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previous artist: my bloody valentine		there are 12 titles featuring my cat is an alien in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: my selfish desire

$15.12

new to stock as of
april 7th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
guitar-themed

a silent place (italy) #asp 28 cd

my cat is an alien / keji haino “cosmic debris • vol. iii” compact disc

keiji haino - whither goes it? / that which canst not but be described / as my prayer, / nowhere held in common, / lunatic, unknowable... (21:41)
my cat is an alien - everything crashes like cosmic debris (22:22)

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my cat is an alien / keiji haino: 'cosmic debris vol. iii'
cd

cd re-issue of the third installment in the "cosmic debris" split art-lp series set up by maurizio and roberto opalio, aka my cat is an alien, on their own opax records. the vol.iii sees the two space brothers from torino, italy, alongside japanese cult musician and dark shaman keiji haino. imagine a cosmic bomb exploding in your brain, and you'll have an approximate idea of this collaborative release. so, dear new-weird-america's hippy, you'd better keep your ass away from this total blast!.. no freak-folk here. instead, with these two long tracks recorded during live performances in their hometowns, respectively torino and tokyo, mciaa and haino conspired to offer you the two most totally-uncompromising music, the best way to warm up your cold winter days: what do you want more?

haino's track, entitled "whither goes it?/ that which canst not but be described/ as my prayer,/ nowhere held in common,/ lunatic, unknowable..." (yes, it's a poem!), is one of the highlights of his so long career, and mciaa's track "everything crashes like cosmic debris" is one of the brothers' most ass-kicking for sure... still ask for more? ok, read the note and play this record at loudest volume, 'till your stereo calls for mercy. are you satisfied, now? oh yes, we think so... 'dark' + 'alien' are so cool together!

$15.12

new to stock as of
april 7th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
sound-art
minimalism-drones
guitar-themed

a silent place (italy) #asp 23 cd

my cat is an alien / steve roden “cosmic debris • vol. ii” compact disc

steve roden - e-bows and rainbows (13:08)
steve roden - my dog is a yufo (6:52)
my cat is an alien - everything waves like cosmic debris (19:38)

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my cat is an alien / steve roden : 'cosmic debris vol. ii'
cd

cd re-issue of the second installment in the "cosmic debris" split art-lp series set up by maurizio and roberto opalio, aka my cat is an alien, on their own opax records. the vol.ii sees the two space brothers from torino, italy, alongside californian visual and sound artist steve roden. what makes this collaborative release so peculiar is the natural interactive exchange occurred between the artists, and that came out from the concept behind the experience itself.

roden's contribution thus represents the unique experience of hearing him literally 'playing' guitar chords. his first track, "e-bows and rainbows", developes through the minimal and reiterated sound architecture of roden's so-called 'possible landscapes', where singular source materials such as objects and field recordings are abstracted through electronic processes to generate new audio spaces, characterizing the artist's aesthetic in sound works; the following "my dog is a yufo" is so far a pretty unheard aspect of roden's ability to shape a fascinating intimate piece only with an old electric guitar and his own fingers, and it also demonstrates how a true artist can re-create his own personal universe, no matter what kind of source utilized.

on their side, mciaa deliver another piece of 'cosmic debris', centered on multilayered echoes of voice, toy piano, space drones raising from a distant horizon, and their own physical gestures performed during the recording, which reproduce themselves through the air, re-play and give birth to echoes of real time that overcomes its own essence, becoming field recording itself, mirror and spectre of its immutability. their track entitled "everything waves like cosmic debris" also features ramona ponzini's japanese bells contribution.

$13.65

new to stock as of
august 23rd, 2007

threads:
modern-psych
free-improvisation
film-video
electro-acoustic-improvisation
concert-recordings

a silent place (italy) #asp 16 cd

text of light / my cat is an alien “cosmic debris, vol. i” compact disc

text of light - "033103 paris"
my cat is an alien - "everything falls like cosmic debris"

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text of light / my cat is an alien: 'cosmic debris, vol.i'
cd digisleeve

cd re-issue of the first instalment in the new "cosmic debris" split art-lp series set up by maurizio and roberto opalio, aka my cat is an alien. this volume i sees the two space brothers from torino, italy, alongside lee ranaldo (sonic youth) and his all-star ensemble text of light* (here featuring alan licht, dj olive, ulrich krieger and tim barnes).

their track "033103 paris" has been recorded live at centre georges pompidou in 2003 and mixed in dual mono by ranaldo & licht at nyc echo canyon studio. mciaa's piece entitled "everything falls like cosmic debris" is a conceptual ouverture to the whole series, performed in april 2006 at their secret recording space called alien zone, located up the italian western alps.

the five-volumes series "cosmic debris" features my cat is an alien alongside text of light, steve roden, keiji haino, mats gustafsson, loren connors & his haunted house band. each cd cover artwork reproduces the full image and details of the acrylic paintings created by roberto opalio for each copy of the original vinyl edition on mciaa's own opax records. cd comes in a digi-sleeve textured cardboard cover.

