last update May 15th, 2008 

****** ROBERTO OPALIO & MCIAA @ SONIC YOUTH etc.: SENSATIONAL FIX ******

ROBERTO OPALIO & MY CAT IS AN ALIEN will participate to the forthcoming SONIC YOUTH etc.: SENSATIONAL FIX museum exhibition, that focuses on the multidisciplinary activities of the groundbreaking experimental guitar band Sonic Youth since its formation in 1981. It features the band's collaborations with visual artists, filmmakers, designers and musicians, as well as a choice of other works selected by the band. Through the multidisciplinary output of Sonic Youth and related works by other artists in the exhibition, an alternative history of contemporary culture is being uncovered in which the division between 'high art' and 'low art' is being called into question, while issues are explored such as teenage rebellion, adolescent wanderlust, gender, fame, fashion, sexuality, and religion.

ROBERTO OPALIO will present an exclusive installation entitled 'Alien Guitar Case #6', and his film 'Alien Blood' with soundtrack appositely created by MY CAT IS AN ALIEN.

The exhibition is initiated and curated by freelance curator Roland Groenenboom in collaboration with the band and will be presented at LiFE, St. Nazaire, France (from 17 June to 7 September 2008), MUSEION, Bolzano, Italy (from 10 October 2008 to 4 January 2009), and Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany (31 January to 26 April 2009). Further venues are currently in discussion, in Europe, the US and Asia. A complete description of the show can be found at www.sonicyouth.com  

****** PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST extended interview on Foxy Digitalis ****** 

The first ever extended article/ interview on the PPOPG project! by François Hubert on Foxy Digitalis (USA) 

Read now:

http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/features.php?which=307 
 

****** MY CAT IS AN ALIEN radio special on Germany's WDR radio ******* 

German WDR 3 radio will broadcast a special on MCIAA, featuring sounds & voices from the outer space! 

June 6th, 2008 h.23:05

WDR 3 radio, Koln - Germany

http://www.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/sendung.phtml?sendung=WDR+3+open:+FreiRaum&termineid=466582 

streaming the broadcast is possible here:

http://www.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/hoeren.phtml 
 

****** A GREAT MAGAZINE ****** 

Four new drawings by Roberto Opalio featured in the new magazine by Belgian obscure Sloow Tapes imprint:

V/A - A Great Magazine zine  (Sloow Tapes) Interviews with Book Of Am, Ed Yazijian, Geoff Mullen, Ghosting. Art and words by Ilyas Ahmed, Juan Arkotxa, Tara Burke, Darrell Buxton, Tom Carter, Cybele Collins, Sara Czerny, Bart De Paepe, Paul Grimes, Jani Hirvonen, Phil Legard, Samara Lubelski, Leslie Mackenzie, Marja Mikkonen, Thurston Moore, Roberto Opalio, Zachery Reno, Matt Valentine. Silkscreened coverfrogs by Colleen Kinsella."

update April 20th, 2008

****** NEW RELEASES OUT ******

**MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / MATS GUSTAFSSON - "Cosmic Debris, Vol.IV" split ART-LP (Opax Records)

**MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - "There's a flame___sometimes" LP (Opax Records) (2 new Opax lavishly packaged limited vinyl editions)

**MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - "Sotto le Stelle" etched LP (Lost Treasures of the Underworld) (ltd. edition of 100 in purple vinyl with etching by Roberto Opalio on one side; 3 color screen-printed covers)

**MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / VALERIO COSI - "Stories From The Vacuum" split 7" (Black Horizon) (limited to 500 in clear vinyl)

**PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST - "Fallen Camellias" CD (A Silent Place) (Second full-lenght album)

**PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST - "Fallen Camellias" 5x 1-sided 10" lathe-cut Box (Opax Records) (private press art edition of 9 copies)

