She addresses all forms of rape - of women, of the land - while demanding justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women, as well as Indigenous peoples who've had their land and rights removed over centuries of abuse. The warmth of "Centre" is worth savouring and returning to, since Retribution itself is, in Tagaq's words, a record about rape. Tanya Tagaq performs 'Centre' with Shad at Feheley Fine Arts. Dressed in a ceremonial amautiq (a traditional women's parka) made by Rankin Inlet artist Salome Kalaserk and borrowed from the gallery, Tagaq is radiant, sidling up to Shad, the beads of her amautiq swaying, as she lays a bed of throat-singing for his verses sit atop. Tagaq and Shad, along with producer/violinist Jesse Zubot and drummer Jean Martin, jump into their second take of "Centre," which was filmed as part of CBC Music's First Play Live session for Tagaq's upcoming Oct. Her four albums to date, including 2014's Polaris Prize-winning Animism, have contained songs (often without lyrics), but Tagaq's recorded work, when performed live, takes a different form: one that's improvised, unpredictable and unreplicable. The Inuk throat singer and rapper officially released the track - their first collaboration together - at the beginning of September, and it's the first live work of Tagaq's that she has been calling a definitive "song": something with a beginning, middle and end, with a set length and lyrics (both hers and Shad's). I want to feel safe.Tanya Tagaq squeals with delight, jumping up and down in the main showroom of the Feheley Fine Arts gallery in Toronto, where she and Shad have just recorded their first live performance of "Centre." Haunches bared, teeth sharpened, wide-eyed and aware. Heal me, fuck me, and work my heart till she beats strong and unafraid. Tattoo me with a needle and impale me with your warmth. Take me while I am ripe and open, rub berries on my lips and bear fat in my hair. In her perfect glory she is shy and extroverted, chaste and perverted, my sweet near-death more alive than ever. They all see my rabbit and I have trained her to hunt. The lightning comes from below this time and rips out of my throat for the world to see. I fear and quake with my eyes darting fight or flight love or die.
I can shut off my heart but that leads to evil, so I express her and revel in the nuance of blood currents, and the sacred demons. I can drink lightness because it is the only way to survive. I can recognize darkness because he is my brother, my maker. When your body is clear you can choose whom to let in. “When your body is clear there is control.
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