Women of Povungnituk - Inuit Throat and Harp Songs Eskimo [Inuit] Women's Music of Puvirnituq [Povungnituk], Nunavik [Arctic Quebec]. Canadian Music Heritage Collection. Singers: Alasi Alasuak,Lucy Amarualik, Alaci Tulaugak, Nellie Nungak and Mary Sivuarapik, Puvirnituq [Povungnituk], Nunavik [Arctic Quebec] Producer: Marvin Green Recording engineer: Paul Hodge COVER NOTES This recording presents the katadjait, or throat songs, of the women of Povungituk, a village on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in the Canadian Arctic. Katadjait are duets performed by women who stand close together to produce gutteral vocal sounds through voice manipulation and breathing techniques. In some communities katadjait have texts with intelligible meanings; elsewhere "meaningless" syllables are used. The women perform standing face to face, normally in pairs (although occasionally a group of four women perform together). The Povungituk katadjait do not have meaningful texts, but the unintelligible syllables known as "vocables". One can listen to tracks on the below website link. http://www.ccca.ca/inuit/english/inuit_audio.html?languagePref=en& <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/+noredirect/Women+of+Povungnituk">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.