$14.37

back in stock as of
april 7th, 2008

first in stock on
august 23rd, 2007

threads:
modern-psych
free-improvisation
electro-acoustic-improvisation
sound-art

a silent place (italy) #asp 09 cd

christian marclay / okkyung lee / my cat is an alien “from the earth to the spheres • vol. 6” compact disc

christian marclay & okkyung lee - rubbings (20:36)
my cat is an alien - beyond the limits of the stars (19:53)
my cat is an alien - beyond the limits of the grooves (36:05)

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asp09
christian marclay & okkyung lee / my cat is an alien: 'from the earth to the spheres vol.6'
cd digisleeve

this is the re-release of the split art-lp (opax records - special space art ltd ed of 100/ original 31x31 cm painting on wooden support by roberto opalio as cover). last release in the "from the earth to the spheres" split series set up by maurizio and roberto opalio aka my cat is an alien on their own opax records imprint, sees the italian cosmic duo splitting the media with well-known audio visual artist, performer and turntable-art innovator christian marclay together with cello improviser okkyung lee, ubiquitous figure of downtown ny avant-garde scene.

their track "rubbings" is the result of a live performance recorded at tonic nyc in december 2003. christian marclay's trademarked technique of mixing several ranges of lps on his multiple turntables, manipulating, fragmenting and altering the phonograph records' sonic nature in accordance with his "theater of found sound" esthetics meets the uncompromising and passionate playing of korean-born performer lee, whose powerful cello's stabs interact with marclay's waves of screaming sounds creating a unique, stunning scenario.

my cat is an alien's piece "beyond the limits of the stars/ beyond the limits of the grooves" was recorded in 2003 at their space room studio in torino, and has been kept safely in their archive 'till september 2005, when it's been completely remixed and edited appositely for this release. one of their heaviest conceptions to date, the piece is built on electric guitars' strings moaning onto walls of space drones and electronics like ectoplasmic presences emerging from the brillliance of the void. the initial minimal and claustrophobic guitar chords become more and more an ocean of howling moduled feedbacks combined with fragmented and distorted real-time inserts of post-romantic classical music from old 78rpm shellac records, sounding like radio frequencies transmitted via ether from the furthest reaches of the cosmos.

as the title suggests, mciaa's need of a non-finite "space music & art" aesthetics research has led them to etch a ghost track (instead of the final lock-groove you can find on the original vinyl) to un-seal the sounds from their actual support; a purpose expressed throughout the whole "from the earth to the spheres" series' conception.

$14.37

back in stock as of
april 7th, 2008

first in stock on
august 23rd, 2007

threads:
modern-psych

a silent place (italy) #asp 01 lp

my cat is an alien “different shades of blue” long playing record

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untitled

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my cat is an alien: 'different shades of blue'

lp

this release is the reissue of the original one, once released in different form, as a limited edition cd-r on tom greenwood's u-sound archive (vol. 19). improvisation recorded on february 12th, 2004 at mciaa's space room, torino, italy (no overdubs/ no outtakes).

this new vinyl edition is a different version, remastered and re-edited of "different shades of blue"; space-ambient soundscapes with minimal textures from the heart of the cosmos. dream music.

$12.96

back in stock as of
august 25th, 2009

first in stock on
december 4th, 2007

threads:
modern-psych
electro-acoustic-improvisation
playback-music
plunder-phonic

important (usa) #imprec 148 cd

black magic disco “black magic disco” compact disc

untitled (1) (20:02)
untitled (2) (18:14)
untitled (3) (17:24)
untitled (4) (18:13)

important press release...

black magic disco - black magic disco
imprec148 - cd

black magic disco is the new all-star band featuring tom greenwood (jackie-o motherfucker), maurizio & roberto opalio (my cat is an alien) and ramona ponzini (painting petals on planet ghost, praxinoscope).

the project was born out of an idea from tom greenwood, leader of the avant-folk-blues ensemble jomf, who invited maurizio and roberto opalio, aka the italian improv duo my cat is an alien (mciaa), and their close collaborator ramona ponzini (also involved with the two brothers in the projects named painting petals on planet ghost and praxinoscope, as well as in the new collaboration with z'ev) to perform with him for two months of touring throughout all europe in may/ june 2005.

as one can imagine, the result was killer. the music which came out of he live performances was totally explosive, combining ramona's japanese vocals & hypnotic chimes with greenwood's psych-blues guitar attitude & wild turntablism, over mciaa's alien cosmic flux of electric guitars, space toys & percussions, creating a still unheard mixture of sounds unifying archaic & post-modern, western & eastern, sky & earth.

this debut cd represents a unique chance to experience almost 80 minutes of that pure and magic live action, divided in four long tracks taken from the original live recordings.

black magic disco's logo comes from the pencil of roberto opalio; the gatefold jacket cd artwork, curated by mciaa contains some band photos taken during the live performances included in the record.

