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Eskimo | ||||
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Released | September 26, 1979 | |||
Recorded | April 1976 – May 1979 | |||
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Length | 39:01 | |||
Label | Ralph | |||
Producer | The Residents | |||
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Eskimo is the sixth studio album by American art rock group the Residents.[2][3] 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.
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text detailing a corresponding pseudo-ethnographic narrative.[4] While Eskimo is officially maintained to be a true historical document of life in the Arctic, the stories are deliberately absurd fictions only loosely based in actual Inuit culture, and the chanting is a combination of gibberish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.[5]
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