My Cat Is an Alien

My Cat Is An Alien
Origin	Turin, Italy
Genres	experimental, avant garde, audiovisual performance
Years active	1997 –present
Labels	Atavistic, Elliptical Noise, Important, Opax Records
Associated acts	Painting Petals On Planet Ghost Praxinoscope Music For Phantoms Black Magic Disco
Website	mycatisanalien.com
Members
Maurizio Opalio Roberto Opalio

My Cat Is An Alien (MCIAA) is the name of an Italian musical duo consisting of brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio from Torino in Italy. They release avant garde /experimental music and are often classified as improv. ^[1]

MCIAA's first live show was supporting Sonic Youth in 1998. Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth is a fan and has collaborated with the duo and released some of their material on his own record label.

The group release a large number of albums and side project material, often in limited editions on obscure record labels. Artwork is an important part of every release and this often makes albums from the duo expensive.

Discography

ALBUMS

• s/t CD-r (Opax Records, 1998)
• Landscapes Of An Electric City CD-r (Opax Records/ ZZZ Prod.,1999)
• The Alien cd-r Attack Series! Vol. I - Alien Holland Invasion - CD-r (Opax Records, 2000)
• The Alien cd-r Attack Series! Vol. II - Infinite lights above us - CD-r (Opax Records, 2001)
• The Alien cd-r Attack Series! Vol. III - “...Ascends The Sky" - CD-r (Opax Records, 2001)
• Landscapes Of An Electric City/ Hypnotic Spaces 3-sided LP (Ecstatic Peace!, 2002)
• Out Of The Blue___Into The White 3CD-r set (Opax Records, 2003)
• Il Segno LP / CD (Starlight Furniture Co., 2003/ 2007)
• The Rest Is Silence 2LP (Eclipse Records, 2004)
• The First Flame Of Tomorrow CD-r (Opax Records, 2004)
• Floating In The Void CD-r (Opax Records, 2004)
• Through The Reflex Of The Rain CD (Free Porcupine Society, 2005)
• When The Windmill's Whirl Dies LP (Eclipse Records, 2005)
• Different Shades Of Blue CD-r / LP (U-Sound Archive, 2005 / A Silent Place, 2006)
• Black Shadows From Jupiter LP (Opax Records, 2005)
• Alien Minds C60 cassette (Sloow Tapes, 2005)
• Plutonian Flames 2CD-r (Opax Records, 2005)
• The Cosmological Eye Trilogy 3CD (Last Visible Dog, 2005)
• Astral Key CD-r (Esquilo, 2005)
• Folclore Alieno CD-r (Opax Records, 2006)
• There's A Flame___Sometimes LP (Rococo Records, 2006 / Opax Records, 2008)
• Listen Before Black Falls LP (Root Strata, 2006)
• Cosmic Light Of The Third Millennium CD (Important Records, 2006)
• The Secret Of The Dancing Snow CD (Ikuisuus, 2006)
• "...Ascends The Sky" CD (Rebis/Whitened Sepulchre, 2006)
• Greetings From The Great Void 2LP (Eclipse Records, 2006)
• On Air At Sound Projecting CD-r / LP (Opax Records, 2005 / 2006)
• Leave Me In The Black No-Thing CD (Important Records, 2007)
• Into The White Vortex 1-sided ART-LP (Opax Records, 2007)
• "Speak, alien, SPEAK!" 3 C20 cassette set (Opax Records, 2007)
• Sotto Le Stelle etched ART-LP (Lost Treasures of the Underworld, 2008)
• Alien Blood LP (Opax Records, 2008)
• For the tears of the Land_Prayers from the outer space (split with Praxinoscope) 2LP / 2CD (Important Records, 2009 / Elliptical Noise, 2009)
• Through The Magnifying Glass Of Tomorrow (with Enore Zaffiri) CD+DVD (Atavistic, 2009)
• Mort Aux Vaches CD (Staalplaat, Mort Aux Vaches series, 2009)
• Live @ Sensational Fix (with Michael Morley, Ramona Ponzini, Lee Ranaldo) LP (Starlight Furniture Co., 2009)
• Black Shadows from Jupiter, Vol. I & II 2CD (Elliptical Noise, 2010)
• Photoelectric Season 2CD (Elliptical Noise, 2010)
• My Cat Is An Alien & Bjerga/Iversen LP (Ikuisuus / Gold Soundz, 2010)
• Fragments Suspended In Time LP + CD + DVD (Opax Records, 2010)
• All Is Lost In Translation (with Ramona Ponzini, Lee Ranaldo) CD (Atavistic, 2010)
• Gramofonu = voice of the Universe (with BBNU) LP (Opax Records / Love Nest, 2011)
• What Space Is Made For 3CD Box (Elliptical Noise, 2011)
• Alienology: Selected Works 1998-2008 10CD Box (Elliptical Noise, 2011)