**Great Magazine (Sloow Tapes) (features 4 new drawings by Roberto Opalio)

see 'releases' for all details--

last update: november 7th, 2007

****** NEW RELEASES OUT NOW ******

**ROBERTO OPALIO - "Whispers of the last Light, part I & II" lathe cut ART-LP + DVD-R (Opax Records) (The LP features 'Part One', expanded version from original OPX 020V, plus previous unreleased 'Part Two'; 2 different editions: ART ed. of 21 copies, and ART GALLERY ed. of 9 copies)
**MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - "speak, alien, SPEAK!" 3x C20 cassette set (Opax Records) (private edition of 60 handnumbered copies; in heavy cardboard with paisted artwork)
**MUSIC FOR PHANTOMS - "s/t" CD-R + DVD-R set (Opax Records) (New project by the Opalio brothers! private edition of 99 handnumbered copies; in heavy cardboard with paisted artwork)
**MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / KEIJI HAINO - "Cosmic Debris, Vol.III" split CD (A Silent Place/ Italy) (CD re-issue of the original ART-LP on Opax)
**MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / STEVE RODEN - "Cosmic Debris, Vol.II" split CD (A Silent Place/ Italy) (CD re-issue of the original ART-LP on Opax)
**MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - "Il Segno" CD (Starlight Furniture Co./ Revolver USA) (Expanded CD reissue feat. 2 previously unreleased extra tracks of 23 minutes)
**PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST - "S/T" CD (Time-Lag Records/ USA) (CD reissue of the out of print debut LP; lushly packaged in a mini version of the original lp packaging, with letterpress printed tri-fold cover. printed with copper ink on exquisite & massively thick handmade ivory art paper, each sheet cast one at a time & air dried)
**BLACK MAGIC DISCO - "s/t" 2xLP (A Silent Place/ Italy) (ltd. 500! deluxe vinyl version of the debut CD on Important Records; 2 color vinyls; gatefold full color jacket + poster)

see releases for details and reviews

****** FORTHCOMING LIVE SHOWS ******

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN live in Dijon & Prague

Saturday September 29th, 2007
FEEDBACK FESTIVAL
La Vapeur - Dijon (F)
(w/ Sonic Boom & Rob Mazurek)
www.whynote.com/cumulus_site/principal.html

Saturday October 13th, 2007
STYMUL FESTIVAL
Archa Theatre - Prague (CZ)
(w/ Keiji Haino)
www.stimul-festival.cz/EN/

****** ROBERTO OPALIO - PERSONAL EXHIBITION ******

Roberto Opalio's personal exhibition, 'Frammenti Cosmici', will open on October 19th at Zuni art space in Ferrara, Italy. The gallery will show new Roberto's SPACE-ART paintings, installations, photos + art-books, art-edition records, and videos. On the occasion of the opening the artist will make a special live performance, including music & videos.

Friday October 19th / Sunday November 11th 2007
Roberto Opalio - FRAMMENTI COSMICI -
Zuni - Ferrara (IT)
www.zuni.it

****** NEW RELEASE OUT NOW ******

- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / KEIJI HAINO - "Cosmic Debris, Vol.III" 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)

see releases for more details--

****** LIVE FOOTAGE on YOUTUBE ******

See three short MCIAA's live footage of pure Alien Action!

MCIAA @ Ferrara Sotto Le Stelle (Italy) July 2007
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSeOnMoo5Hc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcsdZ5rBA_c

MCIAA @ KRAAK Festival 2006 (Hasselt, B)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIDer29ri4A

****** FORTHCOMING RELEASES ******

**MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - "Il Segno" CD (Starlight Furniture Co./ Revolver USA) (expanded & remastered version; includes 2 tracks of 25 minutes from the original session)

**ROBERTO OPALIO - "Whispers of the last Light, part I & II" lathe cut ART-LP + DVD-R (Opax Records) (2 different editions: ART edition ltd. 21, ART-GALLERY edition ltd. 9; extended & revisited version of the original part 1 + previously unreleased part 2; includes a 30+min silent film by Roberto exclusively made for the lathe cut edition, totally different from the original issue OPX 020V - more details on art soon)

**PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST - "s/t" CD (Time-Lag Records) (CD re-issue of the debut LP; exact miniature special cardboard silkscreened jacket of the LP)

**MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / STEVE RODEN - "Cosmic Debris, Vol.II" split CD (A Silent Place) (CD re-issue of the original ART-LP on Opax)

**MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / VALERIO COSI - split 7" (Black Horizon) (limited 7" colored; metallic ink on vellum jackets)

**PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST / MYKEL BOYD - 7" split (Somnimage) (limited edition white vinyl; first 50 numbered copies include an original signed Polaroid by Ramona Ponzini)

****** new BLACK MAGIC DISCO CD out now! ******

- The debut CD release of the new project BLACK MAGIC DISCO is out now on Important Records; the new all-star band features Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (MCIAA), Ramona Ponzini (Praxinoscope, Painting Petals On Planet Ghost) and Tom Greenwood (Jackie-O Motherfucker) --

see details here

*** MY CAT IS AN ALIEN + SONIC YOUTH live in Italy! ***

Thursday July 5th, 2007
Spaziale Festival
Torino - Spazio 211
www.myspace.com/spazialefestival
www.spazio211.com

Friday July 6th, 2007
Ferrara Sotto Le Stelle Festival
Ferrara - Piazza Castello
www.ferrarasottolestelle.it/index.phtml?id=359

