Inuktitut

Description

Elisapie, ambassador of the indigenous voices of the Canadian North, revisits the iconic songs of her childhood!
Elisapie embodies a certain musical elegance and a feminism ahead of her time. With this new album, the singer who grew up in Salluit, a small village in Nunavik, the northernmost region of Quebec, reflects on her childhood and adolescence by exploring her favorite songs that helped her emancipate as a woman and as an artist. The challenge was great to revisit these timeless songs from legendary groups or artists (Blondie, Metallica, Cindy Lauper, Queen, Pink Floyd,…) These reinterpreted classics are sung in Inuktitut, her native language. From this translation arises an unprecedented strength and poetry. A dedicated activist, an essential figure in Canada, her unconditional attachment to her territory and her language is at the heart of her creative journey and thus her work. This ancient language embodies the harshness of the environment and the fierce beauty of the Inuit territory. This album is the result of all this: a constellation of memories as sensitive as they are dreamlike. Upon the release of the singles Uummati Attanarsimat and Isumagijunnaitaungituq, Debbie Harry (Blondie) and the band Metallica praise all the beauty of the versions of Heart of Glass and The Unforgiven.