Buy it here.
I've also added a few links to the COIL Interview Collection, as well as a new COIL YouTube Collection.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
SoiSong Album Released!
Buy it here.
I've also added a few links to the COIL Interview Collection, as well as a new COIL YouTube Collection.
Nude Pics of xAj3z
Respects paid to BlueKephra for the info,
From Ivan's blog,
"
Current mood:
jubilant
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
Here is something I feel very happy and proud about: package design for the new SOISONG album. I admit my original intention was to make it follow the concept introduced with our first release - "disposable design" [read "making outrageously expensive package which has to be destroyed in order to hear the record"]. Luckily, this time my band-mate Sleazy persuaded me to make something that can be re-used. Now, I personally don't mind my amateur design ambitions to be ripped apart by the hands of music lovers - after all I'm not a designer in any measure. But ever since seeing the way the first record turned out, I am filled with profound respect to the one-man company Here Ltd. that puts an incredible amount of care and passion into making my utopian school-boyish paperworks into professionally looking CD package. I guess I simply could no longer let this work of love to be destroyed, so..
Here is the result: PIANO STEALTH [TM] package, which I am happy to unveil now as our album has been announced.
The first image is the outside "shell", which was originally sketched to be "disposable"..
[Carefully] opening the shell, one finds a glossy folder which contains the actual CD. The front page of the folder portrays me and Sleazy slightly morphed into one of the photographs taken with help from Emi+ Takeuchi in Tokyo. [I must say the models look so much better in their original shapes!]
The back side of the package spells a cryptic message written in a typeface I accidentally came up with specifically for the purpose. I am very happy Peter Christopherson voluntarily took the difficult job of making a proper font out of it.. and I truly hope someone will one day be able to read what it says!
Within the folder hides a piano-laquered octagonal CD made with help from our friend in Taipei, Han Li Chiou.
Finally, the inside of the "shell" this time contains useful information one often expects to find in a record - printed credits and a drawing made for us by our webmaster Yuu Omiya - watch out for SOISONG T-shirts with this design!
In other words, the way this album looks today is a result of a very dedicated collective effort and I feel very grateful to everyone who put their love and energy into it. Myself, I have not seen the actual package yet, but I was already told it feels even better than what it looks like in the pictures. I'm not dribbling, but I'm certainly full of anticipation."
From Ivan's blog,
"
Current mood:
jubilantCategory: Dreams and the Supernatural
Here is something I feel very happy and proud about: package design for the new SOISONG album. I admit my original intention was to make it follow the concept introduced with our first release - "disposable design" [read "making outrageously expensive package which has to be destroyed in order to hear the record"]. Luckily, this time my band-mate Sleazy persuaded me to make something that can be re-used. Now, I personally don't mind my amateur design ambitions to be ripped apart by the hands of music lovers - after all I'm not a designer in any measure. But ever since seeing the way the first record turned out, I am filled with profound respect to the one-man company Here Ltd. that puts an incredible amount of care and passion into making my utopian school-boyish paperworks into professionally looking CD package. I guess I simply could no longer let this work of love to be destroyed, so..
Here is the result: PIANO STEALTH [TM] package, which I am happy to unveil now as our album has been announced.
The first image is the outside "shell", which was originally sketched to be "disposable"..
[Carefully] opening the shell, one finds a glossy folder which contains the actual CD. The front page of the folder portrays me and Sleazy slightly morphed into one of the photographs taken with help from Emi+ Takeuchi in Tokyo. [I must say the models look so much better in their original shapes!]
The back side of the package spells a cryptic message written in a typeface I accidentally came up with specifically for the purpose. I am very happy Peter Christopherson voluntarily took the difficult job of making a proper font out of it.. and I truly hope someone will one day be able to read what it says!
Within the folder hides a piano-laquered octagonal CD made with help from our friend in Taipei, Han Li Chiou.
Finally, the inside of the "shell" this time contains useful information one often expects to find in a record - printed credits and a drawing made for us by our webmaster Yuu Omiya - watch out for SOISONG T-shirts with this design!