****** NEW ONLINE INTERVIEW ******

New interview to MCIAA on UK online magazine MUSIQUE MACHINE; by Roger Batty:

www.musiquemachine.com/articles/articles_template.php?id=113

****** ONLINE INTERVIEW ******

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&Itemi

****** 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 --

01/02/07 - ****** MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - VPRO STUDIO SESSION ******

MCIAA's recording session at Desmet Studio, Amsterdam on December 14th 2006 for Holland radio VPRO is now available for free via streaming at VPRO's website:

www.vpro.nl/programma/dwars/artikelen/32294219/

****** NEW RELEASES OUT ******

- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - "Leave me in the Black No-Thing" CD (Important Records) (new full-lenght album on Important)

- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - "Into the White Vortex" 1-sided ART-LP (Opax Records) (private press ltd. edition of 110 copies / A 23 minutes piece of cosmic wilderness crescendo alongside an entire side surface painted and signed by Roberto Opalio)

- ROBERTO OPALIO - "Chants from isolated ghosts" CD (Important Records) (re-issue of the long-out-of-print and acclaimed debut soloist album by one half of MCIAA Roberto Opalio)

- ROBERTO OPALIO - "The last night of the Angel of Glass, Vol.I & II" 2xCD (A Silent Place) (double cd set re-issueing the Vol.I originally released on Foxglove, plus an entire disc 2 featuring the previously unreleased Vol.II, second part of the Angel of Glass session)

- V/A - "Random Sounds Vol.2" CD-R (Indie Workshop) (ltd. 3-way split cd-r featuring MCIAA, Everlovely Lightningheart and (VxPxC))

see releases for details --

****** FORTHCOMING RELEASES ******

- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / STEVE RODEN - "Cosmic Debris, Vol.II" split ART-LP (Opax Records)

- MAURIZIO OPALIO - "Way up to Enfer" lathe cut ART-LP + book (Opax Records)

- ROBERTO OPALIO - "Whispers of the last Light, Vol.I & II" lathe cut ART-LP + DVD-R (Opax Records)

01/11/06 - ****** FORTHCOMING MY CAT IS AN ALIEN LIVE SHOWS - DECEMBER 2006 ******

December 8-10, 2006
ATP / NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (SOLD OUT)
Butlins Holiday Centre, Minehead, Somerset (UK)
*MCIAA will perform on Sunday Dec 10th
www.atpfestival.com

Tuesday December 12th, 2006
Les Instants Chavirès - Paris, Montreuil (F)
(w/ Discipline)
www.instantschavires.com

Wednesday December 13th, 2006
VPRO radio - Amsterdam (NL)
www.vpro.nl
(more infos soon about the special which will follow the recording session and the interview by Berry Kamer/VPRO)

Thursday December 14th, 2006
Kulturbunker-Mulheim - Cologne (D)
(w/ Merzbow)
www.kulturbunker-muelheim.de

Friday December 15th, 2006
STATE-X NEW FORMS festival
(w/ Sonic Youth)
Paard van Troje - Den Haag (NL)
www.state-xnewforms.nl

Saturday December 16th, 2006
Kunstencentrum BELGIE - Hasselt (B)
(w/ special guests: Fursaxa + Black Forest / Black Sea)
doors: 19h00
1st show: 20h00
www.kunstencentrumbelgie.com
belgie@skynet.be

****** NEW RELEASES OUT ******

- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - "Il suono venuto dallo spazio" CD (Les Disques VICTO, Canada) (recording of the live performance at the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, May 2006)
- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / TEXT OF LIGHT - "Cosmic Debris, Vol.I" split ART-LP (Opax Records) (first installment in the new series of 5 volumes, also featuring Steve Roden, Keiji Haino, Mats Gustafsson, Loren Connors & his Haunted House band; every record comes together with a proper painting on 30x30cm canvas by Roberto Opalio)
- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - "On air at Sound Projecting" LP (Opax Records)(re-issue of the long-out-of-print cd-r, in a special private press edition of only 158, with heavy textured cardboard sleeve + full-color insert, individually numbered)
- PRAXINOSCOPE - "Epocsonixarp" LP/ CD-R (Opax Records)(second full-lenght album of the project run by Roberto Opalio and Ramona Ponzini; both come as special private press editions of only 130, with heavy textured cardboard sleeve + pasted-on art on cover, individually numbered)
- PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST - "Oounabara" 1-sided 12" lathe cut + DVD-R (Opax Records)(special lathe cut vinyl edition by Peter King, New Zealand; private editon of 50 copies, with original Ramona's copper-gold ink drawing on the flipside of the vinyl; also included a Roberto's silent short film on dvd-r, inspired by music + art, that you can play together or separately; handnumbered)
- PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST - "Oounabara" C20 cassette (Opax Records)(limited to 62 copies, with original Ramona's copper-gold ink drawing on Japanese paper; handnumbered) (it contains the same track of the lathe cut edition + an alternate shortest take of the same song)

