Spiritual Noise__Vol.1

Spiritual Apocalypse

SIDE A - Spiritual Apocalypse

Noise Deliverance

SIDE B - Noise Deliverance

Sample from the album "Spiritual Noise_Vol.2" (Antigravitational Records NTG-1000, out September 2019).
Buy here: https://antigravitational.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-noise-vol-2

This piece has been premiered at 20th annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (SFEMF)

TRACKLIST:
1. Rage And Beatitude Of Pain (07:50)	
2. As Meteors Before Disintegration (13:35)	
3. Silver Glimpse Of Infinity (16:27)

ALBUM CREDITS:
Maurizio Opalio – self-made double-bodied string instrument, pedal effects
Roberto Opalio – wordless vocalizations, modified analog drum machine, pedal effects, alientronics

Instantaneous compositions performed, recorded and mixed by My Cat Is An Alien in their secret Alien Zone HQs in Western Alps; January 3-5, 2019.
Mastering by Fabrizio Ronco.
Produced by MCIAA.

“Art is... nothing... if not vision. / Vision is... nothing... if not poetry. / Poetry is... nothing... if not music. / Music is... nothing... if not noise. / Noise is... nothing... if not spirit. / Spirit is... nothing... if not love. THURSTON MOORE, 2019 (dedication poem to My Cat Is An Alien’s “Spiritual Noise”).

"SPIRITUAL NOISE" is how My Cat Is An Alien baptized their own music and intermedia work at the beginning of their third decade of activity. Volume 2 in the ‘Spiritual Noise’ ongoing series is a further step ahead in the unheard new music territories of MCIAA. Released on the new ANTIGRAVITATIONAL imprint—the record label & multimedia platform created and curated by MCIAA and set up with gallerist and publisher Marco Contini—and designed following principles of seriality and of installation art, the vinyl LP takes the shape of a multimedia object which displays a proper artbook mounted on the cover jacket, and gives access to cinematic poetry films and extra contents for a fully immersive experience.
“After regularly immersing myself in the otherworldly vision of My Cat is an Alien for the last several years, I sometimes forget how incredibly far beyond recognizable, earthbound sounds the Opalios have traveled in their twenty years of recording. Aside from Roberto's spectral signature vocals, ‘Spiritual Noise’ feels like it could have been crafted almost entirely from haunting and mysterious transmissions picked up by the SETI institute.[..] Record store shelves are full of well-meaning bearded men wielding tablas and tamburas, hellbent on prying open my third eye or kicking down my doors of perception. Some of them have made some absolutely wonderful albums, but none have gone as far as My Cat is an Alien.” BRAINWASHED (USA)

“ ‘Spiritual Noise’ transcends the frontiers of advanced music. Superb! ” Rate 5/5 - LOOP. CL

Spiritual Noise__Vol​.​2

Silver Glimpse Of Infinity

My Cat Is An Alien - SPIRITUAL NOISE__Vol.2 (sample)

Debut release by the new ANTIGRAVITATIONAL imprint, the record label & multimedia platform created and curated by My Cat Is An Alien (MCIAA), set up with gallerist and publisher Marco Contini.

Sample from the album "Spiritual Noise_Vol.1" (Antigravitational Records NTG-0999), out May 2019.
Buy here: https://antigravitational.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-noise-vol-1

TRACKLIST:
1. Spiritual Apocalypse (20:33)	
2. Noise Deliverance (20:11)

ALBUM CREDITS:
Maurizio Opalio – self-made double-bodied string instrument, pedal effects
Roberto Opalio – wordless vocalizations, modified analog drum machine, pedal effects, alientronics

Instantaneous compositions performed, recorded and mixed by My Cat Is An Alien in their secret Alien Zone HQs in Western Alps; January 1-2, 2019.
Mastering by Fabrizio Ronco.
Produced by MCIAA.

"MCIAA PHASE THREE — WE BAPTIZE THE SPIRITUAL NOISE" reads Roberto Opalio’s aesthetics Manifesto: SPIRITUAL NOISE opens the third decade of activity by iconoclastic instantaneous composers, musicians, performers and visual artists Maurizio and Roberto Opalio.

