My Cat Is An Alien

My Cat Is An Alien

Hypnotherapy

Lost Treasures Of The Underworld

***My Cat Is An Alien’s new full-length album “HYPNOTHERAPY” reimagines an entirely new spectrum of light (and dark) manifested in the form of an analog cassette on NYC based Lost Treasures of the Underworld records. As suggested by the title, this masterly crafted work of 100% “hypno-alien-therapy-music”, will induce you to relax your cracked soul floating in space in a sublime, trance-like state of consciousness, completely out of time and ordinary reality. – As they wander thru the vast distance of the multi-verse, MCIAA makes a rare visit to new far off world and offers us this glimpse. Details of the exact location and the year/month/day of this recording have been omitted. The transparent blue cassette comes out in an insane limited edition of 100 copies only, in full-color 6-panel J-card with artwork by Roberto Opalio and design by MCIAA.

My Cat Is An Alien

Living On The Invisible Line

Divorce

***Since 1997 Italian brother duo MY CAT IS AN ALIEN has been documenting an ever deepening musical dreamscape, their massive body of work representing some of the most emotive and soulful improvised experimentalism in underground music. Recorded in a remote region of the Western Alps, this latest LP navigates especially tranquil territory as it builds blissed-out pastoral mirages, dappled just slightly with glimmers of an outer darkness. Like much of the duo's best work, Living On the Invisible Line aims for transcendence, leaving behind only spinning heads and zoned souls. Art by MCIAA. Edition of 500.

My Cat Is An Alien

Alienology: Selected Works 1998-2008

Elliptical Noise

Rare and out-of-print material from space brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio available for the first time in digital format, including the previously unreleased “Where The Lines Go To Sleep” from 2004. Starting with Landscapes Of An Electric City, MCIAA pondered Polaroids they had taken of their hometown Torino and decided a two-guitar improv would best represent the bare essence / sublimation of the metropolitan soul the way it felt inside them. Throughout the decade that followed, the brothers entrusted their “pictures of infinity” to a variety of labels that released their material in limited vinyl-only editions. Among other fundamental works, Alienology contains their self-described Great Void Trilogy, originally released on three separate LPs by Eclipse Records in the middle of the last decade. The latest work presented in the set, Alien Blood (Opax 2008) is the duo’s original soundtrack to the homonymic film by Roberto Opalio, shown at European museums as part of the Sonic Youth etc: Sensational Fix exhibition. Includes extensive liner notes and special art cards. Landscapes Of An Electric City (Ecstatic Peace 1999); The Rest Is Silence (Eclipse 2003); When The Windmill’s Whirl Dies (Eclipse 2004); There’s A Flame___Sometimes (Rococo 2005); Into The White Vortex (Opax 2007); Where The Lines Go To Sleep (previously unreleased); Greetings From The Great Void (Eclipse 2006); The Secret Of The Dancing Snow (Ikuisuus 2006); For The Tears Of The Land, Prayers From The Outer Space (Important 2008); Alien Blood (Opax 2008).

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What Space Is Made For

Elliptical Noise

The monumental set 'What Space Is Made For' has been recorded in their secret base on the Western Alps, and unlike MCIAA's previous works, it's mostly made of short pieces and songs. In addition to their (un)usual instrumentation (electric and acoustic guitars, space toys, percussion), MCIAA have self-made, modified, and assembled / disassembled primitive electronic equipment. So the result may sound their most 'experimental' as well as their most 'accessible' work to date.  "This triple box set is their latest magnum opus" - The Wire

My Cat Is An Alien

For The Tears Of The Land Prayers From The Outer Space

Elliptical Noise

***The first of an ambitious two-part series by the cosmic brothers MAURIZIO and ROBERTO OPALIO, kicking off with an acoustic blues performed by Roberto, dedicated to the pioneers of the American primitive music and in particular to the spirit of Charley Patton. "It's magical, mysterious and dreamy," says Indieworkshop, "19 million light years worth of dreams."  CDR professionally duplicated in Germany. Cardboard jacket with past-on artwork.

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Black Shadows From Jupiter Vol. 1 & 2

Elliptical Noise

***Volume 1 was issued in 2005 by the OPALIO brothers' Opax Records imprint in "Monalien Fidelity," a reference / tribute to ESP's monaural sound recordings. Available in stereo for the first time, Volume 1's two long tracks are the very first music recorded by MY CAT IS AN ALIEN after they moved to the new recording space located in the Western Alps, and contain ROBERTO OPALIO’s first experiments in wordless vocals. Five years later, in October 2009, they recorded Volume 2, almost one hour of new material representing a unique journey in the darkest secrets of the S-System.  Professionally duplicated in Germany. Gatefold cardboard jacket with tape binding and paste-on artwork, with insert.

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Photoelectric Season

Elliptical Noise

***During six months of physical and psychic isolation while on mystic retreat in a remote region of the Western Alps, the OPALIO Brothers listened to Giacinto Scelsi, Erik Satie and Maki Asakawa, and read Strindberg and Lautréamont. Created with electric and acoustic guitars, vocals, mini-keyboard, alientronix, and ancient zither, Photoelectric Season is a milestone in MY CAT IS AN ALIEN’s innovative and mysterious discography: their new "cosmic tones for mental therapy."  Professionally duplicated in Germany. Gatefold cardboard jacket with tape binding and paste-on artwork, with insert.

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Il Segno

Starlight Furniture Company

My Cat Is An Alien entered The Space Room in October 2000 and recorded a dark and concrete improvisation; previously released on LP, stretched over two sides of vinyl, it is restored here to its original state as a 30-minute monolith of caustic ruination. Beginning with a gloomy text entitled "The Sign" written by guitarist / lyricist Roberto Opalio, the track comes out of the smog with brother Maurizio's desolate, acoustic guitar scratches, Roberto's electric space guitar scribbles and spat-out words of urban alienation, and Viggiu Vortex on percussion. Piano toy and toy keyboard were added later to enhance the surreal lyrics inspired by ghosts, a sense of psychic, cultural and social isolation in their hometown Torino, Italy, and the infinite lightness and beauty between the cement and the sky. Il Segno is about the mark of chance, avenues full of dust and fallen leaves, the Torino skyline's abandoned factories and chimneys with the mountains all around, and the dance of swallows at twilight, just before the darkness envelops everything.  This CD reissue also has 23 minutes of extra screech—a pair of previously unreleased tracks recorded during the same sessions.  “[F]airly staggering … dominated by the reading of ‘The Sign’—a bleak poem of alienation, nothingness, futility and despair … snarled by Roberto in broken, halting phrases, sounding for all the world like Alan Vega on skag. As he wanders through a desolate cityscape, the poet finds manifestations of his misery in everything he sees—street signs, broken windows, malfunctioning lights. It’s a downer—a...