Simple and Wild

Hey gang! We know we’ve been hyping this for months but the day is finally here! Eskimeaux’s album, “OK,” is finally out in the wild for you to have on your device (INCLUDING RECORD PLAYERS AND CASSETTE PLAYERS!), whenever you want! 

We’re so proud of Gabrielle and everyone on our side who was involved. Some notable names are Jack Greenleaf, of Sharpless and Small Wonder, Susannah Cutler, of Yours Are The Only Ears, Trace Mountains, (and her amazing artist self!), Felix Walworth, of Told Slant (and every other Epoch band!) and of course Oliver from Bellows,  & Told Slant. Big ups to Frankie, who may be a hoarder and a hog, but is the best dog, and our mascot!

Special thanks and recognition to Double Double Whammy for their knowledge and tenacity in seeing this baby out into the world! We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again – they’ve released some of our favorite things from some of our favorite people in the past few years and it’s our pleasure to be involved with them!

We’ve got a few links for you to check out:

The first two are the links for physical albums, if that is your way:

The vinyl album can be found at Double Double Whammy’s webstore, of course:

http://store.dbldblwhmmy.com/products/546627-eskimeaux-o-k-lp-cd-mp3-pre-order

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The VERY limited cassette is available through Mt. Home Arts:

http://www.mthomearts.com/products/547867-eskimeaux-o-k

The third is the Eskimeaux bandcamp, for those of you who have foregone this physical realm! If you poke around long enough, you’ll find Gabrielle’s DEEP bench of albums and singles – we hope you’ll explore and enjoy:

https://eskimeaux.bandcamp.com/

And thanks to all of you who are even slightly interested in us – we make art for ourselves; because we need to – but the fact that anyone is interested in what we feel or say is an honor and a gift. 2015 has more surprises in store. Like “Wendy” last year, “O.K.” is the tip of the iceberg. There’s more to come but we hope you’ll celebrate “O.K.” with us!

The Epoch is Now

Again, the more places this is, and the more people research and share, the less likely it is that posts like this happen.

Original post:

http://eskimeaux.tumblr.com/post/115708470193/on-our-band-name-eskimeaux

Here is another post from 2014 that addresses the faux-name controversy.

http://eskimeaux.tumblr.com/post/76328783256

We’ve copied and pasted the full post for those who don’t want to follow an outside link:

We’ve been subtweet-style called out by a few people in the past couple weeks for using the band name Eskimeaux as a band of four seemingly white people. I wanted to make a post that people can refer to if they’re confused about our band name, so here it is:

I was adopted. The only information I have about my birth family or blood line is that my birth father is Tlingit eskimo. The Tlingit tribe in Alaska considers the designation “eskimo” to be inoffensive and neutral, even preferable to imprecise terns like Inuit (the Tlingit are not Inuit). I chose this moniker as a teenager, in a time when I felt like I had been denied an identity - my Tlingit heritage was the only thing I could hold onto about my cultural history that was real. As a person who had very limited information about where I came from, this was a very powerful idea. The name Eskimeaux is in no way appropriative – I do not seek to utilize or contrive an anglo-fied or whitewashed version of the Tlingit culture. I don’t mystify the Tlingit culture in my imagination. The name is personal to me and I don’t condone non-eskimo people using the term ignorantly.

The other members of my band are not Tlingit. Eskimeaux is my solo project, of which I take full ownership, and the members of the live band had no part in its naming. Eskimeaux is basically me: it’s an empowered persona that has brought me warmth and fulfillment in times of isolation and confusion about my origins.

I find it weird and offensive that people are so quick to police perceived racism from an extremely white-centric perspective. It seems like it never crossed anyone’s mind that I might be connected by blood to the people whose term I’m using (people who use the term “eskimo” in a non-derogatory way) and it sucks that people are so quick to cast stones without doing any research about me or the band name (I actually posted about this a few years ago on tumblr).

This is less important, but the -eaux suffix is just a playful jumble of letters that represents the way I record - a confusing layering of sounds that somehow coalesce into something simple.