Eskimo Folk Tales è il mini-album con cui The Residents riprendono e rilanciano uno dei loro indimenticabili capolavori, Eskimo (1979), prodotto in vinile da New Ralph/Cherry Red appena in tempo per accompagnare il lungo tour d'autunno negli Stati Uniti. Brani nuovi, con molti ovvi riferimenti agli originali, e una travolgente dimensione percussiva: The Barren Woman And The Worm, The Old Woman And The Skull, A Tale Of Two Tupilaqs, The Fool Who Made Friends With A Stone, The Skeleton At The Bottom Of The Sea e The Arctic Fox.
In the 1970s, as The Residents worked on their Eskimo masterpiece, their mentor The Mysterious N. Senada sent them a collection of handwritten Inuit folk tales, suggesting they incorporate them into the album. But the group shelved them, having gathered more than enough stuff themselves by that point, leaving them to gather dust. Here and now, almost 50 years later, The Residents have revived those folk tales as part of their forthcoming Eskimo live performance, blending them with familiar elements of the original Eskimo album and new music to produce the soon-to-be-classic show. We present a studio recording of those new songs, alongside read-along stories, as written down by Senada almost half a century ago. This is not a new side of Eskimo, but a modern interpretation of material which might, in another universe, have found its way onto the original.
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