Eskimo is an album by the Residents. The album was originally supposed to f… Read Full Bio ↴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 While Eskimo is officially maintained to be a true historical document of life in the Arctic, the stories are deliberately absurd fictions only loosely based in actual Inuit culture, and the chanting is a combination of gibberish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.
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 While Eskimo is officially maintained to be a true historical document of life in the Arctic, the stories are deliberately absurd fictions only loosely based in actual Inuit culture, and the chanting is a combination of gibberish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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Eskimo
The Residents Lyrics
A Spirit Steals A Child One of the many strange Eskimo phenomena is the disappearanc…
Arctic Hysteria Arctic hysteria is a phenomenon that occurs in the dead…
Birth Since the most important person in the Eskimo community is…
The Angry Angakok Angakoks, the Eskimo men of magic. are widely held as…
The Festival Of Death Perhaps no holiday is more important to the Eskimo than…
The Walrus Hunt Walrus hunting in kayaks among the floating ice must sometim…
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