This page aggregates sample of polar music. We're keeping the definition of that music as open as possible, just centered around the experience of living around the North Pole.
(alphabetized by artist, composition, organization, or whatever seems most important)
John Luther Adams, White Silence. Winter music: composing the North.
Patrick Carrebre, Inuit Games
Chants Rituels Des Nomads De La Taiga, compilation CD (via Jim)
Manfred Eicher's ECM label
Ensemble Polaris ("Canada's premiere Arctic Fusion Band")
Jan Garbarek: a tiny snippet (via Jane Love)
Glen Gould, Solitude Trilogy (The Idea of North, 1967; The Latecomers, 1969; The Quiet In The Land, 1977) (via Brian Lamb)
Brian Lamb's Gould wiki
"Iceman", Terje Isungset (all-ice instruments)
Inuit throat-singing: one directory
Inuit, 55 Historical Recordings: http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1651
Inukshuk, (via Gordon Rumson)
Al Oster, Canadian country singer. nice WFMU post.
Pamyua
Polar Music record label: Wikipedia entry
The Saami people: one discography with samples
Polar musics from Smithsonian Folkways: to sample and purchase online
Throat singing: on the many varieties of throat singing: International Association for Harmonic Singing
Tuva: Friends of Tuva
Wizard Women of the North, compilation CD (via Jim)
Erik Wøllo, Polar Drones and others
This topic began in March 2005, as a post on Bryan Alexander's personal research blog, Infocult. The very rich comment thread there was greatly helpful.
I (Bryan) am also drawing on content initially aggregated into a wiki page, which was deleted by its host. I should have backed it up and mirrored it better: lesson learned. Archive.org didn't have a copy, interestingly, as the host had blocked crawlers: another lesson learned. Google's cache, though, did have a recent copy, which I used to seed this one: still another lesson yadda yadda.
Allies and allied fellow researchers on the Web:
Hugh Blackmer's grand circumpolar page
Brian Lamb connects this with wikis and elearning