Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
*BONUS TRACK* the entire, uncut version of 'MCIAA XX Anniversary' (total running time 64:03)
Includes 28-page Art Book in PDF format.
Exclusive access to the full concert footage in HD quality.
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€14EUR or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
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"Clear Hypno" & "Black Deluxe" Color Double Vinyl 3-Sided LP.
Full-color jacket with 28-page Art Book mounted on cover.
Includes QR codes to free download & streaming of full concert video footage, full album and PDF artbook.
Features exclusive art works by Roberto Opalio and Lee Ranaldo, plus pictures of the live performance. Cover artwork and design by MCIAA.
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Includes unlimited streaming of MCIAA XX Anniversary
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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)
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.
This is a label set up by true music lovers with the aim to spread and support the arcane and visionary music universe created by the unique genius of MY CAT IS AN ALIEN.
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