A Bayonet of Truth for Your Ears: Tanya Tagaq Releases Two-Word Protocol
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Saputjiji out March 6, 2026
Photo credit: Sebastian Buzzalino
“borderline terrifying but also a bit mesmerizing.” - Stereogum
“righteous industrial terror” - Beatsperminue
“Tagaq’s music has been getting progressively more pissed” - LoudWomen
“a rather significant rather forceful first bite” - The Organ
Today, Tanya Tagaq unleashes the opening song from her forthcoming album Saputjiji. Explicit in all ways, the track is a no-holds-barred baseline in two words.
“The song embodies the frustration of how we feel powerless with things going wrong in the world.” Read the full statement on Tanya’s Instagram.
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TOUR DATES
02/19/26 Budapest, HU - House of Music (trio)
02/27/26 Hamburg, DE - Elbphilharmonie Hamburg (trio)
03/03/26 Berlin, DE - Berghain (trio)
03/06/26 London, UK - Institute of Contemporary Arts (trio)
For tickets and show details, visit tanyatagaq.com
ABOUT TANYA TAGAQ
Saputjiji (Sa-put-yee-yee) smells good, like burnt gunpowder, notes of deet and two-stroke engine exhaust. Stand at attention, breathe it in. Tagaq goes where others dare not. The opposite of escapism, her art goes towards and penetrates what we run from. On 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.
Tagaq’s creative worlds further interlock with a second forthcoming project, Split Tooth: Saputjiji, a new stage production that will premiere in 2026. A work of visceral and cyclonic power, Split Tooth: Saputjiji merges vocal soundscapes into a stage environment that blurs music and memory, land and breath, body and cosmos. Directed by Kaneza Schaal, known for her boundary-breaking work in opera and theatre, the show carries the book’s lyrical power into the future through mythic realism, and climbs the iron girders of the past with polar bear claws.
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.