Fully focused on MCIAA’s "aliencentric" vision, Antigravitational’s main purpose is to offer the experience of the deepest immersion in the sound and visual matter of each work of intermedia art by the brothers–as duo, as soloists, as well as in collaborations with some of the most talented artists of our time.
Pursuing their ongoing fight against the digital-only fruition of concepts and contents of today, MCIAA privilege the thingness of physical mediums to fix their art, aiming to survive the non-permanence over time.
Designed following principles of seriality and of installation art, each release takes the shape of a multimedia object which displays a proper artbook mounted on the LP cover jacket, and gives access to cinematic poetry films and extra contents as further investigations. Various combinations of objects and formats are intended to provide an ever-expanding universe of multistratified references and meanings.

REVIEWS

"There are no recognizable chords, there are no recognizable scales (Western or Eastern), there are no recognizable instruments, and there are absolutely no apparent influences from other artists. [..] That is what makes Spiritual Noise a significant new entry in MCIAA's extensive discography." - BRAINWASHED (USA)

Spiritual Noise_Vol.1

My Cat Is An Alien - SPIRITUAL NOISE__Vol.1 (sample)

excerpts from the double album 'MCIAA XX Anniversary' (Antigravitational Records NTG-1001) out December 2019.
Buy here: https://antigravitational.bandcamp.com/album/mciaa-xx-anniversary
Get Full HD video of the complete concert (64'40'') as exclusive streaming with album purchase only.

TRACKLISTING:
1 - 'MCIAA XX Anniversary' (total running time 64:03)

ALBUM CREDITS:

MAURIZIO OPALIO – self-made double-bodied string instrument, pedal effects, bell
ROBERTO OPALIO – wordless vocalizations, bodhran, alientronics, toy mic, electric guitar, space toys
JEAN-MARC MONTERA – table top guitar, small gong
LEE RANALDO – vocals, electric guitar, bells

Instantaneous composition performed live at Alfa Teatro, Turin, Italy on September 12, 2018. Recorded by David Chamla. Mastered by Fabrizio Ronco. Mixed by MCIAA using different audio sources from main desk, video footage and ambience.

This is highly important music and this 3-sided LP contains the complete live performance (total running time 64:03)

© 2019 My Cat Is An Alien / Jean-Marc Montera / Lee Ranaldo. All rights reserved.
© 2019 Antigravitational Records, a division of Kappabit. All rights reserved

On September 12, 2018 Sonic Youth co-founder Lee Ranaldo and guitarist extraordinaire Jean-Marc Montera joined Maurizio and Roberto Opalio in their hometown Torino, Italy, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the brothers’ visionary project My Cat Is An Alien. That evening the stage of Alfa Teatro—a liberty-style, historical theater built in 1928—hosted the live world premiere of this quartet, whose members already collaborated live and on records with each other during the years, yet never all the four together. The quartet live performance followed MCIAA’s radical aesthetic of “instantaneous composition”, where nothing is defined nor drafted prior to the act of music creation, and every sound and action is shaped around a higher-order scheme dictated by the empathy and synergy of the actual moment of enlightenment. The show was also accompanied by the projection of a brand new cinematic poetry dual film created by Roberto Opalio and previewed on the occasion, whose Super-8 film’s relentless flickering and ascending motion worked “ad hoc” to match the music and body gestures of the performance, thus enhancing its transcendental power.
That night Maurizio Opalio (self-made double-bodied wooden string instrument, pedal effects, bell), Roberto Opalio (wordless vocalizations, bodhran, Alientronics, electric guitar, space toys), Jean-Marc Montera (table top guitar, pedals, little gong), and Lee Ranaldo (vocals, electric guitar, bells) moved through still unexplored and unheard music territories.
This music is a pure ecstatic revelation, a unique, powerful and spiritual experience all of its own. Listening to this album we are offered a true epiphany as just uniquely gifted genius improvisers/composers of the past would grace our ears and souls

MCIAA XX Anniversary

My Cat Is An Alien / Jean-Marc Montera / Lee Ranaldo - "MCIAA XX Anniversary" (sample)

New platform curated by world-renowned instantaneous composers, performers and visual artists Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka My Cat Is An Alien, set up with gallerist and publisher Marco Contini, focusing on MCIAA's aliencentric, iconoclastic vision.