Various Artists - Musique Inuit (Jean Malaurie - From Thule to the Bering Strait) (2025)

These recordings, made between 1960 and 1987 by Jean Malaurie during many missions to the Far North, are intended to use their music to reveal the heart and spirit of the Inuit people, forged in a demanding environment. The Inuit live in one of the world's most vast areas. From Siberia -their homeland- to Greenland, they occupy some of the most desolate icy deserts on the planet. Inuit civilisation has adapted to it's terrible environment in one of the greatest challenges of courage and wisdom in human history. Through songs and drums (warrior choruses, throat singing, poignant melodies), the Inuit bear witness to their myths and legends, their identity, their hidden being and their strength in the midst of desolate spaces that would have driven the weakest characters to despair.

Tracklist:
1-1 Imina - Quatre chants (Siorapaluk thulé) [4:44]
1-2 Kujakitsoq - Trois chants (Qaanaaq thulé) [4:21]
1-3 Nivikannguaq - Chant I (Siorapaluk thulé) [0:19]
1-4 Sakaeunnguaq - Chant Siorapaluk Thulé [0:55]
1-5 Sakaeunnguaq - Quatre chants Siorapaluk Thulé [4:20]
1-6 Sakaeunnguaq - Chant de son père (Nukapianguaq) [0:51]
1-7 Bertsie - Berceuse (Siorapaluk thulé) [1:21]
1-8 Tatsiannguassuaq - Quatre chants (Qeqertarsuaq thulé) [2:26]
1-9 Bertsie - Chant III (Siorapaluk thulé) [0:44]
1-10 Nivikannguaq - Chant II (Siorapaluk thulé) [0:28]
1-11 Imina - Chant (Siorapaluk thulé) [1:27]
1-12 Iglulik - Chant d'Iglulik (Baie d'hudson) [1:48]
1-13 Iglulik - Deux chants (Baie d'hudson) [3:54]
1-14 Awa - Deux chants (Naajaruluk iglulik baie d'hudson) [1:58]
1-15 Iglulik - Deux chants de femme Iglulik (Baie d'hudson) [0:54]
1-16 Jeannie Manning;Elisa Kilabuk - Quatre chants de gorge (Iqaluit) [2:02]
1-17 Spence Bay - Chant de Taloyoak (Péninsule de boothia) [2:03]
1-18 Teerta - Chant Taloyoak I (Péninsule de boothia) [7:53]
1-19 Teerta - Chant Taloyoak II (Péninsule de boothia) [2:18]
1-20 Niki Wangitillin - Sept chants Savoonga (Ile st-Laurent détroit de béring) [8:25]
1-21 Niki Wangitillin - Deux chants Savoonga (Ile st-Laurent detroit de béring) [2:58]
1-22 Savoonga - Chant d'allégresse Savoonga (Ile st-Laurent détroit de béring) [1:05]
1-23 Logan Annarayak;Savoonga - Deux chants de Savoonga [1:23]
1-24 Logan Annarayak - Chant 1 (Savoonga ile st-Laurent détroit de béring) [1:58]
1-25 Logan Annarayak - Deux chants de Savoonga II (Ile st-Laurent détroit de béring) [4:44]
1-26 Logan Annarayak - Chant Savoonga III (Ile st-Laurent détroit de béring) [1:35]
1-27 Logan Annarayak - Trois chants (Savoonga ile st-Laurent détroit de béring) [1:11]
1-28 Chevak - Chants et tambours [2:42]