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The Residents

Eskimo: Deconstructed (40th Anniversary Set 2LP + CD)

LabelNew Ralph Too, Cherry Red, MVD Audio

Format2LP + CD

GenreElectronic

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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.    

Details
Cat. number: NRTLP008D
Year: 2019

Format

Notes from hype sticker on shrink wrap:

"40th Anniversary 2LP/CD Set - Over seventy chants, rhythms, sound effects and musical passages from the anthropological ambient masterpiece..."

Notes from back sleeve:

"Two LPs containing the chants, atmospheres, sound effects, rhythms and musical passages which make up the original album:"

"Plus: a CD containing genuine arctic storm and atmospheric field recordings the Residents harvested back in the late ‘70s."

The LPs are housed in standard black inner sleeves.

The CD comes in a printed cardboard sleeve.

℗ & © 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red and MVD Entertainment.

Release notes

Notes from hype sticker on shrink wrap: "40th Anniversary 2LP/CD Set - Over seventy chants, rhythms, sound effects and musical passages from the anthropological ambient masterpiece..." Notes from back sleeve: "Two LPs containing the chants, atmospheres, sound effects, rhythms and musical passages which make up the original album:" "Plus: a CD containing genuine arctic storm and atmospheric field recordings the Residents harvested back in the late ‘70s." The LPs are housed in standard black…

Tracklist
A1Mysterious Chant #1
A2Ga Ga Ga
A3Neki Neki
A4Catch ‘Em Up
A5Mysterious Chant #2
A6Ooh Wit Aah Stomp
A7Something Interrupts The Chatter
A8Hunt Field Recording
A9Crank
A10Meat
A11Mysterious / Indigenous Song
A12North Western Poem #1
A13Residents Poem #1
A14Dodgers All The Way!
A15Break
A16Commercial Chant
A17Studio Argument
A18North Western Poem #2
A19Squeeze
A20Indigenous Chant #1
A21Two Amused Hunters Impersonate The Residents
A22Asked
A23Driven
A24An Amused Hunter Impersonates Player
A25Life
A26We Don’t Know How To Prey
B1'Eskimo' Theme
B2Synthesiser Pad #1
B3Six Inuit Musicians Impersonate The Residents
B4Birth Field Recording Extract
B5Album Finale Version One
B6Ancient Whale Chant
B7A Musician Plays Kooa For Us (At Daybreak)
B8Unknown Indigenous Poem & Synthesiser
B9Kooa Musician At Daybreak Take 2
B10The Residents Rehearse An Old Northwestern Play
B11Album Finale Version Two
C1Commercial Rhythm & Pooeye
C2Rounding Up Hunters
C3Wounded And Dragged Ashore
C4Floating Downstream
C5An Excited Welcome!
C6Segook And Ooluksak Rehearsal
C7The Hunt Accelerates Towards A Kill
C8Possibly Another Birth
C9A Communal Clapalong
C10Angakok Sermon
C11The Residents Greeted One By One
C12Atseak Orchestra
C13Grumbling
C14Bells And Whistles Rhythm
C15The Sled Chase
C16Drums And Horns
C17Sedrak Piece Draws A Crowd
C18The Lone Lookout
D1Train Ride
D2Creaking In The Wind
D3Synthesiser Pad #2 And Whistlin’
D4Water’s Edge Ritual And Overdubs
D5Drone Piece #1
D6Tape Speed Play Improv
D7Twinklz
D8Dogs
D9Drone Piece #2
D10Whistle While You Walk
D11Water’s Edge Field Recording
D12Synth Bang
D13Synth Swell
D14Bell
D15Sonar Communications
D16Low Synth Rises Up
D17We All Stomp
D18Somebody’s Abstract Piece
CD-1Arctic Field Recordings60:03
Credits
Poor No Grafix
Design [With], Layout [With]
Paul Bevoir
Design, Layout
Ra
Edited By [Assisted By]
Oli Hemingway
Mastered By (CD-1)
Scott Colburn
Mastered By [Mastered For Disc By] (A1 to D18)
The Residents
Performer, Recorded By, Producer, Edited By [De-Constructed]