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Music For Phantoms (IV)

by My Cat Is An Alien

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  • Art Edition lathe cut LP Ltd. 19
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    Acrylic painting intervention + installed Polaroid Duochrome film + handwritings on cover by Roberto Opalio. Includes insert. Signed and hand-numbered by the artists.
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    With this Art Edition MCIAA aim to sublimate the essence (both audio and visual) of the analog experience as poetic concept.
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The global madness which is ravaging this "new" world seems to call out loud the need for the strong poetics behind My Cat Is An Alien’s peculiar project called MUSIC FOR PHANTOMS, whose last release dates back to 12 years ago as a triple box set published by Elliptical Noise Records.

MUSIC FOR PHANTOMS (IV) has been recorded in the middle of the night at MCIAA’s HQ in the Western Alps with only 2 glockenspiels, wordless vocals and a single condenser microphone to capture the essence of the screaming silence. The instantaneously composed music manifests itself as a sparkling distillate of pure poetry in an ocean of iridescent silence and estranging analog morphologies.

In the deepest heart of the night, in those hours that belong to the dimension inhabited by the spirits, in the same instants sealed by a silence so clear that it becomes deafening noise, every single note of the glockenspiels whispers the words of the solitary souls that emerge from the darkness like traces of shooting stars. In this perspective, MCIAA immortalized on Polaroid Duochrome films yellow dots of their light installation dragged on the snowy mantle under the night sky.

MUSIC FOR PHANTOMS is the symbol of a urgent, poetic vision: a “light” that does not yet intend to fade away.

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"music for phantoms is the thin curtain which permeates your neurons_music for phantoms is the numbness of the fog that holds you with its silver fluxes_music for phantoms is the whisper of the promised first snow_music for phantoms is the atonal sing-song of the branches soaked with memory reverbered by the wind_music for phantoms is the view through the praxinoscope of the Great Void_music for phantoms is the murmur of the golden leaves stripped by the agony of the autumn sun_music for phantoms is the pure vivid white light that exists as such and does not mind to show its necessity to the world_music for phantoms is everything that shines beyond space and time_music for phantoms is the shadow of the instant just sacrified in its becoming_music for phantoms is the consciousness of the senselessness of what comes afterwards_music for phantoms is the limbo between this and the other dimension_music for phantoms is the blinding darkness coming from a dying flame and a new light not yet discernible on an increasingly undefined horizon" - Roberto Opalio (Music For Phantoms manifesto, 2007)

credits

released March 4, 2022

ALBUM CREDITS:

Maurizio Opalio – glockenspiel
Roberto Opalio – glockenspiel, wordless vocalizations

Instantaneous compositions performed, recorded and mixed by MCIAA at their secret Alien Zone studio in Western Alps. Recorded in the middle of the night using a single condenser microphone, in the tradition of Music For Phantoms’ aesthetics.
Mastering by Fabrizio Ronco.
Produced by My Cat Is An Alien in multi-dimensional, full dynamics-frequency spectrum "STEREOALIEN FIDELITY".

Cover art: Polaroid Duochrome film by Roberto Opalio, taken from a light installation by MCIAA.
Music For Phantoms manifesto by Roberto Opalio, 2007.

All images and photographs courtesy MCIAA Archives.

All music © 2022 My Cat Is An Alien. All rights reserved.
© & ℗ 2022 Opax Records (OPX 048). All rights reserved.

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