EIVIBLEIVI, the sign under which this album appears, starts from a simple conviction: music can open onto experiences that feel larger than the listener — sometimes devotional, sometimes destabilizing. Its emblem, a stylized magnetic field, hints at this pull without defining its source.
Self Service moves within that tension. The album folds spiritually inflected sound together with imagery pulled from corporate branding, religious merchandising, and self-optimization culture. These materials overlap in ways that are sometimes sincere, sometimes satirical, and often undecidable. Rather than delivering a message, the music lets these worlds contaminate each other, allowing the listener to sense where belief dissolves into spectacle and where spectacle slips back toward longing.
The visual identity follows the same logic. The cover — an unlabeled commercial building photographed as a church — proposes a double meaning of "service," without resolving whether it points upward, inward, or toward the marketplace.
Self Service doesn't explain its position, but stages it. What a listener finds in that space is meant to unfold gradually, and differently for everyone.
Self Service moves within that tension. The album folds spiritually inflected sound together with imagery pulled from corporate branding, religious merchandising, and self-optimization culture. These materials overlap in ways that are sometimes sincere, sometimes satirical, and often undecidable. Rather than delivering a message, the music lets these worlds contaminate each other, allowing the listener to sense where belief dissolves into spectacle and where spectacle slips back toward longing.
The visual identity follows the same logic. The cover — an unlabeled commercial building photographed as a church — proposes a double meaning of "service," without resolving whether it points upward, inward, or toward the marketplace.
Self Service doesn't explain its position, but stages it. What a listener finds in that space is meant to unfold gradually, and differently for everyone.
Private Download: Google Drive
Album Artwork: Google Drive
Title: Self Service
Release Date: 12/12/2025
(Self-Release on Bandcamp)
1. Almost There
2. Better Each Day
3. Prayer For Money Help
4. Staff Only
5. Full Acquittal
Written, Performed, Produced, Recorded, Mixed, Mastered, and Album Artwork by: Milan Schell
Format: Digital (Streaming, Download)
Genres: Experimental Ambient
Duration: 25:57
EIVIBLEIVI (read “emblem”) is the solo project of Brooklyn-based composer-performer Milan Schell, exploring the psychedelic and symbolic dimensions of sound. Active since 2006, the project fuses acoustic instruments, electronics, and custom-built systems into recordings, performances and audiovisual works.
The discography intersects diverse genres, with a focus on eliciting the listener's mental reflex to construct meaning from sound. Live, Schell transforms the drum set into a resonant loudspeaker through digitally controlled feedback, interweaving percussion and electroacoustic synthesis.
Milan Schell has performed internationally at venues and festivals including Harvestworks and NYCEMF (New York), REM Festival (Bremen), and Konschthaus Beim Engel (Luxembourg), and has worked with artists including Charlemagne Palestine and Fried Dähn.
He has won grants and awards for New Music Forms (Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, 2018), and Electronic Music in the Church (Cultural Affairs Office of the State Capital Stuttgart, 2005).
The discography intersects diverse genres, with a focus on eliciting the listener's mental reflex to construct meaning from sound. Live, Schell transforms the drum set into a resonant loudspeaker through digitally controlled feedback, interweaving percussion and electroacoustic synthesis.
Milan Schell has performed internationally at venues and festivals including Harvestworks and NYCEMF (New York), REM Festival (Bremen), and Konschthaus Beim Engel (Luxembourg), and has worked with artists including Charlemagne Palestine and Fried Dähn.
He has won grants and awards for New Music Forms (Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, 2018), and Electronic Music in the Church (Cultural Affairs Office of the State Capital Stuttgart, 2005).
Live Performance Demo: Youtube
Field Recordings, 2021
Spange/Le Ray Au Soleyl, 2018
Volvox, 2013
Dummy Head Recordings, 2012
Ole Korec, 2006
Logo Versions: Google Drive
Instagram: @EIVIBLEIVI
mail@eivibleivi.com
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