Eskimo is an album by American
art rock group
the Residents.[2][3] 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ethnographic narrative.[4] While Eskimo is officially maintained to be a true historical document of life in the Arctic, the stories are deliberately absurd fictions only loosely based in actual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.[5]
Diskomo
A companion piece, Diskomo, was released in 1980 as a 12-inch single, featuring a remix of the songs backed by a disco beat. In 1988, Diskomo was covered by Belgian
new beat group L&O, and retitled "Even Now". Diskomo 2000, a follow-up EP featuring the original remix, its
B-side (Goosebump, a collection of children's songs played on toy musical instruments), and several other versions, was released in 2000. The EP's title track, "Diskomo 2000" redoes Diskomo in the style of "Even Now".