A unique unwrapping of one of the great artistic achievements of 20th Century music.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of 'Eskimo' The Residents present a unique collection of the album's constituent parts, and encourage their public to remix and rework the album. Including over seventy individual musical elements, chants, loops and sound effects recorded on location by the group in the mid-late 1970s, plus a backing CD of Arctic wind noise, this remarkable set provides unprecedented insight into the three years' recording and construction of a legendary album, and an opportunity for fans to ''walk around inside a masterpiece, the viewing angles almost infinite''. Conceived by The Residents partly in response to their satisfaction with the successful 'I AM A RESIDENT' project and their fans' musical abilities, and with their own love of interfering with the music of their heroes in mind, 'Eskimo (Deconstructed)' represents a first. Never before has a band peeled back the layers of one of their finest works in such microscopic detail, and made those highly intimate elements available to the public to re-interpret as they choose. Sure, it's a classic, and this is undoubtedly sacrilege, but consider this a chance to screw with The Residents' music just like they've been screwing with everybody else's for almost fifty years now. 'Eskimo (Deconstructed)' is the latest in a series of archival Residents reissues that will continue throughout 2019 and beyond. Look out for 'American Composers Series', 'God In 3 Persons' and 'Cube-E' sets, coming soon.
Also includes one hour CD of Arctic wind backgrounds
The classic ambient masterpiece deconstructed - over seventy loops, chants, musical fragments and sound effects extracted from the original multitrack tapes and spread across four sides of vinyl.
Re-construct and re-mix 'Eskimo' at your leisure!
Disc: 1
1. Mysterious Chant #1
2. Ga Ga Ga
3. Neki Neki
4. Catch 'em Up
5. Mysterious Chant #2
6. Ohh Wit Ash Stomp
7. Something Interrupts the Chatter
8. Hunt Field Recording
9. Crank
10. Meat
11. Mysterious/Indigenous Song
12. North Western Poem #1
13. Residents Poem #1
14. Dodgers All The Way
15. Break
16. Commercial Chat
17. Studio Argument
18. North Western Poem #2
19. Squeeze
20. Indigenous Chat #1
21. Two Amused Hunters Impersonate the Residents
22. Asked
23. Driven
24. An Amused Hunter Impersonates Player
25. Life
26. We Don't Know How To Prey
27. Eskimo' Theme
28. Synthesiser Pad #1
29. Six Inuit Musicians Impersonate The Residents
30. Birth Field Recording Extract
31. Album Finale Version One
32. Ancient Whale Chant
33. A Musician Plays Kooa For Us (At Daybreak)
34. Unknown Indigenous Poem & Synthesiser
35. Kooa Musician At Daybreak Take 2
36. The Residents Rehearse An Old Northwestern Play
37. Album Finale Version Two
Disc: 2
1. Commercial Rhythm & Pooeye
2. Rounding Up Hunters
3. Wounded and Dragged Ashore
4. Floating Downstream
5. An Excited Welcome
6. Segook and Ooluksak Rehearsal
7. The Hunt Accelerates Towards A Kill
8. Possibly Another Birth
9. A Communal Clapalong
10. Angakok Sermon
11. The Residents Greeted One By One
12. Atseak Orchestra
13. Grumbling
14. Bells And Whistles Rhythm
15. Drums and Horns
16. Sedrak Piece Draws A Crowd
17. The Lone Lookout
18. Train Ride
19. Creaking In The Wind
20. Synthesiser Pad #2 and Whistlin'
21. Water's Edge Ritual and Overdubs
22. Drone Piece #1
23. Tape Speed Play Improv
24. Twinklz
25. Dogs
26. Drone Piece #2
27. Whistle While You Walk
28. Water's Edge Field Recording
29. Synth Bang
30. Synth Swell
31. Bell
32. Sonar Communications
33. Low Synth Rises Up
34. We All Stomp
35. Somebody's Abstract Piece
Disc 3: cd
1. Arctic field recording
