Eskimo Deconstructed
The Residents
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Release Date: 31/05/2019
Including over 70 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.
Disc 1
1: Mysterious Chant #1
2: Ga Ga Ga
3: Neki Neki
4: Catch 'Em Up
5: Mysterious Chant #2
6: Ooh Wit Aah 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 Chant
17: Studio Argument
18: North Western Poem #2
19: Squeeze
20: Indigenous Chant #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: The Sled Chase
16: Drums and Horns
17: Sedrak Piece Draws a Crowd
18: The Lone Lookout
19: Train Ride
20: Creaking in the Wind
21: Synthesiser Pad #2 and Whistlin'
22: Water's Edge Ritual and Overdubs
23: Drone Piece #1
24: Tape Speed Play Improv
25: Twinklz
26: Dogs
27: Drone Piece #2
28: Whistle While You Walk
29: Water's Edge Field Recording
30: Synth Bang
31: Synth Swell
32: Bell
33: Sonar Communications
34: Low Synth Rises Up
35: We All Stomp
36: Somebody's Abstract Piece
Disc 3
1: Arctic Field Recording