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The Ape Of Naples - 3LP Picture

by Coil

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    limited 555 copies 185g picture 3LP edition, in hotfoil embossed cover, with insert and bonus "Ape" slipmat.

    ATTENTION:
    To avoid later mournings, we want to inform you that picture “vinyl” is no audiophile format, it’s a collectible format.
    Especially for music like Coil with it’s wide stereo spread, swirling high frequencies and deep dronning basses.
    The more stereo and bass, the wider and deeper the grooves have to be, to provide all information to the needle.
    But picture discs have only a very thin plastic-foil over the pictures, it’s no vinyl, just plastic, similar to pet bottles.
    On picture “vinyl” can not be pressed so deep and wide grooves, that it would sound as well as a real vinyl.
    That’s the same for ALL picture LPs, not only Coil.

    General conclusion:
    Of course our picture LP editions are enjoyable for listening too!
    But to get the best sound quality, you should buy black or any coloured transparent vinyl, those sound best.
    For your collection just buy whatever you think looks best.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Ape Of Naples - 3LP Picture via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.     ... more
    ships out within 7 days
    edition of 550 
    Purchasable with gift card

      €75 EUR or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €99.99 EUR  or more

     

1.
Fire Of The Mind 05:14
2.
The Last Amethyst Deceiver 10:11
3.
Tattooed Man 06:33
4.
Triple Sun 03:46
5.
Triple Sun 04:51
6.
I Don't Get It 05:35
7.
Heaven's Blade 04:13
8.
Cold Cell 04:08
9.
Teenage Lightning 2005 07:11
10.
Amber Rain 05:12
11.
Going Up 08:29
12.
I Don't Get It (Untitled Rendered) 05:04
13.
Animal Are You? 11:37
14.
Katcha Falling Star 03:57
15.
Ten Minute TripleSun 10:47
16.
I Don't Get It (Unadorned Mix) 05:34
17.
Heavens blade (mix 1) 06:03
18.
Cold Cell in Bangkok (6 minute version) 06:24
19.
Amber Rain (Drier more Intimate) 05:06
20.
Going up (LIVE better 2) 09:44

about

"The Ape of Naples" is a deeply emotional and uniquely rewarding album. In its immediate accessibility it is somewhat reminiscent of Coil's mid-1980s classic "Horse Rotorvator" sharing that album's wild variety of sounds and styles as well as its overriding sombre mood. Originally released in 2005 and in many ways the band's ultimate swan song, it is now considered one of the go-to albums for introducing new listeners to the unparalleled magick of Coil. Compiled and released by Peter Christopherson one year after Jhonn Balance's tragic deadly fall, it includes reworkings of the live favourite "Amethyst Deceivers" and "Love Secret's Domain"'s "Teenage Lightning" as well as several songs originally intended for the ill-fated "Backwards" album like the haunting and preminiscent "Fire of the Mind" and the superb "Amber Rain". Other tracks were created using unfinished song ideas from around "Backwards", sampling tiny bits of Balance's live vocals from songs only ever performed in concert once like "Triple Sun". Using the lyrics of the theme tune for the 1970s BBC sit com series "Are you being served?" for the unbelievably haunting "Going up", this album's final track and the last song Coil ever performed live, is maybe the most poignant example of Balance's and Christopherson's method of turning base matter into pure sound gold, and like the title of the album, derived from an imaginary adult video an equally fine example of the often underappreciated humour of the boys.
Christopherson with the help of long-term sound wizard Danny Hyde and using some of the talent of Coil touring members managed to craft an album which feels and flows like a true Coil classic.

The Kontakt version is the third Coil record receiving the fully remastered and enhanced Picture 3LP treatment supervised by Danny Hyde.
All of the original material has again been carefully and sympathetically remastered by Grammy-nominated engineer Jessica Thompson who has been previously lauded for her splendid job on its sister release "The New Backwards". Coil fans old and new will be thrilled over the inclusion of more than an hour's worth of 9 rare and largely unheard bonus tracks from Danny's vaults completing the set.

credits

released November 23, 2022

Written & Produced by Coil & Danny Hyde.
Mastered by Jessica Thompson.
Front artwork by Ian Johnstone.
Artwork licensed from The Estate of Ian Johnstone.
Layout Oleg Galay.

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