From Elisapie’s Inuktitut (2023) Album which was a nominee for the 2025 JUNO Album of the Year award. The album features Inukitut language covers of various classic songs that Elisapie described as having significant personal memory related to. She viewed this project as an opportunity for building bridges between Inuit and non-inuit cultures.
This song in particular is a cover of the famous (and my personal favourite) Leonard Cohen Song Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye (1967).
It is, I just updated the body text to give context! The entire album is covers of famous songs but in Inuktitut, one of the more common Inuit languages of Canada.
I think the translation work and singing is outstanding, and its a little surreal hearing music that is so familiar to me being sung in a completely different & non-romanic origin language.