from MY CAT IS AN ALIEN & CÉDRIC STEVENS 'Abstract Expressionism For The Ears' 3LP + Digital Download (Opax Records, October 2014 / OPX037)

Physically and digitally available at Elliptical Noise via Bandcamp:
https://ellipticalnoise.bandcamp.com/album/abstract-expressionism-for-the-ears

Housed in heavy duty full color laminated jacket. Includes Digital Download card of entire album. Limited to only 300 copies. Artwork and all titles curated by visual artist Roberto Opalio.

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 album. With the support of La Communauté Française De Belgique the entire session is now available in its entirety on MCIAA’s legendary Opax Records, in the form of this colossal triple LP set entitled 'Abstract Expressionism For The Ears'. The session is made of long-form pieces instantaneously composed, recorded and mixed by the trio during those incredibly intense days and nights of recordings.
Dreamy architectures of sounds, floating sculptures of abstract drones and cannibal noise, modal piano, ancestral strings and electronic futurism, celestial music of the Spheres, imbued with impressive textures of vocal exorcisms by Roberto Opalio. Again your ears won’t find any point of reference when listening to this transcendent and essential work!

Instantaneously composed, performed and produced by My Cat Is An Alien & Cédric Stevens. Roberto Opalio: wordless vocalizations, alientronics, pedal effects, electronic devices, vertical piano; Maurizio Opalio: self-made string instrument, pedal effects, cymbal, piano strings, Roberto’s piano real-time loops; Cédric Stevens: electric guitar, analogue modular system, minimoog, various analogue pedals. 

Tracklisting:
Side A. Tasting The New Ether (22:25)
Side B. Intersection Of Shadows (25:04)
Side C. When The Sun Goes Down There’s Nothing Left To Tune - part I (19:14)
Side D. When The Sun Goes Down There’s Nothing Left To Tune - part II (17:31)
Side E. Shifting At Zero Gravity (25:02)
Side F-1. The Ineffable Call Of Tomorrow (14:46)
Side F-2. Just A Tone Of White Over Blue (4:36)

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MY CAT IS AN ALIEN & CÉDRIC STEVENS 'Abstract Expressionism For The Ears' (album sampler)

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Mary Shelley, ”Frankenstein”

Elliptical Noise is a platform and record label born to support and spread the musical universe of My Cat Is An Alien, aka brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio

Cédric Stevens career began in 93 as a DJ and techno producer under the pseudonym "Acid Kirk". He quickly established himself as a pivotal figure in the Belgian underground, producing over a dozen 12’’ and EPs. In 97, driven by his growing interest in experimental music, he launched his side project: "The Syncopated Elevators Legacy" (S.E.L.). The project served as a vehicle for Cédric to explore a more ambitious sound, based aroun...d experimentation rather than repetitive beats. Across the next decade, several EPs and mini LPs were released on different labels, each one with its very own specific approach. From experiments in electric currents and serpent patching (Siamese Level EP) to his own take on ‘musique concrete’ (Still Between the Battle & the Sheet EP) S.E.L.’s sound never ceased to investigate the most improbable sound sources as compositional tools. In 2012, an acclaimed anthology of his past work with remixes from Fennesz, My Cat Is An Alien, Burning Star Core and more was released on the London based Discrepant label, since then he has released several other records, more notably his last solo LP "Hanging In The Wires" (Discrepant, October 2014), a triple album with the world famous My Cat Is An Alien (My Cat Is An Alien & Cédric Stevens "Abstract Expressionism For The Ears" on Opax, October 2014) and collaborated with the most renowned avant-garde artists active today: Christian Fennesz (he co-wrote and played modular system on one track ("Sav") of his last album ("Becs", released on eMego in April 2014). Cédric is now focussing his energies on the full potential and dynamic harmonies between drone, noise and pastoral ambient.
His live show is a full analogue beast of a show made of an intricate set up of guitars, modulators, synths, and various FX pedals.


Brussels mighty dj and all true forward-thinker of electronic sound, Hugo "Ucture" Ficher is a man of many talents who kept our feet shaking and brains dancing for now more than three decades. Ucture started DJing in the early Belgian Techno days. Although his output over the past few years has been far more eclectic, he is still moving backwards and is now exploring the outer reaches of raving madness and fire-breathing beats.

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN & CÉDRIC STEVENS 'Abstract Expressionism For The Ears' (album sampler)

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