My Cat Is An Alien/Text Of Light
 

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Cosmic Debris Vol.I
September 5, 2006

Coming soon on Opax records:
MY CAT IS AN ALIEN/TEXT OF LIGHT
'Cosmic Debris' Vol.I - split ART-LP (ltd. ed. of 100).
Each record comes alongside an original acrylic painting by Roberto Opalio (one half of My Cat Is An Alien) on 30x30cm proper canvas, with a unique Polaroid installed on each piece, representing 100 different perspectives of a same subject.
Vol.I features a special Text Of Light's track entitled "033103 Paris", recorded live at Centre Georges Pompidou in DUAL MONO; the LP will be out in early October 2006, while a regular CD re-issue will follow some months later -- contacts & pre-orders here: spaceis@mycatisanalien.com

Here the official press release as introduction to the whole series:
"The Italian space brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka My Cat Is An Alien, have set up a new series of split art-LPs on their own Opax Records. The series of collaborations, entitled "Cosmic Debris", will see the space duo alongside artists such as Lee Ranaldo's Text Of Light, Steve Roden, Keiji Haino, Mats Gustafsson, Loren Connors & his Haunted House band. Each volume will be released in a numbered and signed edition of only 100 copies, and will come out with a proper painting on 12"x12" canvas by Roberto Opalio as sleeves, with the addition of an original Polaroid installed on each piece of art, representing 100 different perspectives of a same subject; each volume's photographic subject will be strictly related to the cosmic imaginary of My Cat Is An Alien."

Vol.I - My Cat Is An Alien / Text Of Light
Vol.II - My Cat Is An Alien / Steve Roden
Vol.III - My Cat Is An Alien / Keiji Haino
Vol.IV - My Cat Is An Alien / Mats Gustafsson
Vol.V - My Cat Is An Alien / Loren Connors & his Haunted House band







Moshe

I know someone in Greece who is very happy now :)

ha ha,i hate mciaa,but i suppose many people here loves them...thanks for the heads up,moshe,you keep us up to date with an impressive regularity (if this word exists) :)

why would anyone hate my cat is an alien?

i want the tol and haino ones!

bah,i saw them live a couple times and they bored me,records have the same effect,guess it's all a matter of persona tastes....by the way,"hate" is an exxxxxaggeration (i don't know how to spell),i just don't like them.

MCIAA LPs cost a fortune don't they? I think I'll wait for the Cd.

But thanks Moshe, oh great bringer of news that is good.

I'll wait for the CD too. Have to get the split with Thurston too.

hm,i listen to loads of italian bands,i don't think i'm nore "strict" for that reason...i mean,i LOVE lee ranaldo,but his "from here to infinity" bores me a lot,even if you could say it's "interesting"...i appreciate the effort,but not the result,in a way.

i'd like to hear that.

hey sonics, the split cd-reissue with MCIAA guys is coming out on A SILENT PLACE this month! check the website records page: http://www.sonicurbs.com/textoflight/pag/records.htm

I'm not sure the artwork will be the same as the LP. The Opalio brothers said they will send be a jpg file of the artwork as soon as the have it so I figured it is different.
Anyway, it is only March and there are 3 TOL releases out there. Lee is spoiling us this year.:)

will he put a chocolate in the cd as well. that really would be spoiling us.

mass food poisoning i fear.

Yes the LP version (that is sold out now) Opalio brothers attached the acrylic picture. I think the CD contains just that picture as a digital press for CD format. anyway I have not seen it yet.

I really like the design of your ToL site. It looks so Italian. :)

looks italian? really? that's make me happy.
sometime I try to figure out what could be considered 'something italian', but it's very hard for me that I'm italian.

thanks!

http://www.saucerlike.com/index.php

A Silent Place presents:

TEXT OF LIGHT / MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
"Cosmic Debris, Vol.I" CD




label: A SILENT PLACE - cat.nr.: ASP12 - barcode: 8032644745124


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.*

*= TEXT OF LIGHT are: Lee Ranaldo (SONIC YOUTH), Alan Licht, DJ Olive (GREGOR ASCH), Ulrich Krieger (ART ZOYD), Tim Barnes (THE TOWER RECORDINGS).


PRESS QUOTES:
"Roberto and his brother Maurizio are the highly advanced lifeforms crewing the mysterious starship that goes by the name of My Cat Is An Alien (MCIAA), plotting a quixotic course through three millennia of cosmic music, from the celestial drones of the Pythagorean monochord onwards, to land up in the gravity-free realm of the No-mind." (Tony Herrington - The Wire / editor-in-chief & publisher)


"Text of Light was formed in 2001 with the idea to perform improvised music during screenings of films by Stan Brakhage and other American avant-garde filmmakers from the 1950s and '60s. These should not be considered soundtracks for Brakhage's works. Rather, the group uses the films as an element to stimulate improvisation, like an additional player, juxtaposing film and music in a real-time performance mixed-media collage. The result is a new chapter in free improv and mixed media." (Bananafish)

TOM CARTER / VANESSA ARN - What is here for? LP

JULIE'S HAIRCUT & SONIC BOOM - N-Waves / U-Waves 10"

JULIE'S HAIRCUT & SONIC BOOM - N-Waves / U-Waves (w/ 2 extra tracks!) CD

FABIO ORSI - Leaves under Trees (portrayed window) one sided LP ltd.100 c.

