Gingerbread Man

by The Residents

Gingerbread Man cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: East Side Digital
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 36:38
  • Community rating: 3.49/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: The Cryptic Corporation

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Originally released as an interactive CD-ROM, 'Gingerbread Man' operates as a dark, psychological concept album focusing on various alienated character archetypes. The avant-garde collective utilizes stark MIDI instrumentation and unsettling spoken word to create a uniquely pessimistic sonic theater.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, suicide, conceptual, atmospheric, alienation, experimental, avant-garde, theatrical, electronic

Tracklist

  1. The Weaver (3:52)
  2. The Dying Oilman (3:14)
  3. The Confused Transsexual (3:13)
  4. The Sold-Out Artist (3:47)
  5. The Ascetic (4:08)
  6. The Old Soldier (3:32)
  7. The Aging Musician (4:52)
  8. The Butcher (3:05)
  9. The Old Woman (4:32)
  10. Ginger's Lament (2:23)

Credits

  • The Residents - primary artist, written-by, performer
  • Leigh Barbier - artwork [character head sculptures]
  • Pore No Graphics - cover [cover art]
  • Diana Alden - voice [additional character voices]
  • Isabelle Barbier - voice [additional character voices]
  • Laurie Amat - voice [additional character voices]
  • Molly Harvey - voice [additional character voices]
  • Todd Rundgren - voice [additional character voices]

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