[IPSM] September 22 - Kinnie Starr & Tanya Tagaq

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Kinnie Starr
Tanya Tagaq

*MC-singer-poet-actress-beatnik-musicmaker Kinnie Starr with Tanya Tagaq,
one of the North's most interesting and accomplished young performers.*

 Friday, September 22, 2006

Main Hall (5390 St. Laurent)

Doors at 8:30 p.m., show at 9 p.m. $15



  *Kinnie Starr*

MC-singer-poet-actress-beatnik - musicmaker - who was born in Calgary,
became her adult self in Vancouver, and was raised on heavy doses of
Zeppelin, Sade and De La Soul's Daisy Age.... Discovered she could kick it
live one night in NYC (1993), when an open mic called, and the crowd carried
her through three blazing encores ("edgy... enchanting," said the New
Yorker).... Tidy (Canada 1996; U.S.A. 1997) was the first of Starr's four
records - her new one is called Anything, but we'll get there in a minute -
which drew critical acclaim from all corners. "An artistic, feminist, angry,
well-articulated rant of the highest order," said allmusic.com; "raw, funny
and definitely an original," added the Globe and Mail....

Kinnie Starr does what she does best on her new album, *Anything*, and
that's run the gamut from hip-hop to alternative rock to pop – often in one
song. The main recipe here is rapped versus followed by full on pop
choruses, and while the blueprint sounds sketchy on paper, Starr generally
makes it work.

'La Le La La' is the prototype. Joined by Tegan Quin from Tegan and Sara,
it's Starr's most blatantly pop song, and it's also her best. Kicking off
with cheesy synths and holding down a solid Go Go's vibe throughout, it's
brainless but at least it's fun. That's the problem with the rest of the
album – it's obvious that Starr is talented, but she rarely sounds like
she's enjoying it. She spends so much time trying to prove herself ("I like
writing rhymes but I'm not supposed to / writing rhymes is not what fair
skinned girls do") that the effect is reversed. She's sabotaging her own
mission.

Starr is incredibly talented, and each album she puts out is worth hearing.
*Anything *is no exception. Her unique genre-blending works seamlessly, but
lyrically the album leaves something to be desired.

 www.kinniestarr.com



*Tanya Tagaq*

Tanya Tagaq Gillis was born and raised in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. She left
when 15 to attend Sir John Franklin High School. Continuing her education,
she attained her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art
and Design.

During her final year of school, weary then of "southern" culture and
yearning for home, she began emulating tapes of throat singing her mother
had sent her. Throat singing is a traditional vocal game between two women.
Since Tagaq had no partner to sing with, this was the beginning of the
development of her contemporary and emotional style of throat singing. She
has since sang on festival stages, in opera houses and mosoleums throughout
the world. She has collaborated with the likes of Bjork and Kronos Quartet.


www.tanyatagaq.com
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