Poster for Silla and Rise performance featuring a orange and yellow first quarter moon in the centre. Many Moons video concert series. August 15, 2021 (First quarter). manymoonsconcerts.com.
Video premiere: August 15, 2021 ◑ First quarter
Silla and Rise are a musical group consisting of members of the Inuit throat-singing group Silla performing alongside global-grooves producer/percussionist Rise Ashen. Performing with Rise since 2015, Silla’s members Charlotte Qamaniq, Cynthia Pitsiulak and Charlotte Carleton, who all hail from Nunavut, have worked to place traditional throat singing into a modern context and keep it thriving in spite of the historical and modern threats posed by colonialism. Rise’s musical vision was forged at the crossroads of underground dance music and world music – he brings together a broad spectrum of musical ideas from different cultures – the common thread of these genres being a driving beat integrated with the rhythmic nature of katajjaq.