COLLABORATIVE ALBUMS

• Thurston Moore / My Cat Is An Alien - 'From the earth to the Spheres, vol.1' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2004 / Very Friendly/ CARGO, 2004)
• Thuja / My Cat Is An Alien - 'From the earth to the Spheres, vol.2' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2004 / Very Friendly/ CARGO, 2004)
• Jackie-O Motherfucker / My Cat Is An Alien - 'From the earth to the Spheres, vol.3' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2004 / Very Friendly/ CARGO, 2005)
• Jim O'Rourke / My Cat Is An Alien - 'From the earth to the Spheres, vol.4' split ART-LP (Opax Records, 2005)
• Christina Carter & Andrew MacGregor / My Cat Is An Alien - 'From the earth to the Spheres, vol.5' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2005 / Very Friendly/ CARGO, 2005)
• Glands Of External Secretion with Nels Cline / My Cat Is An Alien - 'From the earth to the Spheres, vol.6' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2005 / Very Friendly/ CARGO, 2006)
• Christian Marclay & Okkyung Lee / My Cat Is An Alien - 'From the earth to the Spheres, vol.7' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2006 / A Silent Place, 2006)
• Tony Herrington / My Cat Is An Alien - 'Joint Multiples 04' Box/CD-R/Painting/Polaroid/Painted Photograph (no label, 2006)
• My Cat Is An Alien / Fabio Orsi - 'For Alan Lomax' split CD (A Silent Place, 2006)
• Text Of Light / My Cat Is An Alien - 'Cosmic Debris, Vol.I' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2006 / A Silent Place, 2007)
• Steve Roden / My Cat Is An Alien - 'Cosmic Debris, Vol.II' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2007 / A Silent Place, 2007)
• Keiji Haino / My Cat Is An Alien - 'Cosmic Debris, Vol.III' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2007 / A Silent Place, 2007)
• Mats Gustafsson / My Cat Is An Alien - 'Cosmic Debris, Vol.IV' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2008 / A Silent Place, 2009)
• Loren Connors & Haunted House / My Cat Is An Alien - 'Cosmic Debris, Vol.V' split ART-LP (Opax Records, 2008)
• Family Underground / My Cat Is An Alien split LP (Reverse, 2007)
• Praxinoscope / My Cat Is An Alien - 'For the tears of the Land_Prayers from the outer space' split 2LP / 2CD (Important Records, 2009 / Elliptical Noise, 2009)
• Pestrepeller / My Cat Is An Alien split Picture Disc LP (A Silent Place, 2009)
• My Cat Is An Alien & Enore Zaffiri - 'Through The Magnifying Glass Of Tomorrow' CD+DVD (Atavistic, 2009)
• Michael Morley, My Cat Is An Alien, Ramona Ponzini, Lee Ranaldo - 'Live @ Sensational Fix' LP (Starlight Furniture Co., 2009)
• My Cat Is An Alien & Bjerga/Iversen LP (Ikuisuus / Gold Soundz, 2010)
• My Cat Is An Alien, Ramona Ponzini, Lee Ranaldo - 'All Is Lost In Translation' CD (Atavistic, 2010)
• BBNU & MCIAA - 'Gramofonu = voice of the Universe' LP (Opax Records / Love Nest, 2011)

SINGLES, EPs

• Hypnotic Spaces ep CD-r (Opax Records, 1998)
• Alien Dissolving ep CD-r (Opax Records/ ZZZ Prod., 1999)
• Everything Is Here lathe-cut 7inch (Gold Soundz, 2005)
• Introducing The Cosmic Blues 7inch (Important Records, 2006)
• My Cat Is An Alien / Corsican Paintbrush split 10inch lathe cut (Opax Records/ Foxglove, 2006)
• Different Shades of Tape Box C60 cassette + 7inch + T-shirt (A Silent Place, 2007)
• My Cat Is An Alien / Valerio Cosi - 'Stories From The Vacuum split 7inch (Black Horizon, 2008)
• 8inch Triangular Lathe Cut Record (Pseudoarcana, 2008)
• My Cat Is An Alien / Moonmilk - 'Paseridae I' split 7inch (Sound&Fury, 2009)

COMPILATIONS

• "Alien cats’ attack!" on 'Tracce' CD (Wallace Rec, 1999)
• "World War" (The Cure) on 'La Cattedrale vs the 80’s' CD (White&Black, 1999)
• "I sold an alien to the F.B.I." on 'Related ProZZZect' CD + CD-r (ZZZ Prod.,1999)
• "Hear the voice of the Cosmos" on 'The Tone of the Universe (= The Tone of the Earth)' 2CD (Pseudoarcana, 2005)
• "Alien substratum 1.0/1.2" on 'Time and Relative Dimensions in Space: Long Form Works' CD (Rebis, 2005)
• "Elegy for all the extinct alien species" on 'The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box 6CD (Last Visible Dog, 2005)
• "Astral Enlightenment" on Dream Magazine #6 CD + Magazine (Dream Magazine, 2006)
• "Aliens in the Crowd" on 'Random Sounds Vol.2' CD-r (Indie Workshop, 2006)
• "Alien Beings" on 'Música Salvaje Desde el Infinito Cosmos' CD-r (Buh Records, 2010)
• "The Antigravitational Sense Of Nothingness" on 'Wire Tapper 25' CD + Magazine (The Wire Magazine, 2011)

