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"RE​-​SI​-​STEN​-​ZA​!​"

by My Cat Is An Alien

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    Gold colored vinyl LP. Brand new cover artwork by Roberto Opalio pasted on white cardboard jacket. Includes 2 double-sided A4 textured ivory paper inserts with full credits, poem lyrics, black&white old photographic reproductions and a foreword by Roberto Opalio. Design by MCIAA. Plus full-album Digital Download collector's card.

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    Art Edition of 25 exemplars. Original mixed media artwork (Indian ink and stamps) on cover by Roberto Opalio, signed. Handnumbered 1/25. Roberto and Maurizio Opalio's signatures plus certification sticker on back. Includes textured ivory paper inserts.
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    Private edition in special "metallic gold" color vinyl LP!!! Limited edition of 300, completely handcrafted by MCIAA.
    Tri-fold sleeve in brown tobacco, textured fine art cardboard, with 12”x16” folded cover/insert. Includes antique map replica poster + 3 inserts on parchment paper with full credits, photographs, a foreword by Roberto Opalio, and a new MCIAA's portrait. Plus full-album DL collector's card.

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    Includes the "Gold Wax" color vinyl edition of "RE-SI-STEN-ZA!" LP + an extra twin vinyl ART-OBJECT LP featuring a proper original acrylic painting of Roberto Opalio's signature "Alien Eye" with circular handwritten title on Side B! Side A of the extra LP is perfectly playable, to guarantee infinite listening! The 2 LPs are housed in a triple 12" panel heavy cardboard z-fold sleeve, designed and handmade by MCIAA! Handnumbered and signed.

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    2018 REISSUE - NEW PACKAGING! Private edition in "metallic gold" color vinyl LP!!! Design by MCIAA.
    Black cardboard jacket with 11"x8" glossy, paste-on cover artwork. Includes 2 double-sided inserts with poem lyrics, photographs, foreword by Roberto Opalio, MCIAA's portrait, full credits. Plus full-album DL card.

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*2023 reissue* *MCIAA 25th anniversary limited edition of 200 copies*

This new 2023 special reissue of My Cat Is An Alien’s landmark album "RE-SI-STEN-ZA!" is intended to open the brotherly duo’s 25th anniversary celebrations. Originally released in 2016, the work well represents the summa of MCIAA's music activity, from their early space toys-era to the latest self-made electronics and string instruments outputs. Featuring two long compositions, the album reaches 50 minutes of pure “Spiritual Noise”—the way Maurizio and Roberto Opalio have baptized their very own music. "RE-SI-STEN-ZA!" is the ideal bridge for the complete communion between noise and silence, a shamanic voyage from Alpha to Omega… and beyond.

"Metallic Gold Wax" private edition limited to 200 copies only, featuring a brand new cover artwork by Roberto Opalio. Includes 2 double-page A4 inserts with full credits, lyrics, black&white old photographic reproductions and a foreword by Roberto Opalio. Entirely designed by MCIAA. Comes with full-album Digital Download collector's card.

REVIEWS:

"The theme of resistance is one that has arguably shaped MCIAA’s entire career, as there are few other artists who have been so unwaveringly challenging and iconoclastic for as long as the Opalios. The average My Cat Is An Alien album has absolute zero common ground with anything happening in the mundane world of the masses, as Maurizio and Roberto seem to exclusively look to the stars or search inwardly for their inspirations instead.
[...] Everyone already indoctrinated into My Cat Is An Alien’s singular vision already knows that this is an essential release, but it may very well be the perfect entry point for the curious as well..” – Anthony D’Amico / BRAINWASHED

“One of the pair’s bolder and more free-spirited outings” – THE WIRE

“RE-SI-STEN-ZA!” is a super limited two-track juggernaut […] The title track finds MCIAA at the height of their wiring and warping powers, an absolute wig flipped tour de force that sees them morphing through elements of noise, musique concrete, stoner earthbeat and cosmic spiritualism to craft out a truly immense and often brutal cranium collapsing palette of psychotropic goo which across 25 minutes of head tripping groove shapeshifts with such out there aplomb that you literally fear your mind might fry.” – Mark Barton (THE SUNDAY EXPERIENCE)

“Opalio brothers have great array of means at their disposal - both in technical sense and in terms of their creative imagination which has no limits - it bears the resemblance of a creative spirit that the last decade of XXth century was made of and brought inventive combinations - a cross between the border. This beautifully published vinyl is a proof to that.” – FELTHATREVIEWS

“La resistenza di cui al titolo non è solamente “quella” stagione storica; la resistenza per i MCIAA ha un significato esistenziale e poetico, come essi stessi scrivono. E si sente. Un disco che merita.” – KATHODIK

credits

released January 16, 2018

Side A - "RE-SI-STEN-ZA!"
MAURIZIO OPALIO – electric guitar, pedal effects, wire brushes drumsticks, floor toms, snare drums, cymbals, ball chains, bells, real-time loops and effects on percussion
ROBERTO OPALIO – recitation, wordless vocalizations, toy microphone, prepared electric guitar, space toys, bells, iron chains, cymbals, floor toms, modified electronic devices, alientronics
NOTE: the nature of the piece requires a listening at the highest volume possible.

Side B - 'Let Their Voices Speak Through The Wind'
MAURIZIO OPALIO – electric guitar, pedal effects
ROBERTO OPALIO – wordless vocalizations, mini-keyboard, pedal effects, alientronics
NOTE: the nature of the piece requires a listening at a medium-low volume level.

Instantaneous compositions performed, recorded and mixed by My Cat Is An Alien in their secret Alien Zone HQs in Western Alps.
Mastering by Fabrizio Ronco. Produced by MCIAA.

"RE-SI-STEN-ZA!" is a poem by Roberto Opalio.
Titles by Roberto Opalio (as always).
Artwork and layout by MCIAA.
Cover photograph taken in Western Alps; author unknown, year unknown.

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First release November 30, 2016.

Copyright © 2016-2018 My Cat Is An Alien. All rights reserved.
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