In other words, the way this album looks today is a result of a very dedicated collective effort and I feel very grateful to everyone who put their love and energy into it. Myself, I have not seen the actual package yet, but I was already told it feels even better than what it looks like in the pictures. I'm not dribbling, but I'm certainly full of anticipation."
COIL on Flickr
Those not familiar should turn their attention to The Solar Lodge, an excellent COIL related Flickr group. While you're there, check out Chris Carter and Sleazy's pages as well.
Here are some gems:
Here are some gems:
Bread Crumbs
SoiSong has been teasing us with a series of obscure photographs, released daily on their MySpace. I assume this will lead up to the much-awaited release of xAj3z.
Codename: Piano Stealth
Updates!
From Sleazy's Blog,
"We have finally received specimens of the Object some refer to as "xAj3z", though here at the Lab, the boys have affectionately nicknamed it "piano-stealth" for reasons that will become clear when you get your own sample.
Having received the all-clear from Health and Safety officials we will be sending them out to Officially Sanctioned Distribution Points, in the next few days. If you have suitable security clearance you will be able to obtain your own sample, directly from the SoiSong site, as well as from local sources.
No one is quite sure what to make of them, since they are quite unlike anything anyone could have expected, and seem to suggest a totally New Mutation of the Genus - Possibly a New Species or Genre altogether, originating who-knows-where, and with features and abilities we can only guess at.
Naturally they should be handled with care.
As with the previous smaller sample of this nature, we do not advise you to insert it willy-nilly into just any old slot or orifice, as it could be extremely damaging. Use only tray based equipment.
Despite the reassurances of the scientists that "nothing can go wrong" we are wary of distributing the Object's source code by digital means, and strongly recommend that, whenever not in use, the substance be contained within its completely unique casing, which we surmise serves some kind of protective function, though whether for us, or the object itself, we don't know. Needless to say you should take whatever steps you can to prevent it's uncontrolled propagation.
Frankly, we just don't know how this thing could spread.
see also: www.soisong.com and www.myspace.com/soisong
Your affectionate Unkle Sleaz ,-)"
From SoiSong's MySpace,
"We are proud to announce that our first album is ready to be released. In a few days the CDs packaged according to PIANO STEALTH [TM] technology will be available from our online store. In the mean time you are welcome to enjoy a brief preview of the material here on myspace. Please make sure to be visiting www.soisong.com for the soon forthcoming updates of the relevant part of the site - as always, use the album title [xAj3z] as password."
From Sleazy's Blog,
"We have finally received specimens of the Object some refer to as "xAj3z", though here at the Lab, the boys have affectionately nicknamed it "piano-stealth" for reasons that will become clear when you get your own sample.
Having received the all-clear from Health and Safety officials we will be sending them out to Officially Sanctioned Distribution Points, in the next few days. If you have suitable security clearance you will be able to obtain your own sample, directly from the SoiSong site, as well as from local sources.
No one is quite sure what to make of them, since they are quite unlike anything anyone could have expected, and seem to suggest a totally New Mutation of the Genus - Possibly a New Species or Genre altogether, originating who-knows-where, and with features and abilities we can only guess at.
Naturally they should be handled with care.
As with the previous smaller sample of this nature, we do not advise you to insert it willy-nilly into just any old slot or orifice, as it could be extremely damaging. Use only tray based equipment.
Despite the reassurances of the scientists that "nothing can go wrong" we are wary of distributing the Object's source code by digital means, and strongly recommend that, whenever not in use, the substance be contained within its completely unique casing, which we surmise serves some kind of protective function, though whether for us, or the object itself, we don't know. Needless to say you should take whatever steps you can to prevent it's uncontrolled propagation.
Frankly, we just don't know how this thing could spread.
see also: www.soisong.com and www.myspace.com/soisong
Your affectionate Unkle Sleaz ,-)"
From SoiSong's MySpace,
"We are proud to announce that our first album is ready to be released. In a few days the CDs packaged according to PIANO STEALTH [TM] technology will be available from our online store. In the mean time you are welcome to enjoy a brief preview of the material here on myspace. Please make sure to be visiting www.soisong.com for the soon forthcoming updates of the relevant part of the site - as always, use the album title [xAj3z] as password."
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