{"id":23717,"date":"2026-01-14T17:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23717"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:13:15","slug":"tanya-tagaq-set-to-release-new-album-saputjiji-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23717","title":{"rendered":"Tanya Tagaq set to release new album, <em>Saputjiji<\/em>,  in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23718\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tanya-Tagaq-Saputjiji.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New music from incredibly talented improvisational singer, avant-garde composer and bestselling author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tanyatagaq.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tanya Tagaq<\/a> is always wonderful news, and we could not be more excited to know that she has a new album on the way. Entitled <em>Saputjiji<\/em> (Sa-put-yee-yee), which means designated protector, the album was produced by Sumach (Gonjasufi) and longtime drummer and collaborator Jean Martin, and it also features contributions from Jeffrey Ziegler (cello), Kevin Hearn (keys\/synths), Fucked Up\u2019s Damian Abraham (vocals), Patrick O\u2019Reilly (electric guitar), and Celina Kalluk (vocals).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagaq has long used her voice to portray and protest environmental and human rights violations and abuse and <em>Saputjiji<\/em> is no different. Described as &#8220;a potent counter-strike against billionaires, genocide, abuse and colonial systems&#8221;, on the upcoming album Tagaq &#8220;aim[s] straight at the jugular of the military-industrial-capitalist-tech powers of the times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We&#8217;ll have to wait until March 6th for <em>Saputjiji<\/em> to be out through <a href=\"https:\/\/store.sixshooterrecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Six Shooter<\/a> but we can already hear the powerful and purposeful first single, &#8216;Foxtrot&#8217;, featuring vocals by Damian Abraham. Take a listen now.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2227523168&amp;color=%23c41709&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Tanya Tagaq\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/tanya-tagaq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tanya Tagaq<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Foxtrot\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/tanya-tagaq\/foxtrot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foxtrot<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New music from incredibly talented improvisational singer, avant-garde composer and bestselling author Tanya Tagaq is always wonderful news, and we could not be more excited to know that she has a new album on the way. Entitled Saputjiji (Sa-put-yee-yee), which means designated protector, the album was produced by Sumach (Gonjasufi) and longtime drummer and collaborator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1182],"class_list":["post-23717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-tanya-tagaq"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23720,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23717\/revisions\/23720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}