THE RESIDENTS - Eskimo Folk Tales THE RESIDENTS

The Residents return with an all-new EP featuring six new pieces that pick up where their Eskimo masterpiece left off.Brand new recordings based on original folk tales handed to The Residents by the mysterious N.Senada.Includes individual story texts plus the bonus 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 material themselves by that point, leaving the stories to gather dust.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 album and new music to create a compelling new work.This studio recording presents those new songs alongside the 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.