★Opax Records
Once You'll Touch The Sky You Will Never Return To Dust
Once you'll touch the sky you will never return to dust’ is the fifth studio album by Roberto Opalio, “the more sinister half of My Cat Is An Alien” according to Byron Coley.
The Sky With Broken Arms
*2023 stock* CD in 4-panel, full-color gatefold digisleeve. Cover artwork and foreword by Roberto Opalio. Design by My Cat Is An Alien.
‘The Sky With Broken Arms’ is the brand new studio album by My Cat Is An Alien which officially opens the duo’s 20th anniversary in 2018–a year rich of exciting projects, collaborations and releases. Brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio have been active as radical instantaneous composers since the beginning in early 1998, their work always characterized by the w…
Spiritual Noise ___ Rinascimento
Huge Tip! *15 CD-R Box Set + 100-page Artist’s Book. Edition of 199 copies* “Spiritual Noise___Rinascimento” (renaissance) took an entire year of self-isolation in My Cat is An Alien's secret HQ called Alien Zone up in the Western Alps to be conceived and created -- between 2021 and 2022, in the midst of a reality still plagued by pandemic, we spent our lives discovering new existential meanings projected into the deepest core of still-unknown space-time dimensions -- flowing through the spiral…
Re-si-sten-za!
*2023 reissue* *MCIAA 25th anniversary limited edition of 200 copies* This new 2023 special reissue of My Cat Is An Alien’s landmark album "RE-SI-STEN-ZA!" is intended to open the brotherly duo’s 25th anniversary celebrations. Originally released in 2016, the work well represents the summa of MCIAA's music activity, from their early space toys-era to the latest self-made electronics and string instruments outputs. Featuring two long compositions, the album reaches 50 minutes of pure “Spiritual …
Aurora Coelestis
Fourth solo album and debut on vinyl format by musician and visual artist Roberto Opalio of radical avant-garde duo My Cat Is An Alien. Aurora Coelestis presents two new instantaneous compositions for glockenspiel and voice, recorded in March 2014 at his Alien Studio for audiovisual arts, Torino, Italy. For the first time his musical work is mainly instrumental: Aurora Coelestis is Roberto Opalio’s homage to early minimalism. The work is intended to be listened to at soft volume level, quietly i…
Abstract Expressionism For The Ears
Debut release of the new collaborative project of outsider duo of musicians and visual artists MY CAT IS AN ALIEN and Belgian electronic composer CÉDRIC STEVENS. Over 2 hours of new music as human ears have never heard before and will never do if you miss this unique chance! In February 2014 brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio aka My Cat Is An Alien spent a residency in Brussels for a long studio session in trio with Cédric Stevens (aka Acid Kirk), who recently collaborated in Fennesz's new alb…
The Analog Statement
Limited handnumbered private edition of 100 in cardboard tri-fold cover, paste-on silver artwork by Roberto Opalio; insert. Includes download coupon. All records re-pressed in the original form; original label artworks; 4 black and 1 multi-color vinyls
Five seminal analog pearls from 2005 to 2010 re-issued and collected. MY CAT IS AN ALIEN 'On Air at Sound Projecting' (2005), live improvised performance rec…
Cosmic Debris, Vol.I
First installment in the new "Cosmic Debris" split ART-LP series set up by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka My Cat Is An Alien, on their own Opax Records. The Vol.I sees the two space brothers from Torino, Italy, alongside Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) and his all-star ensemble Text Of Light (this time 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 Ec…
Cosmic Debris, Vol.II
Second installment in the "Cosmic Debris" split ART-LP series set up by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka My Cat Is An Alien, on their own Opax Records. The Vol.II sees the two space brothers from Torino, Italy, alongside Californian visual and sound artist Steve Roden. What makes this collaborative release so peculiar is the natural interactive exchange occurred between the artists, and that came out from the concept behind the experience itself. Roden's contribution thus represents the unique e…
Cosmic Debris, Vol.III
Third installment in the "Cosmic Debris" split ART-LP series set up by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka My Cat Is An Alien, on their own Opax Records. The Vol.III sees the two space brothers from Torino, Italy, alongside Japanese cult musician and dark shaman Keiji Haino. Imagine a cosmic bomb exploding in your brain, and you'll have an approximate idea of this collaborative release. So, dear new-weird-america's hippy, you'd better keep your ass away from this total blast!.. no freak-folk here. …
Cosmic Debris, Vol.IV
Fourth volume in the ongoing "Cosmic Debris" series of split ART-LP releases set up by the Opalio brothers, aka MY CAT IS AN ALIEN (MCIAA), on their own Opax Records. This time the space improv duo from Torino, Italy, shares one side of the vinyl with Swedish radical saxophonist MATS GUSTAFSSON, whose twenty-year career boasts collaborations that range widely over the contemporary improvised music world, from masters of the free jazz such as Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey, Joe McPhee, to famous m…
Cosmic Debris, Vol.V
The fifth and final volume in the "Cosmic Debris" series of split ART-LP releases set up by the Opalio brothers, aka MY CAT IS AN ALIEN (MCIAA), on their own Opax Records, ends up at its best with the space duo sharing the vinyl surface with the legendary avant-blues guitarist Loren M. Connors. Connors, who can be considered as the last real bluesman on earth, has the rare ability to turn single guitar chords into pure poetry, and don't you think we all need more of that in these dark days? The …
Epocsonixarp
'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 whir…
On air at Sound Projecting
The entire recording of the improvised live performance at Ed Pinsent’s "Sound Projecting" radio show, broadcasted by London’s Resonance 104.4 fm on December 10th 2004. In these sessions MCIAA don’t play their usual cosmic guitars, but only a couple of space toys & toy-microphones, plus a pocket theremin & mini-casio provided by Pinsent on the occasion; also featuring Pinsent himself at turntables. A different aspect of MCIAA’s experimental research, as well as a new amazing adventure through th…
There\'s a flame___sometimes
New Opax edition of this key-work, recorded in Fall 2003 at the glorious MCIAA's Space Room studio which was based in an abandoned factory zone in Torino, Italy, and where all the Opalio brothers' first recordings saw the light! Based on a spoken-word poem whispered by Roberto Opalio over the space brothers' subtle texture of percussions, guitars and electronics, and now newly available in two lavishly packaged vinyl editions. Vinyl with handwritten labels, in handmade heavy cardboard folder jac…
Alien Blood
Original soundtrack from Roberto Opalio's film 'Alien Blood' (2005-2008), currently shown at SONIC YOUTH etc.: SENSATIONAL FIX museum exhibition, opened at LiFE museum (France) in June 2008, and already scheduled around the globe for the next couple of years. The improvised score by My Cat Is An Alien follows the minimal and surrealistic beginning of the film with sparse echoes of eerie sounds, growing in dark timbres and pathos. Maurizio Opalio's heavily effected 'blood percussions' compress th…