$12.96

back in stock as of
december 4th, 2007

first in stock on
february 2nd, 2007

threads:
modern-psych

important (usa) #imprec 116 cd

my cat is an alien “leave me in the black no-thing” compact disc

part one (30:24)
part two (25:51)

important press release...

leave me in the black no-thing is the new full-lenght album recorded april 10th, 2006, at mciaa's alien zone, located in a remote region of the western alps, piemonte, italy. the work consists of two tracks entitled part one and part two for a total length of 56:15 minutes

after having been irradiated by the cosmic light of a new millenium, you find yourself facing a black and white cover, where the only view of the universe is foreshortened, and represents a lighted shape showing branches of pinetrees under a white sky, within the darkest black - an element which represents the esthetic detaching and, at the same time, a further step in the duo's artistic process, which determines their willingness to go beyond any goal already achieved. for mciaa to make art means to risk daring the unknown, daring the listener himself to excel his own limits of perception of the work of art in music, without losing anything of their unique and unmistakable style.

if, as many of the international critics have been remarking, mciaa's works live on the boundary between light and darkness, it's also true that cosmic light of the third millennium celebrated the light of the outer spaces as well as leave me in the black no-thing represents a jump into the no-thing of the empty inner spaces.

recorded in their secret recording-space up on the western alps of piedmont, italy, during the trespassing from dusk to the beginning of the night, the work lives of the same dark magic of the wagnerian post-romantic ouvertures, suspended between the deepest silence and the most deflagrating sonic attack.

light/darkness, noise/silence, permeated by roberto opalio's suffering vocal tunes, which defines and underlines the edge of the work.

after the cacophonic and free implosion of the nucleus of the initials 30 minutes, 25 minutes of painful silence follow, sounding like the last whisper before the final end: angels' chorus and ectoplasmatic presences float on maurizio opalio's crystal-clear guitar strings. it's the cosmic blues of the iii millennium which penetrates into the soul, leaving indelible signs.

$12.96

back in stock as of
december 4th, 2007

first in stock on
february 2nd, 2007

threads:
modern-psych

important (usa) #imprec 115 cd

roberto opalio “chants from isolated ghosts” compact disc

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untitled (14:38)
untitled (10:48)
untitled (6:56)

important press release...

chants from isolated ghosts is roberto opalio's full-length debut album recorded november 2004 at home in torino, italy, and originally released on his own opax records label in a very limited handmade cd-r edition of 100 copies. the work consists of four tracks, for a total lenght of 38:02 minutes. roberto opalio is half of the italian space duo my cat is an alien.

roberto opalio is a visual and sound artist from torino, italy. his work includes painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, poetry, glass art, film/video, sound installation, and performance. since 1998 roberto opalio acts as musician (together with his brother maurizio) in the avant-garde improv duo my cat is an alien. his special works of art represent the trademarked style of all the limited art-edition releases issued on their own opax records imprint.this aesthetic is described by opalio as "space art". the extra-terrestrial nature of his work claims its ontological status in the act of creating a non-finished, otherwordly dimension - a proper alien dimension.

in the last few years roberto opalio has performed his videos and specific audio visual installations in various arts & music spaces and festival in italy and europe, including the sage gateshead newcastle and cca center of contemporary arts glasgow in uk, victoria hall geneve and fri-son freiburg in switzerland, galeria ze' dos bois lisbon in portugal, torino big biannual of young artists 2000, interzona verona, init and spazio s.ambrogio roma, zo' catania in italy; group exhibition at promotrice delle belle arti torino, as well as many other audio visual performances including teatro juvarra, procope, liber, machè, fuoriluogo and villa capriglio among others in his hometown torino.

roberto opalio's poetry works and drawings have been published in journals worldwide, including thurston moore's ecstatic peace poetry journal, thee flat bike and dream magazine in usa, cocktail molotov journal in brazil, the sound projector in uk, sloow tapes' my favourite magazine in belgium among others.

