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The Ape Of Naples

by Coil

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    CDs come in a 6-panel Digipak with a booklet and poster. Artwork by Ian Johnstone.

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    CDs come in a 6-panel Digipak with a booklet and poster. Artwork by Ian Johnstone.

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    Collectors Box Edition with the exclusive color of vinyl. 3LP in a numbered wooden box with a reproduction of a legendary picture by Ian Johnstone on a metal plate, designed with mounts, and can be hung on the wall!

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    Comes in a Deluxe Hardcover Triple-Gatefold. Artwork by Ian Johnstone

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    Comes in a Deluxe Hardcover Triple-Gatefold. Artwork by Ian Johnstone.

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    Comes in a Deluxe Hardcover Triple-Gatefold. Artwork by Ian Johnstone.

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Comes in a Deluxe Hardcover Triple-Gatefold. Artwork by Ian Johnstone.
    Limited 100 copies Green/Clear Vinyl + slipmat.

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    Comes in a Deluxe Hardcover Triple-Gatefold. Artwork by Ian Johnstone.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Ape Of Naples via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Comes in a Deluxe Hardcover Triple-Gatefold. Artwork by Ian Johnstone. Limited 100 hand copies.

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


    ATTENTION:
    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.

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  • "Does death come alone?" - TS
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    Limited edition T-shirt based on Ian Johnstone's painting.

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  • "It just is..." - T-shirt
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  • 3xLP Collectors Box (wood+metal) Ape Edition
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Collectors Box Edition with the exclusive color of vinyl. 3LP in a numbered wooden box with a reproduction of a legendary picture by Ian Johnstone on a metal plate, designed with mounts, and can be hung on the wall!

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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 Infinite Fog version is the third Coil record receiving the fully remastered and enhanced 3LP/2CD 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. The astounding design of the original box-set release is restored for the gatefold 3LP sleeve using the fully-licensed artwork by Ian Johnstone (making it easy to differentiate this new vinyl version from previous un-sanctioned LP releases using poor reproductions of the original CD art for the front cover), the CD will be available in two versions with the original and well-loved original CD cover art and for the first time using the former vinyl-only cover art.
If you do not yet own a physical copy of the "Ape of Naples", or if you always wanted an enhanced version of this masterpiece, there has never been a better time to make that wish come true.

credits

released October 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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