…features five “brand new recordings based on original folk tales handed to The Residents by The Mysterious N. Senada” in the 1970s, as well as a bonus sixth track, “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…
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