Tanya Tagaq is an improvisational throat-singer, avant-garde composer, and experimental recording artist who won the 2014 Polaris Music Prize for her album Animism, a work that disrupted the music world in Canada and beyond with its powerfully original vision. She has been touring and collaborating with an elite international circle of artists for over a decade. Recent projects have pulled her in vastly different directions, from contributing guest vocals to a song by F**ked Up (a hardcore punk band from Toronto) to premiering a composition made for Kronos Quartet’s Fifty for the Future collection and composing a piece for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Split Tooth is Tagaq’s first book. Website: tanyatagaq.com. Twitter @tagaq.

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Reviews of Split Tooth:

• “A raw, powerful voice breathes fresh air into traditional Inuit folklore to create a modern tale of mythological proportions” – In Kirkus Reviews

Interviews:

• “All the vocal sounds you hear in this session are made by Tagaq, based on her interpretation of Inuit throat singing. It’s an ancient tradition that was originally performed as a friendly competition between two women, and that Tagaq has brought into punk and electronica” – On NPR
• “Tagaq is hugely creative and seems to switch effortlessly between mediums including composition, performance, visual arts, activism, writing and public speaking” – In the Guardian