The Residents - 1979 - Eskimo [Flac] torrent

Residents, The ‎– Eskimo
Label:
Torso ‎– TORSO CD 404, Cryptic Corporation ‎– TORSO CD 404
Series:
Residents Classic Series –
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Experimental

Tracklist Hide

1 The Walrus Hunt 3:45
2 Birth 4:55
3 Arctic Hysteria 5:50
4 The Angry Angakok 5:34
5 A Spirit Steals A Child 8:55
6 The Festival Of Death 10:22


Review by Ted Mills
The most rewarding, the most difficult, and the most accomplished of all the Residents' albums, this was their departure into the field of imaginary ethno-musicography that they had begun on "Six Things to a Cycle" on Fingerprince. Ostensibly a musical documentary on the Eskimo, this is an album of icy atmospheres, poetic electronics, and imaginary landscapes,concocted around a loose narrative told in the liner notes. There's also a subtheme of indigenous populations overrun by western commercialism (is that native chant actually "Coca Cola is Life"?). Ex-Henry Cow member Chris Cutler plays a lot
of the percussion on the album, especially on the finale, "Festival of Death," the only real piece of rhythmic music here, which shines out as anything but dark or sinister. In any other group's hands this would have been a pretentious disaster, but the Residents pull it off through spirit, humor, and sheer bravado