Album
Eskimo
1979 · Electronic
10 collectors on Gatefold own this
Eskimo is an Electronic album by The Residents, originally released in 1979. On Gatefold: 52 pressings tracked, owned by 10 collectors.
About
Eskimo is an album by the Residents. The album was originally supposed to follow 1977's Fingerprince; however, due to many delays and arguments with management, it was not released until 1979. Upon release it was hailed as the group's best record to date. The pieces on Eskimo feature home-made instruments and chanting against backdrops of wind-like synthesizer noise and miscellaneous sound effects. The work is programmatic, each piece pairing music with text detailing a corresponding pseudo-ethnographic narrative. While Eskimo is officially maintained to be a true historical document of life in the Arctic, the stories are deliberately absurd fictions only loosely based in actual Inuit culture, and the chanting is a combination of gibberish and commercial slogans. The album satirizes ignorance toward and mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1The Walrus Hunt
- A2Birth
- A3Arctic Hysteria
- A4The Angry Angakok
Side B
- B1A Spirit Steals A Child
- B2The Festival Of Death
Sound DNA
- Electronic
- Ambient & Downtempo
- cavernous
- eerie
- occult
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Chris CutlerDRUMS DRUMS , GUEST GUEST , DRUMS
- Don PrestonGUEST , SYNTHESIZER GUEST, SYNTHESIZER SYNTHESIZER
- SnakefingerFEATURING
- The ResidentsARRANGED BY, VOCALS, PERFORMER , OTHER , OTHER ARRANGED BY, VOCALS, PERFORMER , TEXT BY , TECHNICIAN COMPOSED BY, ARRANGED BY, PERFORMER
- Fred FrithGUITAR
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