Organ Thing of the Day; well this one bites. With new single Foxtrot, Tanya Tagaq forcefully introduces her new full-length album with a rather significant rather forceful first bite. The album Saputjiji is due March 6th, 2026 via Six Shooter and at the same time she’s just announced a European tour taking in a London ICA headline show on the album release day. Featuring vocals by Damian Abraham (Fucked Up), the first track of the album is not holding back, Foxtrot weaponises the military alphabet into a protest callsign, go listen, I’m sure you can work it out, it kind of has you itching for more as you feel her understandable rage…

“On Saputjiji (Sa-put-yee-yee), the singular force of Tagaq is more commanding, innovative and pointed than ever, aiming straight at the jugular of the military-industrial-capitalist-tech powers of the times”. 

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The press release…

“Saputjiji, which means designated protector, is a potent counter-strike against billionaires, genocide, abuse and colonial systems. Produced by Sumach (Gonjasufi) and Jean Martin, the songs of Saputjiji have their origins in armour and soft underbellies alike, the hardest and most vulnerable places. With Foxtrot and throughout the album, Tagaq deploys military imagery and convention against itself, Tagaq wields the very tools of power to naturalise and neutralise. 
 
Saputjiji smells good, like burnt gunpowder, notes of deet and two-stroke engine exhaust. Stand at attention, breathe it in. On this new album, Tagaq ventures further with ambient, electronic and filmic sound design elements. From pulsing trip-hop ambience to sonic turbulence, Tagaq’s palate is acidic, tarry, and dissonant, a mouthful of soil contaminated by the poisons of violence, conflict and economic exploitation.  
 
With percussion, synths and organ by producer and longtime drummer/collaborator Jean Martin, drum machine and synth by producer Sumach, Saputjiji also includes contributions from Jeffrey Ziegler (cello), Kevin Hearn (keys/synths), Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham (vocals), Patrick O’Reilly (electric guitar), and Celina Kalluk (vocals).
 
Tagaq’s musical and literary worlds further interlock with a second forthcoming project in 2026, Split Tooth: Saputjiji, a new stage production that will feature songs from the album. Directed by Kaneza Schaal, known for her boundary-breaking work in opera and theatre, the show brings Tagaq’s vocal soundscapes, imagery and creative world into a stage environment that blurs music and memory, land and breath, body and cosmos.

More about Tanya Tagaq:  From Ikaluktutiak (Cambridge Bay, Nunavut*), internationally celebrated artist Tanya Tagaq is an improvisational singer, avant-garde composer and bestselling author. A member of the Order of Canada, Polaris Music Prize and JUNO Award winner and recipient of multiple honorary doctorates, Tagaq is an original disruptor, a world-changing figure at the forefront of seismic social, political and environmental change. On her new album Saputjiji, the singular force of Tagaq is more commanding, innovative and pointed than ever, aiming straight at the jugular of the military-industrial-capitalist-tech powers of the times. 
 
Recent credits, projects and accolades for the award winning composer/author/performer include Tagaq’s soundtrack contribution to Mission Impossible, and film/tv appearances including CBC/Netflix’s North of North and HBO’s True Detective. Tagaq’s first children’s book, It Bears Repeating, recently received a Governor General’s Literary Award nomination and was selected for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. A vocal supporter of #InuitMeToo, Tagaq uses her platforms for justice, solidarity and to encourage discussion of difficult topics.

Tanya Tagaq live dates:
May 2nd – Vancouver, PUSH Festival (Split Tooth: Saputjiji stage show)
Feb 19th – Budapest, House of Music
Feb 27th – Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Mar 3rd – Berlin, Berghain Panorama Bar
Mar 6th – London, Institute of Contemporary Arts

Links:
www.tanyatagaq.com
www.instagram.com/tanyatagaq
www.facebook.com/tanyatagaq
www.youtube.com/tanyatagaq

* Nunavut is Canada’s largest, northernmost, and newest territory, created in 1999 as a homeland for the Inuit, meaning “Our Land” in Inuktitut, with its capital in Iqaluit. Known for its vast, sparsely populated Arctic landscapes, tundra, and mountains, it’s home to about 36,000 people, mostly Inuit, living in remote communities accessible by air or boat. Nunavut is rich in natural resources, something that is almost certainly interesting a certain person…

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