December 16, 2019
In time for the 2019 holiday season, sisters Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik and Kayley Inuksuk Mackay of PIQSIQ have released an album of Christmas carols, Quviatsugvik: In Search of Harmony. Unlike traditional holiday music, their Inuit throat singing takes the familiar melodies to an eerie yet spiritually evocative place. Growing up in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories with roots in Nunavut, the PIQSIQ sisters have learned to see two perspectives at once. PIQSIQ incorporates improvisational looping while embodying Indigenous experience. In Inuktitut, PIQSIQ is a type of storm where winds blow in a very specific way, making it look like the snow is falling back up towards the sky.
Playlist
Artist (Song) Album
- Twin Flames (Silent Night)
- Samantha Crain (Breaking The Ice) Fowler Volkswagen Presents: A Blackwatch Christmas
- Los Lonely Boys (Carol Of the Bells) Christmas Spirit
- Star Nayea (Please Come Home For Christmas)
- PIQSIQ (Carol Of the Bells) Quviasugvik: In Search of Harmony
- PIQSIQ (God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen) Quviasugvik: In Search of Harmony
- PIQSIQ (Qimuksiq: Dogsled Ride) Quviasugvik: In Search of Harmony
- Jana Mashonee (O’ Holy Night – Sung in Navajo) American Indian Christmas
- Billy Simard (Santa’s On His Way) A Northern Christmas
- Brulé & Airo (Silent Star Night) Silent Star Night