FABIO ORSI - Find electronica CD

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / STEVE RODEN "Cosmic Debris" Vol.II CD

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / KEIJI HAINO "Cosmic Debris" Vol.III CD
MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / MATS GUSTAFSSON "Cosmic Debris" Vol.IV CD
MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / LOREN CONNORS & His Haunted House Band "Cosmic Debris" Vol.V CD

A SILENT PLACE Back Catalogue (still fresh!!!):
KAWABATA MAKOTO (Acid Mothers Temple) - Hosanna Mantra LP last copies

JENNIFER GENTLE - A New Astronomy CD

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN & FABIO ORSI - For Alan Lomax CD ltd.500 c. last copies

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / CHRISTIAN MARCLAY / OKKYUNG LEE - From the Earth to the spheres VOL. 6 CD

ROBERTO OPALIO (My Cat Is An Alien) - The last night of the Angel of Glass Vol.1&2 2xCD Set
FABIO ORSI & GIANLUCA BECUZZI - Muddy speaking ghosts through my machines CD

orders via this email:info@smallvoices.it

Thanks Moshe...
Does anyone know whether the Text of Light track from Paris 0333103 is the same as the one on that is on "Reel 1", the euro tour CDR from 2005?
I assume it's from the same recording (dual mono), but is it the same edit?

Hi Pokkeherrie, I haven't the split cd with MCIAA guys but I think it's the same recording/editing appeared on 'reel 1'

thanks, fluxus... i'll wait with ordering it then until i know for sure.

that would be good to know..

Okay, public service time here... I'm just off to listen to both.

The CDR track and the MCIAA split track are the same length and have the same credits, but, based on listening to just the first minute or so of each, the music is different on the CDR release to what is on the MCIAA split.

but it's not out yet, isn't it?

*edit*
quite dear on cd universe. what about small voices?
paypal?

How come you have a copy? Did you buy the split LP?

I bought the vinyl, yes.

Does you girlfriend know what you do with your money? :)

She thinks I spend it on drink and loose women.

LOL :)

http://www.mycatisanalien.com/news.htm

UK online TAXI MAGAZINE features a nice interview with MCIAA, run by Editor Kez on December 10th, 2006, made right after MCIAA's astrokiller performance at ATP Nightmare Before Christmas in UK - Really nice shots of alien action too!
www.taximag.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=116&Item i


****** NEW RELEASES OUT ******
- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / STEVE RODEN - "Cosmic Debris, Vol.II" split ART-LP (Opax Records) (private edition of 100; each record comes with an original acrylic painting by Roberto Opalio on 30x30cm proper canvas & a unique Polaroid instant film installed on each piece)
- MAURIZIO OPALIO - "Way up to Enfer" lathe-cut LP + book (Opax Records) (ltd.ed 50 lathe-cut vinyl; includes previously unreleased 8 minutes extra track not included in the original cd-r edition, charcoal drawn cover & poem book by Maurizio Opalio; individually numbered and signed)
- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / TEXT OF LIGHT - "Cosmic Debris, Vol.I" split CD (A Silent Place / Italy) (CD re-issue of the original split art-LP; heavy textured cardboard deluxe gatefold sleeve)
- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / FAMILY UNDERGROUND split LP (Reverse, DK) (ltd.356, see-through vinyl, silkscreened transparent plastic sleeves)
- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - "Different Shades of Tape" Box set (A Silent Place) (private ed. of 10; 7" colored vinyl, exclusive handpainted cassette, silkscreened t-shirt and card insert)
see releases for details--

****** FORTHCOMING RELEASES ******
**MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / KEIJI HAINO - "Cosmic Debris, Vol.III" split ART-LP (Opax Records)
**ROBERTO OPALIO - "Whispers of the last Light, Vol.I & II" lathe cut ART-LP + DVD-R (Opax Records)
**PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST / MYKEL BOYD - 7" split (Somnimage / USA)
**PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST - "s/t" CD (Time-Lag Records) (CD re-issue of the debut LP)
**BLACK MAGIC DISCO - "s/t" CD (Important Records / USA)

****** NEWS & PROJECTS IN THE WORK ******
- In June 2007, Important Records (USA) will release the debut CD of BLACK MAGIC DISCO, a new all-star band featuring Tom Greenwood (Jackie-O Motherfucker), Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Praxinoscope) and Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (MCIAA). The project was born out of the idea of Tom Greenwood, former leader of the avant-folk-blues ensemble JOMF, who invited Maurizio and Roberto Opalio and their close collaborator Ramona Ponzini to join him as line-up performers for two months of touring throughout all Europe in May/ June 2005. The album will contain the music which came out from those explosive live performances --
- Maurizio & Roberto Opalio have just finished working on the final mix & mastering of the second full-lenght album of PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST, project featuring the two space brothers together with Ramona Ponzini; the album will consist of a series of acoustic and intimate songs imbued with the enchanting Japanese vocal tunes by Ramona --
- Still concerning RAMONA PONZINI, a new project of collaboration together with Z'EV, guru of drone-ambient and pioneer of industrial era, will be released later this year on LP/CD by Italian label A Silent Place / SmallVoices --

you can order it here:

http://www.asilentplace.it/asp16.html

a few copies are available here:
finalmuzik@libero.it
10,00 EU only + registered postage!