Le Voci del Buio
(Elliptical Noise - ALPHAOMEGA6545) CDR $12.00
Document of a late-night session by Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Ramona Ponzini (Praxinoscope, Painting Petals On Planet Ghost), featuring an obscure ensemble of radical folk musicians of the Western Alps. Classical and acoustic guitars, early 1800s homemade wooden string instruments from the rural tradition of the region. Cardboard jacket with past-on artwork. Professionally duplicated in Germany.
Photoelectric Season
(Elliptical Noise - ALPHAOMEGA6549-50) 2xCDR $16.00
During six months of physical and psychic isolation while on mystic retreat in a remote region of the Western Alps, the Opalio Brothers listened to Giacinto Scelsi, Erik Satie and Maki Asakawa and read Strindberg and Lautréamont. Created with electric and acoustic guitars, vocals, mini-keyboard, alientronix, and ancient zither, Photoelectric Season is a milestone in MCIAA's innovative and mysterious discography: their new “cosmic tones for mental therapy.” Gatefold cardboard jacket with tape binding and paste-on artwork, with insert. Professionally duplicated in Germany.
Black Shadows from Jupiter, Vol. I & II
(Elliptical Noise - ALPHAOMEGA6547-48) 2xCDR $16.00
Volume I was issued in 2005 by the Opalio brothers' Opax Records imprint in “Monalien Fidelity,” a reference / tribute to ESP's monaural sound recordings. Available in stereo for the first time, Volume I’s two long tracks are the very first music recorded by MCIAA after they moved to the new recording space located in the Western Alps, and contain Roberto Opalio's first experiments in wordless vocals. Five years later, in October 2009, they recorded Volume II, almost one hour of new material representing a unique journey in the darkest secrets of the S-System. Gatefold cardboard jacket with tape binding and paste-on artwork, with insert. Professionally duplicated in Germany.
For the Tears of the Land Prayers from the Outer Space - Vol.1
(Elliptical Noise - ALPHAOMEGA6543) CDR $12.00
The first of an ambitious two-part series by the cosmic brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, kicking off with an acoustic blues performed by Roberto, dedicated to the pioneers of the American primitive music and in particular to the spirit of Charley Patton. "It’s magical, mysterious and dreamy," says Indieworkshop, "19 million light years worth of dreams." Cardboard jacket with past-on artwork. Professionally duplicated in Germany.
The Hexagram on Grace
(Elliptical Noise - ALPHAOMEGA6551) CDR $12.00
The third solo album by Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien, Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Praxinoscope) was made during the same period of self-imposed isolation in the Western Alps that brought to life MCIAA's Photoelectric Season. Inspired by the mystic aura of the surrounding nature, he focuses on his peculiar wordless vocalizations, and uses only a mini-keyboard and prepared alientronics as instruments (brother Maurizio supplies acoustic guitar at the beginning of “Like An Empty Glass”). Sublime abstract expressionism around the heliocentricity of his voice. Cardboard jacket with paste-on artwork, with insert. Professionally duplicated in Germany.
ROBERTO OPALIO / MAURIZIO OPALIO
Liquid Spring
(Elliptical Noise - ALPHAOMEGA6546) CDR $12.00
Amazing work of quiet contemplation played on acoustic and classical guitars by the My Cat Is An Alien void-busters, with Roberto's disembodied vocals levitating high above like a cosmic breath. Cardboard jacket with past-on artwork. Professionally duplicated in Germany.
For the Tears of the Land Prayers from the Outer Space - Vol.2
(Elliptical Noise - ALPHAOMEGA6544) CDR $12.00
The second in My Cat Is An Alien's new series, performed by Roberto Opalio and long time collaborator Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petal on Planet Ghost, Black Magic Disco, Z'ev), concluding with a piece of total cosmic blast... and of archaic transcendence. Cardboard jacket with past-on artwork. Professionally duplicated in Germany.