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Encyclopedia > Eskimo (album)
Eskimo
Eskimo cover
Album by The Residents
Released 1979
Recorded April 1976-May 1979
Genre Arguably avantgarde
Length 39:21
Label Ralph Records
Producer(s) The Residents
Professional reviews
  • AMG (4,5/5) link
The Residents chronology
The Residents Radio Special (1979) Eskimo (1979)
 The Commercial Album
(1980)

Eskimo is an album by The Residents that was originally supposed to follow 1976'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. Image File history File links Theresidentseskimo. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... The Residents The Residents are an avant garde music and visual arts group. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a military practice of deploying an Advanced Guard, a small troop of highly-skilled soldiers which would explore terrain ahead of a large advancing army and plot the course the army would follow. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Ralph Records was The Residents original record label, the name coming from the somewhat colorful phrase calling Ralph on the porcelain telephone. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Residents The Residents are an avant garde music and visual arts group. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... The Residents The Residents are an avant garde music and visual arts group. ... This was a promotional item issued to radio stations shortly before the release of Eskimo. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... The Residents album The Commercial Album, released in 1980, pares down the concept and structure of the average commercial pop song and reduces it to a one-minute redux. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... The Residents The Residents are an avant garde music and visual arts group. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ... Fingerprince is an album by The Residents. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...


Rather than actual songs, the pieces are generally made up of sound effects, occasional playing on home-made instruments and gibberish standing in for actual Inuit. The stories were all created by the group and, despite their claims otherwise, is not meant to be a true historical document of life in the Arctic. Rather it culminates in a criticism of how Western culture dealt a deathblow to the religions and tribal customs of Native Americans. Inuit (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, singular Inuk / ᐃᓄᒃ) is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic coasts of Siberia, Alaska, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Labrador and Greenland (see Eskimo). ...


A companion piece, "Diskomo", was released in 1980 as a 12-inch single, featuring a remix of the songs backed by a disco beat. Rumor has it that The Residents released the hilariously discesque "Diskomo" in order to ridicule their own success with Eskimo, fearing that they became too well known and the Theory of Obscurity was in danger. A follow-up EP Diskomo 2000, featuring the original remix, its b-side ("Goosebump") and several other versions was released in 2000. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... N. Senadas Theory of Obscurity states that the artist can only produce pure art when the expectations and influences of the outside world are not taken into consideration. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...


Track listing

  1. The Walrus Hunt (4.01)
  2. Birth (4.33)
  3. Arctic Hysteria (5.57)
  4. The Angry Angakok (5.20)
  5. A Spirit Steals a Child (8.44)
  6. The Festival of Death (10.26)

Musicians

The Residents The Residents are an avant garde music and visual arts group. ... Multi-instrumentalist Philip Charles Lithman (June 17, 1949 - July 1, 1987), a musician, was born in London, England. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Chris Cutler (born January 4, 1947 in Washington D.C.) is a percussionist, performer, and theorist, and runs the label ReR/Recommended Records. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... Donald Ward Preston also known as Dom DeWilde or Biff Debrie born September 21, 1932 in Flint, Michigan. ... A synthesizer (spelling var. ...

External link

  • Eskimo at RzWeb

  Results from FactBites:
 
Eskimo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (784 words)
Eskimos, or Esquimaux, are terms used to refer to people who inhabit the circumpolar region (excluding Scandinavia and most of Russia, but including the easternmost portions of Siberia).
The Eskimos are related to the Aleuts and the Alutiiq from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska as well as the Sug'piak from the Kodiak Islands and as far as the Prince William Sound in southcentral Alaska.
The term "Eskimo" is an exonym that is not generally used by Eskimos themselves.
Eskimo Joe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (880 words)
Their second album A Song Is A City was released in Australia on May 16, 2004 and the first single "From The Sea" debuted in the ARIA Top 40 as well as reaching the top of the Triple J Net 50 and was voted number 3 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2004.
Despite the fact that the first heat was one of their first gigs playing together, Eskimo Joe won the competition with prizes of a slot on the Livid Festival and a session in a recording studio.
The "Girl" album made the top 40 of the Australian album charts on release and went gold with tracks like "Planet Earth" and "Who Sold Her Out" receiving airplay on Triple J. In addition, some of the band's tracks featured on the TV show The Secret Life Of Us.
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