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"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.
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