$12.96

back in stock as of
december 4th, 2007

first in stock on
february 2nd, 2007

threads:
modern-psych

important (usa) #imprec 077 cd

my cat is an alien “cosmic light of the third millennium” compact disc

section i (17:46)
section ii (25:20)
section iii (06:13)

important press release...

like some kind of droned out sun ra, my cat is an alien landed and stayed only long enough to drop off the masters and the artwork at important records before vanishing into the cosmos, or torino, once again.

this new full-length album was recorded april 2005 at mciaa's alien zone, located in a remote region of the western alps, piemonte, italy. the work consists of three tracks entitled "section i-ii-iii" for a total lenght of 49:20 minutes

$8.41

back in stock as of
march 12th, 2008

first in stock on
january 11th, 2006

threads:
modern-psych

rococo (usa) #rcc 0005 lp

my cat is an alien “there’s a flame ___ sometimes” long playing record

astral intro
there’s a flame ___ sometimes pt. 1
there’s a flame ___ sometimes pt. 2

extremely great price on this late 2005 release from the opalio brothers, released on the chicago-based rococo records label in 2005 ...

i have to admit that i’d all but ignored the flurry of top-dollar artifacts from this duo, mostly in splits-ville arrangments with the avant-rock elite... but sharing the stage with them in lisbon back in 2005 opened my eyes/ears to their sonic possibilites... they work a decidedly urban variant on the whole father yod/hang-glider death mythos in a pleasing way & should not be ignored by those who, like me, often ignored groups with massive discographies.

rococo press release...

my cat is an alien are maurizio & roberto opalio

maurizio opalio: electric alien guitar, cosmic effects, percussions
roberto opalio: poem/voice, electric astral guitar, space toys, xylotoy, percussions

recorded at mciaa’s space room, torino, italy
layout by mciaa & ramona ponzini
special thanks to joe sedivy

$23.52

back in stock as of
march 15th, 2010

first in stock on
may 31st, 2007

threads:
modern-psych
free-improvisation

uzu audio (canada) #uzu 001 lp
u-sound archive (usa) #usa 35 lp

jackie-o motherfucker “freaker pipe (aka assignment: jackie-o motherfucker)” long playing record

buffalo, new york 2006 (25:00)
san francisco, california 2006 (11:09)
faenza, italy 2005 (11:51)

june 2007 vinyl-only release; an lp (housed in a labor-intensive silk-screened single-pocket gatefold... with a psychedelic silk-screened inner sleeve no less...) co-released by kris burwash’s fledgeling uzu audio and tom greenwood’s long-running u-sound archive...

nice long lp containing excerpts from three different concerts between 2005-6; guests include jessica rylan, my cat is an alien, the moglass, and corey fogel.

uzu audio press release...

jackie-o motherfucker - assignment: jackie-o motherfucker (aka freaker pipe) - lp
(uzu001/usound35)

what started out as an effort to issue some live recordings from the fig. 5/liberation era slowly turned into what is the most recent live recordings made available. the free jazz tinged freak-outs you were going to hear have been shelved so we could bring you these three swirling moments in time. almost an entirely different line up on this jackie-o than previous releases, tom greenwood brings along nick bindeman, danny sasaki, and eva salens, joined by fellow sonic adventurers, jessica rylan (aka can't) & corey fogel (gowns) on one track, while on the last track they are joined in italy by the moglass and my cat is an alien.

the entire first side features a séance sure to bring out all the ghosts in your home as the percussion builds and the guitars, synths, and saxophone create a shimmering, sparse back drop for the spirits to frolic to. while the second hints at the jomf of yester year with a moaning trombone, a noodling blues tinged guitar and the cries of a lone saxophone on the first track. and to close it all off a dense dreamy endless mess of drones, moans, bells and such recorded in italy.

released in conjunction with tom greenwood's u-sound archive, this lp is one time pressing of 1000 copies into heavy 180 gram vinyl and enclosed in a custom gatefold jacket with four color printing, hand screened right here in the great white north.

$10.51

back in stock as of
august 14th, 2007

first in stock on
november 3rd, 2006

threads:
minimalism-drones
modern-psych

rebis (usa) #rebis 005 cd

“time and relative dimensions in space” compact disc

the pole i'm furthest from by number none
fleeing our pavilions for celestial clouds by the skaters
a sense of levitation by jim haynes
alien substratum 1.0/1.2 by my cat is an alien
lonely woman by taurpis tula

earlier compilation on this chicago label dating all the way back to the summer of 2005... the jim haynes and the skaters pieces are especially nice... come to think of it, this is probably the first appearance of the skaters on just about anything aside from their own micro-edition cdr/tape releases...

rebis press release...

expand your experience of space-time with the aid of five continuum-dilating long-form droneworks, contributed by my cat is an alien, taurpis tula, jim haynes, the skaters, and number none. released june 2005.

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