ROBERTO OPALIO

• Chants From Isolated Ghosts CD-r / lathe-cut ART-LP (Opax Records, 2005)
• Voice With No Guitar/ Guitar With No Voice C20 cassette (Opax Tapes, 2005)
• The Last Night of the Angel of Glass DVD-r + CD-r set (Foxglove, 2006)
• "Transparent moods" on Orange Gold C20 Cassette Comp (Gold Soundz, 2006)
• Whispers of the Last Light DVD-r (Opax Records, 2006)
• The last night of the Angel of Glass, Vol.I & II 2CD / 2 lathe cut ART-LP + DVD (A Silent Place, 2007 / Opax Records, 2009)
• Chants from isolated ghosts CD (Important Records, 2007)
• Whispers of the last Light, part I & II lathe cut ART-LP + DVD (Opax Records, 2007)
• "In the Middle of the Air" (split with Maurizio Opalio) LP (Important Records, 2009)
• My Alien Notes (Escaping the Void?) art book + CD (Opax Press, 2009)
• "Blue Ether" (with Michael Morley, Ramona Ponzini, Lee Ranaldo) in 'Live @ Sensational Fix' LP (Starlight Furniture Co., 2009)
• Liquid Spring (with Maurizio Opalio) CD (Elliptical Noise, 2009)
• The Hexagram on Grace CD (Elliptical Noise, 2010)
• Il Lungo Inverno lathe cut ART LP (Opax Editions, 2011)

MAURIZIO OPALIO

• Way up to Enfer CD-r / lathe cut ART-LP + book (Opax Records, 2006 / 2007)
• "Glacier Sommeiller" (split with Roberto Opalio) LP (Important Records, 2009)
• "Passo Galambra" (with Michael Morley, Ramona Ponzini, Lee Ranaldo) in 'Live @ Sensational Fix' LP (Starlight Furniture Co., 2009)
• Liquid Spring (with Roberto Opalio) CD (Elliptical Noise, 2009)
• Il Lungo Inverno lathe cut ART LP (Opax Editions, 2011)

PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST (Ramona Ponzini, Maurizio Opalio, Roberto Opalio)

• Haru LP / CD (Time-Lag Records, 2005 / 2007)
• "Oceano" on Red Gold C20 Cassette Comp (Gold Soundz, 2006)
• Oounabara 1-sided lathe cut ART-LP + DVD (Opax Records, 2006)
• Oounabara C20 cassette (Opax Records, 2006)
• Fallen Camellias 1-sided 5x10inch lathe cut ART Box (Opax Records, 2008)
• Fallen Camellias CD (A Silent Place, 2008)
• "I lose consciousness" (split with Mykel Boyd) 7inch (Somnimage, 2008)
• "Haru no kuni" on Dream Magazine #9 CD Comp + Magazine (Dream Magazine, 2009)
• Haru No Omoi CD (PSF Japan, 2009)

PRAXINOSCOPE (Roberto Opalio & Ramona Ponzini)

• s/t CD-r / Picture Disc LP (Opax Records, 2005 / A Silent Place, 2006)
• Epocsonixarp LP / CD-r (Opax Records, 2006)
• Untitled #6 1-sided C20 cassette (Opax Tapes, 2008)
• For the tears of the Land_Prayers from the outer space (split with My Cat Is An Alien) 2LP / 2CD (Important Records, 2009 / Elliptical Noise, 2009)

BLACK MAGIC DISCO (Maurizio & Roberto Opalio, Ramona Ponzini, Tom Greenwood)

• s/t CD / 2LP (Important Records, 2007 / A Silent Place, 2007)

MUSIC FOR PHANTOMS (Maurizio & Roberto Opalio)

• I - CD-r + DVD (Opax Records, 2007)
• I - lathe cut ART-LP (Opax Editions, 2010)
• II - lathe cut ART-LP (Opax Editions, 2010)

ONE LONELY ALIEN CAT (Roberto Opalio)

• In The Blue Alien Dim Light ART CD-r (Opax Records, 1999)

ORANGE CAR CRASH (My Cat Is An Alien, Amour en Stéréophonie, Viggiu Vortex)

• Lights in the Space Room LP (Opax Records, 2002)

References

1. ^ "The Prague Post Online: Tempo: International electro-pop stars headline Stimul Fest". www.praguepost.com. http://www.praguepost.com/articles/2007/10/03/international-electro-pop-stars-headline-stimul-fest.php. Retrieved 2008-06-09. 

External links

• Official MCIAA biog
• Part MCIAA discog