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Red Eskimo

About Me

Welcome to the humble abode of Red Eskimo.
We are a music production company specialising in music to picture in its myriad forms. Red Eskimo is a collection of talented musicians, composers, producers and engineers, some permanent fixtures, others in more of a cameo role, but all with a common goal; to make great sounding music. Our home is within the confines of Phoenix Sound , a particularly fine recording studio now residing at Pinewood Studios.
We don’t however restrict ourselves to the world of the underscore. Many of our contributors have worked with the great and good of the record making glitterati and our influences in the records we make have a strong effect on the music we write for other purposes.
We have set out on this narrow path, perilously clinging to two pillars of truth:
Firstly, real musicians sound better than samples. Hopefully you'll agree that the life in our music reflects the blood flowing through the veins of the people that made the noises. Not that we're adverse to some fine quality programming of course (some of us have very square eyes), but there will pretty much always be some organic matter on the end of an instrument/tea-tray in what we create.
And secondly, music is better if the people making it also happen to like it. There's nothing worse than music as wallpaper, hastily slapped up to cover the cracks. We always try to make something that is enjoyable in its own right. Not necessarily to draw attention to itself, but to respectfully complement the work it is a part of.
If you like what you hear, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us at [email protected] .
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 30/04/2006
Band Website: www.redeskimo.co.uk
Influences: The Eskimo is currently listening to: Air Autechre The Arcade Fire Craig Armstrong Angelo Badalamenti Bjork Jeff Buckley Nick Cave The Cinematic Orchestra The Cinematic Underground Alexandre Desplat The Divine Comedy Danny Elfman DJ Shadow Godspeed You! Black Emperor The Killers Mansun Mogwai Thomas Newman Jim O'Rourke Queens Of The Stone Age Radiohead The Smashing Pumpkins Elliott Smith Sigur Ros Tom Waits Brian Wilson Rufus Wainwright Frank Zappa John Zorn

Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Become a fan on Facebook!

If you're too middle class for myspace then fear not as you can now become an eskimo fan on facebook. To be perfectly honest, that page will probably get updated more often than this one. The flashi...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:41:00 GMT

Picture This Update

The eskimo has gotten a little behind the times on the updates, but here's an attempt to make up for that..At the beginning of this year we finished the music for Channel 4 series 'Picture This', comp...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:09:00 GMT

Picture This

Latest update from the Red Eskimo camp...We are pleased to announce that Red Eskimo has been comissionned to create the music for "Picture This", an upcoming channel four documentary.We have been busy...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:26:00 GMT

Aller-Retour

We've all been busy eskimos recently and have completed the score for a few short films. The first of these; 'Aller-Retour' directed by Magali Moreau, is now complete.The full length version of the f...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:18:00 GMT

Track Of The Month - Post Rock 1

it's been up here for a while, but for sake of an excuse to write about it, track of the coming month is...... da da da daaah..post rock 1a large pinch of sigur ros mixed with our favourite combinatio...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:33:00 GMT

Watching Kites with Jeremy

A new track uploaded, a semi-improvised impressionistic solo piano piece.Not sure if the Kites are the string-controlled type or a bird variety.Perhaps both.
Posted by on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:54:00 GMT

Eskimo Words for Snow

There have been heated debates, and furrowed brows, but once again Wikipedia has ended all the fuss:Eskimos don't have appreciably more words for snow than any other language.Its all lies."There are t...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:39:00 GMT

Revised Standards

New track uploaded.The composition started off with the angular upright bass ostinato that runs throughout. It was decided that the only sensible way to augment this line would be with a marker pen sq...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:44:00 GMT

Non-Transferable Skillset

There is set to be a blizzard of Eskimo related activity over the coming weeks and months, and here are the first flakes of snow...A new track has been uploaded, hot off the Red Eskimo production line...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 06:40:00 GMT

A Grand Round-Up

Well, it's been a while since our last blog - so a lot to update you on..On the composition side of things we have recently licensed one of our tracks Every Time I Turn Around for use in feature film...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:24:00 GMT