see releases for details--

****** FORTHCOMING RELEASES ******

- ROBERTO OPALIO - "The last night of the Angel of Glass, Vol.I & II" 2xCD (A Silent Place) (double CD set reissuing the first part appeared on the long-out-of-print omonimous CD-R + DVD-R set on Foxglove, plus the totally previously unreleased second part (entire disc 2) of the work; the 6-panels gatefold sleeve features stills taken from the omonimous Roberto's film)
- MAURIZIO OPALIO - "Way up to Enfer" LP lathe cut (Opax Records) (special lathe cut vinyl edition by Peter King, New Zealand; private edition of 50 copies, with original Maurizio's charcoal drawing on cover; 1 extra unreleased track + book featuring a Maurizio's short poem inspired by the music; handnumbered)

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******ANNOUNCED LIVE EVENTS******

MCIAA will take part in the next edition of the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival, which will run 8-10 December 2006 in Somerset, UK; this year edition's curator is Thurston Moore, and the line-up features Iggy & The Stooges, Sonic Youth, Dead C, Jackie-O Motherfucker, MC5 feat. Mark Arm, Dinosaur Jr., Gang of Four, Nurse With Wound, Bardo Pond, Six Organs of Admittance, Charalambides, No Neck Blues Band, Melvins, Peter Brotzman, White Out w/ Nels Cline and many many more...

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
December 8-10, 2006
ATP / NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Butlins Holiday Centre, Minehead, Somerset, UK
infos, details and tickets: www.atpfestival.com

******NEW RELEASES OUT******

- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN "Greetings from the Great Void" double LP (Eclipse Records)(more details soon)
- PRAXINOSCOPE "s/t" picture disc LP (A Silent Place)(ltd. reissue of the long-out-print Opax cd-r)
- ROBERTO OPALIO "Whispers of the last Light" DVD-R (Opax Records)(first dvd-r on Opax, feat. a short film with unreleased soundtrack)
- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN "...Ascends the sky" CD (Rebis) (expanded reissue of the long-out-print Opax cd-r, feat. a 20 minutes unreleased track)
- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN "The secret of the Dancing Snow" CD (Ikuisuus)(new full-lenght album on Finnish label Ikuisuus)
- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / CORSICAN PAINTBRUSH split 10" lathe cut (Opax Records/ Foxglove)(ltd.ed. of 50 manufactured by Peter King)
- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN "Plutonian flames" 2xCD-R (Opax Records)(2nd edition of this acclaimed double cd-r)
- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / TONY HERRINGTON "Joint Multiples 04" Box/CD-R/Painting/Polaroid/Painted Photograph (The Wire editor-in-chief Tony Herrington invited MCIAA to contribute to his art box edition series)
- VARIOUS ARTISTS "Orange/ Red/ Yellow Gold" split C20 cassettes (Gold Soundz)(ultra limited split cassette series on Norwegian cult label Gold Soundz)

see releases for detailed infos on all these records---

******NEWS & PROJECTS IN THE WORKS******

- The new MCIAA's "Greetings from the Great Void" double LP on Eclipse Records is finally ready (www.eclipse-records.com) --
- Opax Records presents a limited run of new promotional T-shirts entitled to the forthcoming "Cosmic Debris" split ART-LPs series (see other stuff for details)
- The interview to MCIAA run by journalist Eric Theriault on the occasion of the FIMAV in Victoriaville, and broadcasted on CKUT Radio in Montreal during the month of June 2006, is now featured on Panpot.ca; the original audio file is downloadable on mp3 too (www.panpot.ca/features/renderInterview.php?id=21)
- The last volume of the "From the earth to Spheres" split series Christian Marclay & Okkyung Lee / My Cat Is An Alien is going to be out in early September on A Silent Place label; on the same label MCIAA and Fabio Orsi will celebrate Alan Lomax with a tribute split CD --
- The new Ecstatic Poetry Journal # 7, edited by Thurston Moore, is out now and features two poems by both Maurizio and Roberto Opalio (see releases for details) (order copies here www.ecstaticpeace.com / www.yod.com)
- The new Dream Magazine issue #6 features an extended MCIAA article/ interview, and comes out with a CD comp with a previously unreleased MCIAA's track, alongside exclusive tracks by Steve Roden, The North Sea, Bridget St.John and more (order copies here www.dreamgeo.com) --
- A new Roberto Opalio's double CD entitled "The last night of the Angel of Glass, Vol. I & II" will be released in Fall 2006 on A Silent Place; the set will include the whole soundtrack to the omonimous film (released as a ltd.ed. DVD-R + CD-R set on Foxglove in January 2006) plus an entire full-lenght disc of previously unreleased material taken from the same session--
- MCIAA & Ramona Ponzini have recorded new material for the follow-up to Painting Petals On Planet Ghost debut "s/t" LP released on Time-Lag Records in late 2005, and which will be reissued on CD format by the same label later this year; the new album will see the light in 2007 --
- Following the success of MCIAA's "Cosmic Light of the Third Millennium" CD (already sold out at source), two new CD releases are planned on Important Records: a new MCIAA full-lenght album, and the reissue of the acclaimed and long-out-of-print Roberto Opalio's first soloist work "Chants from isolated ghosts"; the two should be out in November 2006--

