My Cat Is An Alien / Praxinoscope

For The Tears Of Land, Prayers From Outer Space


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Limited edition of 300 hand numbered copies packaged in heavy duty screen printed metallic ink jackets done by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Very deluxe - one of those packages that feels amazing in your ears and in your ears. Click on the image for a photo of the package.

My Cat Is An Alien''s new surprising master work is a concept-album split with their side project Praxinoscope. As always, in a world full of compromises, MCIAA represent fierce independence and complete freedom. Take Roberto''s own words in the liner notes as the best introduction to this work: "One day we realized it was no more possible to discern archaic art and post-modern art in our palette; it was clear that they were both reflected in the same hall of mirrors. In other words, alien art and archaic art are the same thing. All archaic art deals with death, sex, transcendence and Eternity.We''re all living days suspended in the Void. The difference is in consciousness: this is real artists'' duty. Beyond and other than this, only oblivion."

TRACK LISTING

A/B  My Cat Is An Alien

C/D  Praxinoscope 

My Cat Is An Alien: Robert Opalio / Maurizio Opalio

Split


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Limited edition of 300 copies packaged in heavy duty screen printed jackets done by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Each side features a 20 minute solo track from both brotherly halves of the acclaimed My Cat Is An Alien. Both brothers were quiet about the inspiration for their tracks. Dig in and find your own meaning in the comfortable alien world of the Opalio space brothers.

Roberto Opalio

Chants From Isolated Ghosts


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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.

My Cat Is An Alien

Cosmic Light Of The Third Millennium


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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

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