The Residents - Eskimo 1ST ED 1979 Gatefold LP Ralph Records WHITE VINYL
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Description
The Residents
Eskimo
First edition(!) white vinyl LP
Ralph Records (RZ 7906), 1979
Standard VG+ on vinyl, with just one light scratch on B2. Sleeve was well taken care of, with just a few hairline creases on spine and faintly dented/worn bottom right corner—though it looks like the spine has two tiny notches and the ~0.75" stretch of spine between notches dented in, perhaps as a promotional copy signifier? Not sure. Inner sleeve included, but its entire bottom edge is split. Record will be packed separately in new anti-static inner sleeve.
From Wikipedia:
"Eskimo is the sixth studio album by American art rock group the Residents. The album was originally supposed to follow 1977's Fingerprince; however, due to many delays and arguments with management, it was not released until 1979.
The pieces on Eskimo feature home-made instruments and chanting against backdrops of wind-like synthesizer noise and miscellaneous sound effects. The work is programmatic, each piece pairing music with text detailing a corresponding pseudo-ethnographic narrative. While Eskimo is officially maintained to be a true historical document of life in the Arctic, the stories are deliberately absurd fictions only loosely based in actual Inuit culture, and the chanting is a combination of gibberish and commercial slogans. The album satirizes ignorance toward and mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of the Americas."
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