My Cat Is An Alien triangle 8” LATHE LTD 80 sonic youth jim o'rourke keiji haino
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$ 36
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Oct 5, 2012
Sold Date
Sep 28, 2012
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$ 20
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My Cat Is An Alien- My Cat Is An Alien triangle 8” LATHE CUT EP (Psuedoarcana PA110)
Edition of 80 triangular LATHE CUT 8" (well the playing surface that it, you'll have a tough time fitting this into an LP rack) from Maurizio Opalio & Roberto Opalio's My Cat Is An Alien.This is #64 of 80 copies made.
This is from the New Zealand label Psuedoarcana, run by the very talented Antony Milton.
Record is MINT- (I consider all new lathe discs as mint- because the nature of lathe discs is that some surface noise will be present, this is normal to the process of making the discs)/Cover is VG+ (excellent except for a 1 inch tear on the back side fold over).
My Cat Is An Alien are not only one of the most significant voices in the current Italian avant garde, they are international collaborators and champions of other artists and have released collaborations with numerous artists including:
Ramona Ponzini & Lee Ranaldo (of Sonic Youth)
Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)
Jim O'Rourke (Gastr Del Sol/Sonic Youth)
Valerio Cosi
Fabio Orsi
Keiji Haino ( Fushitsusha)
Steve Roden
Mats Gustafsson
Jackie-O Motherfucker
Thuja
Christina Carter (Charlambides) & Andrew MacGregor
Okkyung Lee & Christian Marclay
Text Of Light ( Alan Licht, Christian Marclay, Lee Ranaldo, Tim Barnes, Ulrich Krieger & William Hooker )
Glands Of External Secretion (Seymour Glass and Barbara Manning)
Corsican Paintbrush
Praxinoscope
Loren Mazzacane Connors & Haunted House
Pestrepeller
Enore Zaffiri
Bjerga / Iversen
I can't imagine there were enough copies of this record to go around to all the people they've worked with musically.
Some critical acclaim for My Cat Is An Alien:
"...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)
"Italy's MY CAT IS AN ALIEN is the finest two-brother band from Italy since the end of the Great War. Their sounds move through the air the way that a tub of fine Roman butter moves through a circus ape[…]" - Thurston Moore and Byron Coley (Arthur Magazine)
"...the Opalio brothers are among the most talented artists on the planet." "...Roberto and Maurizio Opalio are the new kings of the solar system, and their reign will be nothing but superb." "...This is essential music." - Brad Rose (Foxy Digitalis, editor)
"...My Cat Is An Alien's music is always free at its root level, always exploring some nook of the cosmos... The brothers have always maintained that what they produce is a kind of psychedelia, and surely that's true. But it is a form of the music so far from the rote harmonics of the paisleys, that it's not recognizable as anything, except perhaps pure hallucination. Then, what could possibly closer to the true nature of psychedelia? The music MCIAA create sounds different, looks different, smells different, depending on where you are in the room. It's a total dislocation of inputs and outputs and everything else. Put that in your pipe and smoke it." - Byron Coley
"...This is highly original music." "...MCIAA build up some very intense drones, pulses and oscillations; you can get lost inside its minimal, limpid beauty." - Ed Pinsent (The Sound Projector, editor & publisher)
"...any notion of conventional technique is sublimated to more inquisitive, exploratory demands, sailing out on slow films of single notes towards an ever retreating horizon…before dissolving into gorgeous denouements of electronics[…]" - David Keenan (The Wire)
"...Italian DIY space rockers My Cat Is An Alien's rampant release schedule continues to attract Sun Ra worshippers to their cause. the production takes on the mantle of a release from Saturn." "...The creative concept behind the Opalio brothers' ongoing "From the earth to the Spheres" series of dual recordings featuring guest artists is somewhat reminiscent of the ESP-Disk mantra" - Edwin Pouncey (The Wire)
"...This is proper minimalism, the art of LaMonte Young; only while Young longed desperately for a trance-state, MCIAA start in one and work from there. ...it is so staggering, so mesmerizing, and makes music on its own terms so definitely, that it has a certain menacing, willfully unpretty, and monolithic grandeur, like some intractable slab of rock, or a vast, empty desert." - Jeff Siegel (Stylus Magazine)
"...The ability to improvise is a sign of intelligence, My Cat Is An Alien must have been born with an exceptionally sensitive inner ear." - Moron (Industrial)
"...My Cat Is An Alien…mining the seething coalescence of trance acoustics and ambient feedback …volcanic, both in sound quality and seeping magnitude…floating, impressionistic noise." - Tom Roberts (Dusted Magazine)
"...I can safely say that My Cat Is An Alien genuinely don't sound like anything else in music right now" - (Second Layer)
"...Audio sculptures floating on a tension cable that never looses its way or grows fainter from the first instant to the last. The Beauty of noise in a sum of almost casual gestures." - Vittore Baroni (Rumore)
"...we get to see a close-up of a sound sculpture that evolves slowly and explores the sonic depth of minimal guitar textures in a very impressive way." - Mats Gustafsson (Broken Face)
A M G says of My Cat Is An Alien's The Cosmological Eye Trilogy:
They call their home studio the Space Room; they name their pieces after galaxies and nebulas; and their cat appears to be an alien. Please act surprised when you learn that this duo from Torino, Italy, plays space music -- not your ordinary brand, though: experimental space music. Maurizio Opalio and Roberto Opalio are exploring the cosmos through epic improvised journeys involving astral percussion, electric astral guitar drones, and space toys. Their territory is somewhere past the fringes of Psychedelia, Ambient, and Free. Until late 2005, most of the Opalios' music had come out on their own Opax label -- labor-of-love releases in very limited editions and handmade sleeves. Up steps Last Visible Dog, the U.S. label known for its extensive coverage of obscure experimental underground projects. The Cosmological Eye Trilogy is a three-CD set put together to reissue two Opax releases from 2003 and 2004 (parts one and two of the trilogy), plus tons of new material. From the spaced-out tribal feel of "The Helix Nebula" to the sleepwalking trek through the outer reaches of the universe that is "Into the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy," this is music to relax to, reflect on, and even get bored to. Each disc clocks in at over 60 minutes and contains only two or three tracks. No need to say, the listener must be in the right frame of mind (no, it doesn't mean the use of illicit substances is required) to tackle these creative takes on the "space music" form. The important thing is that the Opalios manage to change their approach with each track, which keeps the music fresh from listen to listen. Fans of Last Visible Dog's usual experimental folk be warned: this music is thinner than what you may be used to.
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Buyer pays shipping:
Media Mail To USA : $4.00
Priority Mail To The USA: $8.00 Air Mail To Canada : $7.50
Europe/Asia/UK/Australia/NZ: $13.25
I will ship internationally & I will provide proof of mailing but I cannot guarantee delivery overseas (Italy has been a problem for many sellers) unless the buyer elects to use international priority mailing (ask for details...coverage is limited). It is essential that you provide a clear and accurate address for mailing of a package. Domestic packages to the USA are sent with delivery tracking.
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These prices reflect Priority shipping with coverage of $63.78 added automatically up to 1 pound.
Western Europe: $23.00
Asia : $22.00
Australia: $21.00
New Zealand: $19.50
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