Eskimo Folk Tales

The Residents return with an all-new EP – Six new pieces picking up where their ‘Eskimo’ masterpiece left off! 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. Here is 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.