Inuktitut

Description

Elisapie, ambassador of Indigenous voices from the Canadian Far North, reinterprets the legendary songs of her childhood! Elisapie embodies a certain musical elegance and a feminism ahead of its time. With this new album, the singer, who grew up in Salluit, a small village in Nunavik, the northernmost region of Quebec, revisits 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 by legendary bands and artists (Blondie, Metallica, Cyndi Lauper, Queen, Pink Floyd,…). These reinterpreted classics are sung in Inuktitut, her native language. This translation gives rise to an unprecedented strength and poetry. A devoted activist and a prominent figure in Canada, her unconditional attachment to her land and language is at the heart of her creative journey and thus her work. This millennia-old language embodies the harshness of the environment and the fierce beauty of the Inuit territory. This album is the fruit 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 acclaimed the sheer beauty of her versions of "Heart of Glass" and "The Unforgiven."