All orders placed with us for this remarkable piece of audio archaeology before its release date will be entered into a draw to win signed test pressings of both The Residents’ ‘W***** B***’ and ‘BS’ albums. Each is one of only five copies in existence, the remainder of which reside with The Residents and, of course, in the Eyeball Museum in Bremerhaven, Germany.

• The classic ambient masterpiece deconstructed – over seventy loops, chants, musical fragments and sound effects extracted from the original multitrack tapes and spread across four sides of vinyl.

• Re-construct and re-mix ‘Eskimo’ at your leisure!

• A unique unwrapping of one of the great artistic achievements of 20th Century music.

• Also includes one hour CD of Arctic wind backgrounds.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of ‘Eskimo’ The Residents present a unique collection of the album’s constituent parts, and encourage their public to remix and rework the album.

Including over seventy individual musical elements, chants, loops and sound effects recorded on location by the group in the mid-late 1970s, plus a backing CD of Arctic wind noise, this remarkable set provides unprecedented insight into the three years’ recording and construction of a legendary album, and an opportunity for fans to “walk around inside a masterpiece, the viewing angles almost infinite”.

Conceived by The Residents partly in response to their satisfaction with the successful ‘I AM A RESIDENT’ project and their fans’ musical abilities, and with their own love of interfering with the music of their heroes in mind, ‘Eskimo (Deconstructed)’ represents a first. Never before has a band peeled back the layers of one of their finest works in such microscopic detail, and made those highly intimate elements available to the public to re-interpret as they choose.

Sure, it’s a classic, and this is undoubtedly sacrilege, but consider this a chance to screw with The Residents’ music just like they’ve been screwing with everybody else’s for almost fifty years now. Dig out your sampler and your turntables and dive in!

‘Eskimo (Deconstructed)’ is the latest in a series of archival Residents reissues that will continue throughout 2019 and beyond. Look out for ‘American Composers Series’, ‘God In 3 Persons’ and ‘Cube-E’ sets, coming soon.

Signed Test Pressing

DISC ONE: LP

SIDE ONE

1. MYSTERIOUS CHANT #1

2. GA GA GA

3. NEKI NEKI

4. CATCH ‘EM UP

5. MYSTERIOUS CHANT #2

6. OOH WIT AAH STOMP

7. SOMETHING INTERRUPTS THE CHATTER

8. HUNT FIELD RECORDING

9. CRANK

10. MEAT

11. MYSTERIOUS/INDIGENOUS SONG

12. NORTH WESTERN POEM #1

13. RESIDENTS POEM #1

14. DODGERS ALL THE WAY!

15. BREAK

16. COMMERCIAL CHANT

17. STUDIO ARGUMENT

18. NORTH WESTERN POEM #2

19. SQUEEZE

20. INDIGENOUS CHANT #1

21. TWO AMUSED HUNTERS IMPERSONATE THE RESIDENTS

22. ASKED

23. DRIVEN

24. AN AMUSED HUNTER IMPERSONATES PLAYER

25. LIFE

26. WE DON’T KNOW HOW TO PREY

SIDE TWO

1. ESKIMO’ THEME

2. SYNTHESISER PAD #1

3. SIX INUIT MUSICIANS IMPERSONATE THE RESIDENTS

4. BIRTH FIELD RECORDING EXTRACT

5. ALBUM FINALE VERSION ONE

6. ANCIENT WHALE CHANT

7. A MUSICIAN PLAYS KOOA FOR US (AT DAYBREAK)

8. UNKNOWN INDIGENOUS POEM & SYNTHESISER

9. KOOA MUSICIAN AT DAYBREAK TAKE 2

10. THE RESIDENTS REHEARSE AN OLD NORTHWESTERN PLAY

11. ALBUM FINALE VERSION TWO

DISC TWO: LP

SIDE THREE

1. COMMERCIAL RHYTHM & POOEYE

2. ROUNDING UP HUNTERS

3. WOUNDED AND DRAGGED ASHORE

4. FLOATING DOWNSTREAM

5. AN EXCITED WELCOME!

6. SEGOOK AND OOLUKSAK REHEARSAL

7. THE HUNT ACCELERATES TOWARDS A KILL

8. POSSIBLY ANOTHER BIRTH

9. A COMMUNAL CLAPALONG

10. ANGAKOK SERMON

11. THE RESIDENTS GREETED ONE BY ONE

12. ATSEAK ORCHESTRA

13. GRUMBLING

14. BELLS AND WHISTLES RHYTHM

15. THE SLED CHASE

16. DRUMS AND HORNS

17. SEDRAK PIECE DRAWS A CROWD

18. THE LONE LOOKOUT

SIDE FOUR

1. TRAIN RIDE

2. CREAKING IN THE WIND

3. SYNTHESISER PAD #2 AND WHISTLIN’

4. WATER’S EDGE RITUAL AND OVERDUBS

5. DRONE PIECE #1

6. TAPE SPEED PLAY IMPROV

7. TWINKLZ

8. DOGS

9. DRONE PIECE #2

10. WHISTLE WHILE YOU WALK

11. WATER’S EDGE FIELD RECORDING

12. SYNTH BANG

13. SYNTH SWELL

14. BELL

15. SONAR COMMUNICATIONS

16. LOW SYNTH RISES UP

17. WE ALL STOMP

18. SOMEBODY’S ABSTRACT PIECE

DISC THREE: CD

1. ARCTIC FIELD RECORDING