- finally! "Brown Shark, Red Lion" is a thought provoking mammoth of an album which is incredibly hard to classify or explain, so we're not going to try making up a genre name for it, that will happen naturally over the next few months =)
We're also not going to bore you with a long intro to this preorder, all the necessary information is listed below, along with tidbits of info regarding the story of the album and it's release. Read on!
The wait is nearly over! The CD and digital will drop officially in stores and online like lightning from the heavens on March 15th. Followed shortly after by the 2xLP vinyl version. So lets talk about the album a bit =)
The CD version is a 28 page illustrated book telling the tale of album and housing the actual CD... to comprehend the sheer awesomeness of what that means, see below...
We said some of this in the February newsletter when we announced the preorder date, but we're going to reuse some of that material to explain our elaborate choice of CD packaging: We simply figured with CD sales worldwide approaching an all time low and some record labels not even pressing them anymore, what better time to press the most ambitious and pricey one we've ever released =) But in all seriousness, the scope of this project is massive from beginning to end and we want the packaging of the project to embody the work that went into the music itself. It should blow minds, to put it delicately.
Now, in a perfect world we could have replicated the CD packaging for vinyl as a 28 page book 2xLP edition, but this world is not perfect and the expensive manufacturing costs of vinyl are simply incomparable to the "relatively" inexpensive CD manufacturing costs and it just wouldn't be possible to do. Buuuuut, that being said, we would obviously never short-change the vinyl treatment on one of our beloved releases, there's just something in our record collecting brains that won't allow us to! So here's the sweet deal with the 2xLP version - it's going to be laid out similar to the last Eksi Ekso 2xLP we put out in 2008 "I Am Your Bastard Wings" (which is available HERE). It will have the full color, super thick / heavy / sturdy 18pt stock, 5mm spine, side-loading jackets with two full color printed inner sleeves housing the vinyl itself. It'll spin at 45rpm for maximum fidelity, talkin' audiophile sound quality here babaaaay!!!
Here's where you can check out all of the preordering options, then read below for the story of the album:
CUSTOMIZE YOUR OWN "BROWN SHARK, RED LION" ULTIMATE PREORDER PACKAGE!
This preorder's "Ultimate Package Deal" is up to you guys! The package automatically includes the brown/red ("Brown" Shark, "Red" Lion) color combo. But then you get to choose from a myriad of options as you decide what the "Ultimate" preorder package actually is to you =) Check it out by clicking HERE!
But you don't have to order multiple copies or formats if you don't want to! Check out the individual sweetness below:
Brown/Red (limited to 100) Baby Blue (limited to 100)
***limit two per person*** ***limit two per person***
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Orange (limited to 300) 28 page hardcover book with CD
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Or just peep all the deals on the preorder page of the website if you'd prefer, hit it up HEEEEEEEEEEERE!
Now lets give you a little background info on the story of the album (courtesy of Music Remedy dot com, read the entire piece HERE):
"Brown Shark, Red Lion is a story that manifested itself out of a conversation Korkidis had with his late grandmother about the disappearance of two family acquaintances - one in the late 1800's, and one later in the mid 1900's. With little more than that, the idea was to create a story around a protagonist who truly was a commercial photographer and amateur astronomer that existed in Eastern Turkey around the mid-late 1800's; fully embracing the first instant photography development system known as collodion or wet plate method. With the exception of some found photographs, the real story of the disappearance was scant at best so a story was devised in which "Lev" (the protagonist) found himself stumbling upon what he thought to be the workings of parasitic angels and demons in his life; slowly sliding from the background to the foreground of his photographs; later entering his own life with a proposition that many men have succumbed to since the advent of our existence: a trade up. Each song on the record follows a linear narrative arc that simultaneously deals with photography (the collodion method and photo trading), astronomy, these earth bound parasitic gods (based loosely on some of the half baked ideas of aliens proposed by Bob Frissell and Erich von Daniken), and a family relative named "Bedia" who sought out the truth of his disappearance nearly a generation later and also later went missing."
Stream some tracks from the album on the bands Bandcamp page HERE!
There you go! That's it! Now get ta hustlin'!! All preorders that only include the CD version will ship in early March. All preorders that include the vinyl version in any way will ship in early April. Any questions just reply to this email or hit us up at info@themylenesheath.com =) Much love <3 Onward and upward, brothers and sisters!!
xoxo,
Lindsay & Joel
