The Invisible Voices of Arctic Indigenous Peoples

Over several years, I recorded the chants of indigenous Arctic peoples and gathered them into an album. Their voices are resonant with the vastness of landscapes far removed from civilisation and an endless bond with Nature.

Dominant cultures have grown accustomed to hearing their own language everywhere - spoken in public spaces, written on signs, embedded within institutions, and broadcast across the media.
Indigenous languages are rarely afforded that space.

Yet the languages of Arctic Indigenous peoples are in no way inferior in richness of imagery, depth of meaning, or philosophical subtlety. They contain ways of describing reality and the natural world that could profoundly enrich contemporary human vocabulary.

A refinement of perception - of land, of climate, of interdependence - is something our world urgently lacks.

People from Arctic Indigenous communities do not exist solely in a state of vulnerability. Within these communities there are also LGBTQ+ individuals, neurodivergent people, and those with distinct physical or social characteristics. This layered vulnerability remains largely unseen and is rarely addressed in mainstream media.

Their voices continue to sound.
Yet the wider world does not listen.

They are often reduced to the abstract term “Indigenous peoples”, whereas in reality there are more than forty distinct nations - each with its own history, language and identity.