******PRESS UPDATED******

- latest interviews & reviews on the press page --

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FORTHCOMING LIVE ACTS:
May the 20th (Saturday), 2006 - h. 00:15
MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL MUSIQUE ACTUELLE
VICTORIAVILLE, Québec (Canada)

infos, details and tickets: www.fimav.qc.ca
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FORTHCOMING RADIO SPECIAL:
BORDERLINE EXTRA about MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
May, 5th (20:00-21:00)
Freies Radio Kassel (105.8 FM)

The special will be also audible (in realaudio) from May, 6th at
www.borderline-extra.de
The realaudio-file will be available there for 3 months.
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4/25/2006 - PREVIEW------------THE "COSMIC DEBRIS" SPLIT ART-LPs SERIES-------------PREVIEW

Directly from the most remote and obscure regions of the Cosmos, Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka MY CAT IS AN ALIEN, are proud to announce a new series of split art-LPs set up on their own Opax Records. The series of collaborations, entitled "Cosmic debris", will see the space duo alongside artists such as Stan Brakhage's films mixed media performing ensemble TEXT OF LIGHT (Lee Ranaldo, Christian Marclay, Alan Licht, William Hooker, Tim Barnes, Ulrich Krieger, Dj Olive), Californian audio visual artist and composer STEVE RODEN, Swedish avant-saxophonist MATS GUSTAFSSON, avant-blues living legend LOREN MAZZACANE CONNORS, and Japanese dark shaman improviser KEIJI HAINO.

Each record will be released in a numbered and signed edition of only 100 copies, and will come out alongside an acrylic painting by ROBERTO OPALIO on 30x30cm proper canvas as sleeves, with a unique Polaroid installed on each piece, 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.

The opening OPX LP8 - MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / TEXT OF LIGHT "Cosmic debris" split ART-LP Vol.1 will be available in late May/ early June 2006. The following volumes will come out as bimonthly releases.
A following re-issue of the series on regular CD format is already planned.

For all further informations, please contact us--

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-The seventh and final volume of the "From the earth to the Spheres" split LP series (Christian Marclay & Okkyung Lee/ MCIAA) is ready on Opax Records, as well as the latest CD re-issue in the series Glands of External Secretion/MCIAA is out now on Very Friendly/ Cargo UK;
- MCIAA's "Cosmic Light of the Third Millennium" new full-lenght CD is out now on Important Records, introduced by a special limited 7 inch "Introducing the Cosmic Blues";
-Two new full-lenght MCIAA limited vinyl LPs are out now: "Listen before Black falls" on Root Strata, label run by Jefre Cantu of San Francisco band Tarentel, and "There's a flame___sometimes" on Chicago Rococo Records;
----click here for details on all the records listed above----

-Go to the following links for a short photo/video reportage of My Cat Is An Alien at K-RAA-K Festival 2006:
Photos by Ronny Wertelaers: http://users.pandora.be/wertelaers.ronny
Film by Jef Mertens on Ecstatic Peace (see in the NEWS column, March 6th update) : www.ecstaticpeace.com

- The new My Favourite Magazine printed by Bart De Paepe on his own Sloow Tapes imprint (well-known for the amazing analog cassette releases), features an article written by both Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, alongside some alien drawings by Roberto -
http://sloowtapes.blogspot.com/

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FORTHCOMING LIVE ACTS:

