games: No. Dogs
6. Tundra Songs
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"...it will certainly appeal to anyone seeking entry to an entirely new (to most people) aural world that is, at the same time, very old indeed." --Infodad.com, March 19, 2015 "On one hand all the music is composed by the JUNO Award-winning Canadian composer Derek Charke (b. 1974). He is also a flutist and a composition and theory professor at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. On the other hand the gifted young storyteller Laakkuluk Willamson Bathory is the only presence on track 7, reciting a gripping Green-landic version of the creation story that exists all across Inuit lands, the Sassuma Arnaa. She remarks that "we don't so much own this story as we belong to it," keeping it alive through retelling it today, "despite intensive colonization and religious conversion...'" --Andrew Timar, The Whole Note, April 2015Email Signup
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