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My Cat Is An Alien
Folclore Alieno
Opax 018
CD-R
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Special handmade ltd. ed. of 150; look-like-vinyl black-bottom cd-r in nice-textured heavy-cardboard tri-fold sleeve, handnumbered and painted by Roberto Opalio)"This is the first MCIAA's completely acoustic release. Its six tracks aren't but a unique entire session which has been recorded on January the 1st, 2006, at the Opalio brothers' new mysterious "Alien Zone" headquarters, located in a remote region of the Western Alps, Piemonte, Italy. The whole recording came as a sort of propitiatory ritual to welcome the new alien year, intended as a new cycle in the duo's imagery of the cosmic universe, here approached in enchanted trance-like minimal pieces; Roberto's vocals emerge like primitive human hymns from the two brothers' acoustic guitars textures. This is entranced, mystic alien music."
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Roberto Opalio
Voice With No Guitar/Guitar With No Voice
Opax TP-01
Cassette
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special handmade ltd. ed. of 69, in Japanese-paper envelope, hand-sewn with string, handnumbered and drawn by Roberto Opalio) The first analog cassette release on Opax Tapes, new division of My Cat Is An Alien's Opax Records, features a new work by brother Roberto Opalio. On side A, a 10-minutes-long solo-voice piece in Roberto's typical wordless-vocals style; on side B a 10-minutes-long solo-guitar piece of pure space drones. Recorded at home September 9th, 2005, in Torino, Italy.
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Roberto Opalio
Whispers Of The Last Light
Opax OPX-020V
DVD-R
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ltd. ed. of 100, in nice-textured cardboard tri-fold sleeve, with silver ink drawing by Roberto Opalio; handnumbered) "New short film by visual artist / musician Roberto Opalio, one half of My Cat Is An Alien. Filmed on March 21st, 2006, the video represents a visionary, introspective view of the empty spaces over the city, Torino. Through a unique, hand-manipulated shot made in real-time, Roberto Opalio's poetic fragmentation and distortion of real objects recalls early film experiments by Man Ray, as well as a certain Warholian psychedelia in the use of filtered light as a main principle of creation / perception of one's own reality. The soundtrack, recorded the same day appositely, leads to a further estrangement with the use of Opalio's looped wordless vocals and electronics merging into a heavy, ecstatic stream of sounds."
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My Cat Is An Alien/Text Of Light
Cosmic Debris Series Volume One
Opax OPX-LP08
Art Edition LP
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Painting Petals On Planet Ghost
Oounabara
Opax OPX-024A
Lathe LP + DVD
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Praxinoscope
Epocsonixarp
Opax OPX-023
CD-R
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Special private press edition of only 130, with heavy textured cardboard sleeve + sticker on cover, individually numbered)"'Epocsonixarp' is the second full-lenght album of the Praxinoscope duo formed by Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petals On Planet Ghost). This work is even more lyrical and ecstatic than the debut; here Roberto's use of a mini-keyboard and astral effects collides with Ramona's hypnotic use of several handmade wood percussions and her Japanese wind chimes and bells, creating such an infinite and intimate 'space' so that you cannot but loose yourself inside. A whirlpool of Roberto's whispered wordless vocals will live till the evening dies, and the black of the night will come to surround everything. As the duo asks, 'Play it in the dark!'."
"Praxinoscope are proof that you don't need any instruments to make amazing sounds. This is wonderful, wonderful music. [Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis, editor]"
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