March 4th, 2006
MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
(K-RAA-K)3 Festival 2006 - Hasselt, Belgium
www.kraak.net/festival2006
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2/10/2006 - A Silent Place is the new Italian label (related to Smallvoices imprint) re-issuing MCIAA's "Different shades of Blue" on vinyl and in a new and different form (the first version went out as U-Sound Archive Vol.19 cd-r); see all details on this new versions here--
- The first audio/visual work by Roberto Opalio is finally out on Foxglove! "The last night of the Angel of glass" it's a DVD-R + CD-R set featuring one of his films (about 50 min), whose soundtrack has been made available as a new only-audio work on the extra cd-r support (see "releases" for details)
- Opax Records wants to start 2006 with two new limited edition CD-Rs, featuring MCIAA's first totally acoustic recording "Folclore Alieno", and Maurizio Opalio's debut soloist release "Way up to Enfer" (see "releases" for details)
- MCIAA's "The Cosmological Eye Trilogy" 3CD set on Last Visible Dog has been mentioned by Foxy Digitalis magazine's editor Brad Rose as the best record of 2005 in the "Anthology" section:
BEST ANTHOLOGY - My Cat Is An Alien "The Cosmological Eye Trilogy" 3 CD set (Last Visible Dog)
"As 2005 went on, I became a bigger and bigger My Cat is an Alien fan. This Italian brother-duo are cosmic travellers, giving us earthlings a taste of stellar dust. This 3 CD set is absolutely essential. A pile of music to reach the summit of Olympus Mons, missing this would be an absolute crime." (Brad Rose, 2005 charts, Foxy Digitalis editor)
(see reviews on the 3CD set here)
Also, in the same charts, as "Honorable Mentions" you'll find two comps featuring MCIAA with two unreleased tracks:
BEST VARIOUS ARTISTS COMPILATION
- "The Invisible Pyramid" 6 CD (Last Visible Dog)
- "The Tone of the Universe (= the Tone of the Earth)" 2 CD (Pseudoarcana)

12/23/2005 - The debut release of the new project PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST (Ramona Ponzini, Maurizio & Roberto Opalio) is finally out now on Time-Lag Records (USA), in a stunning limited only-vinyl double edition; see "releases" for details--
- The first cd-r label of Portugal, Esquilo Records, has debuted with MCIAA's "Astral Key" release;

10/23/2005 - "The Cosmological Eye Trilogy" 3xCD set is finally out on Last Visible Dog records (USA), and features the previously unreleased "part three - Into the Whirlpool galaxy", plus lots of new cosmic unreleased material, besides the re-mastered versions of "part one" and "part two" (originally released as Opax cd-rs, now out of print); still regarding Last Visible Dog records, MCIAA play a 20-minutes-previously-unreleased track in the mastodontic "The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy box" 6xCD compilation, along with Uton, Black Forest/Black Sea, Birchville Cat Motel, Loren Chasse, Bardo Pond, Keijo, Fursaxa, Ashtray Navigations, Peter Wright, Avarus and many many more--
- The "From the earth to the Spheres" split-LP series Vol.6 Glands Of External Secretion feat. Nels Cline/ MCIAA is ready and out now on Opax Records!!, while the split CD re-issue Vol.4 Christina Carter & Andrew MacGregor/ MCIAA will be available from Oct 24 on Very Friendly/Cargo UK--
- Still on Opax Rec, the new MCIAA's "Plutonian flames" 2xCD-R is out now, but limited to 120 only--
- Roberto Opalio's new soloist work "voice with no guitar/ guitar with no voice" is out now as first installment of Opax Tapes, the new division of Opax Records set up in order to release works on analog cassette format only--
(see "releases" for more details on ALL these records!!).

-------------SOME OF THE NEW RELEASES SCHEDULED IN LATE 2005/ EARLY 2006:
- Finnish new label Ikuisuus is going to release a new CD by MCIAA, entitled "The secret of the Dancing Snow" (due sometime by the end of the year) as well as the LP re-issue of Roberto Opalio's first soloist "Chants from isolated ghosts", which will be ready at the beginning of 2006--
- Roberto Opalio' next full-lenght soloist work "The last night of the Angel of Glass" will be release in late 2005 on American Digital Industries/ Foxglove label: it will be Roberto's first release on DVD-r support, featuring one of his films alongside his new soloist musical work; it will come together with a CD-R containing only the musical soundtrack-- Still on the same label a new MCIAA's CD is due sometime in Spring 2006--
- Important! Records (USA) will release "Cosmic Light of the Third Millennium", a new work by MCIAA, in early Spring 2006;
- The first MCIAA's release on an Italian label is due later this year on the new A Silent Place records-
- A new MCIAA's limited vinyl LP entitled "Listen before Black falls" will see the light on Root Strata, the San Francisco-based label run by Jefre Cantu of Tarentel, and is due in late 2005--
- MCIAA' "...Ascends the sky" will be re-issued on CD format on Chicago-based Rebis, label run by noise-explorer-duo Number None; the record will also feature previously unreleased extra-material--

08/04/2005 - Roberto Opalio and Ramona Ponzini have started their new project called Praxinoscope, with the homonymous CD-R on Opax Records; "Alien Minds", the first MCIAA's cassette release, is just out now on Belgian label Sloow Tapes (see "releases" for details).

06/20/05 - The Wire t-shirt of the month (#257, July 2005) features Roberto Opalio’s original piece of artwork entitled “alien_vinyl_astral_interconnection”- The t-shirt comes in a special ltd run of 100 only!
-The new “Black shadows from Jupiter” special private press LP is out on Opax Records; also, Roberto Opalio’s soloist work “Chants from isolated ghosts” is now available as a special art ltd lathe-cut vinyl ed of 50 only! (see “Releases” for details)
- MCIAA’s U-Soud Archive volume is finally out, together with two new CD compilations on Pseudoarcana and Rebis labels, featuring previously unreleased tracks. (see “Releases” for details)

MCIAA will tour UK from May 21-27.
05/21 – Newcastle: The Sage Gateshead “Music Lovers’ Field Companion” Festival
MCIAA’s live performance will feature a special dual film projections by Roberto Opalio. www.musicloversfieldcompanion.org
05/23 – Glasgow: Centre for Contemporary Arts – with Jandek, Taurpis Tula, Keiji Haino.
05/24 – Edinburgh: The Subway, Cowgate.
05/25 – Cambridge: Cb2 Basement
05/27 – London: Dalston Barden's Boudoir

MCIAA and Ramona Ponzini will join Tom Greenwood as members of Jackie-O Motherfucker in the following European shows:
05/10 – Bilbao (E): Azkena
05/11 – Vigo (E): Vademecum
05/12 – Porto (P): Teatro Paços de Manuel
05/13 – Lisbon (P): Galeria Zé dos Bois
05/14 – Madrid (E): Siroco
05/15 – Barcelona (E): Razzmatazz 3
05/17 – Londra (UK): Dalston Barden's Boudoir
31-05 – Roma, Rialto
01-06 – Napoli
02-06 – Faenza, Clandestino
03-06 – Mezzago (Milano), Bloom

04/25/05 – MCIAA’s new extended interview & review by Foxy Digitalis’s editor Brad Rose are now on-line:
www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/mciaa1.html
www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/mciaa_rain.html
- The San Francisco based KFJC Radio will broadcast a 4-hour-long special entirely dedicated to MCIAA on Saturday the 21st of May, from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m.
The special, conducted by DJ Terry Tike, will feature a long interview by phone to Opalio brothers, as well as a mini-line MCIAA’s performance, and other short talks with some of the artists involved in the “From the earth to the Spheres” split series. During the special, several MCIAA LPs, CDs and T-shirts will be given as gift to the listeners. (www.kfjc.org/programming/mayhem/index.php)
- The Christina Carter/ MCIAA split LP vol.5 is out now, featuring Carter’s first recording of her new duo project with Andrew MacGregor.
Still regarding “From the earth to the Spheres”, JOMF/MCIAA split vol.3 is available now on CD format by Very Friendly/Cargo Records UK.

03/15/2005 – The new “When the windmill’s whirl dies” LP is finally out now on Eclipse Records! click “Releases” for details… Also, on the same page, the just out “Everything is here” lathe-cut 7” on Norway’s Gold Soundz label.
-“The Sound Projector” magazine 2005 issue (#13) is out now, featuring a 5-pages article/interview to MCIAA by editor Ed Pinsent.
- The Chicago based Rococo Records label will release a new MCIAA’s work entitled “There’s a flame_ _ _sometimes”; this is going to be a special only-vinyl edition, due in Summer 2005.

02/01/2005 – On the 22th of February, MCIAA will make an audiovisual performance at Fri-Son , Fribourg (Switzerland); they’ll play in quadraphonia in the center of a room, with the public all around and the interaction of screenings filmed by the brothers. Featuring Kodama and MNortham..
- The new exclusive MCIAA’s album on CD format, entitled “Through the reflex of the rain”, is out on the San Francisco-based Free Porcupine Society label; Mr. Rob Fisk, one of MCIAA’s favourite American illustrators to date, is the direct responsible for the original artwork, on special silkscreened gatefold cardboard jackets.
- A new couple of cd-rs are out on Opax Rec: “On air at Sound Projecting”, an improv performance that MCIAA recorded live at Ed Pinsent’s “Sound Projecting” radio show, broadcasted on Resonance 104.4 fm, London (Dec. 10, 2004), and a new soloist work from the brother Roberto Opalio, entitled “Chants from isolated ghosts”.
-The “From the earth to the Spheres” split LPs series vol.4 (Jim O’Rourke/MCIAA) is ready, and it will be an exclusive release of the Opax Rec vinyl series.
- MCIAA will appear with a 10 min previously unreleased track on the first Rebis compilation, “Time and Relative Dimensions in Space”, which will also feature long-form drone works from Taurpis Tula, Number None and more.

12/19/2004- This month The Wire January 2005 issue features a MCIAA’s article/interview written by Tony Herrington; also, a long & expanded version of the interview is available as exclusive of The Wire website (www.thewire.co.uk) - MCIAA’s "From the earth to the Spheres" vols 1-2-3 are included in The Wire’s "Avant Rock" top 10 playlist of 2004-

12/10/2004- MCIAA will appear at Ed Pinsent's "The Sound Projecting" show on RESONANCE 104.4 fm (London) from 5:30 to 7:00 pm; the show will be on line visiting www.resonancefm.com , and will be repeated on Saturday the 18th at 7:00 am

10/20/2004- Out now JOMF/MCIAA vol.3 split LP on OPAX RECORDS-

10/02/2004- Because of the big response to My Cat Is An Alien’s own Opax Records “From the earth to the Spheres” split LPs series, completely sold-out on pre-orders, all the volumes will be issued on CD format by VERY FRIENDLY/CARGO RECORDS UK . The cover artworks will be taken from the original handpainted wooden sleeves by Roberto Opalio and the vol.1 “Thurston Moore/MCIAA” will be out on November 15th. The following releases will feature Thuja, JOMF, Christina Carter, Double Leopards, Glands of External Secretion (w/ Nels Cline) and Christian Marclay; “Jim O’Rourke/MCIAA” split vol. will be an exclusive release of the Opax Records vinyl series-

09/25/2004- MCIAA spent some days in some mysterious locations in Western Alps mountains, where they recorded the first work as PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST, their new side-project trio featuring Ramona Ponzini singing in traditional Japanese. This recording will be issued on vinyl format by TIME-LAG RECORDS (USA) in Spring 2005-
- The new fortcoming MCIAA's LP on ECLIPSE RECORDS entitled "When the windmill's whirl dies" will be out in January 2005-
- The new MCIAA’s CD called “Through the reflex of the rain” will be released on January 10th 2005 by the San Francisco-based FREE PORCUPINE SOCIETY (now exclusive label of Revolver USA). The packaging will be illustrated by Rob Fisk-

08/10/2004- SONIC YOUTH invited MCIAA to perform at the opening date of their European tour at La Batie Festival in Geneve (CH). The show will take place on August 26th at the prestigious Victoria Hall, a theatre considered the temple of classical music in Switzerland… SY/MCIAA will be the first rock bands performing there…

08/03/2004-in early 2005 LAST VISIBLE DOG label (USA) will issue a special triple CD set of the complete “The Cosmological Eye Trilogy" sessions, including pt.1 + pt.2 (originally released on Opax Records as ltd. ed. cd-rs), together with the previously unreleased pt.3 & lots of other unissued material-
- MCIAA will split a vinyl LP alongside Danish droneoutfit Family Underground. The record will be released as a ltd ed of 200 copies on Christian Staadsgaard’s REVERSE label in Copenhagen (DK) in early 2005-
- MCIAA proudly announce their first 7” format, a special lathe-cut edition handmade by the well-known Newzealander Peter King in a run of 50 (!) copies, which will be released by the Norway-based Sindre Bjerga’s GOLD SOUNDZ label at the end of the year-
- A fortcoming MCIAA’s volume on JOMF U-SOUND ARCHIVE will be out soon-

06/28/2004- While touring Northern Italy Thuja’s Loren Chasse and sound-sculptor Mnortham joined Opalio brothers in a couple of totally improvised sessions at MCIAA’s Space Room & Time Room-
- In December 2004 Antony Milton’s New Zealand-based PSEUDOARCANA label will release its first proper CD compilation dedicated to the Cosmos, featuring MCIAA, JOMF, Thuja, Birchville Cat Motel and more...

05/05/2004- We’re starting on our own OPAX RECORDS label a new series of special split LPs entitled “From the earth to the Spheres”- We'd like to create a "space" of collaboration between MCIAA and some of the improv bands/artists we most like and estimate for pushing the music forward, towards the heart of the Cosmos-
We conceived each vol. as a special ltd. SPACE ART edition of 100 copies only!! The "sleeves" will be proper 31x31cm Roberto Opalio's original paintings on wood, in space-materic style... a piece of galaxy put together w/ a vinyl!!
Each split vol. will present the guest band/artist on A side, and MCIAA on B side-
Thurston Moore will open the series w/ vol.1 (out July 2004)- Next vols will feature Thuja, Jakie-O Motherfucker, Jim O’Rourke, Christina Carter, Glands of External Secretion (w/ Nels Cline), and Christian Marclay-