Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

My Cat Is An Alien
Folclore Alieno

Opax 018

CD-R
£8.99


New My Cat Is An Alien album rolls back the usual primitive sci-fi glitz in favour of a more earthy, hand woven style with both brothers on acoustic guitar and Roberto doubling on vocals and cymbal. Also includes a solo Roberto track. The use of pregnant space and the way that they balance full-articulated single notes with a melt of muzzy tones sounds a little like Tetuzi Akyiama’s more liminal form but the addition of a metronomic pulse gives it a nice Reichian repeato dynamic. And this time we ain’t taking orgones. Hand-numbered edition of 150 copies in individually painted wraparound card sleeves.

Roberto Opalio
Voice With No Guitar/Guitar With No Voice

Opax TP-01

Cassette
£4.99


“Dedicated to the groundnoise of the fuckin’ great analog cassette”, this solo cassette from My Cat Is An Alien’s Roberto Opalio is the first in a projected series and features a side of distressed solo vocal murk that crosses distraught wordless codes with loops of desiccated tongue and a side of solo guitar that sounds like a sky-full of cathedral organs. Limited hand-numbered edition of 69 copies tied-up in painted art paper with insert.

Roberto Opalio
Whispers Of The Last Light

Opax OPX-020V

DVD-R
£11.99


New short film by Roberto Opalio that casts a warped eye deep into the void of the sky with the lens occasionally obscured by various out-of-phase techniques. Heavy analogue electronic soundtrack from Roberto too. In individually-decorated art paper sleeves with insert, hand-numbered edition of 100.

My Cat Is An Alien/Text Of Light
Cosmic Debris Series Volume One

Opax OPX-LP08

Art Edition LP
£69.99


First instalment in My Cat Is An Alien's second series of deluxe art edition split LPs issued in runs of only 100 copies comes with an original painting on a 12" x 12" wooden board featuring an original Polaroid by Roberto Opalio. Sonics bundle a beautiful spume of fizzing electro-hypnosis from the Opalio brothers with a 'dual mono' live recording (two different recordings of the same gig run through one speaker each) from Text Of Light, featuring the line-up of Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht, Ulrich Krieger, DJ Olive and Tim Barnes. Looks to be the best MCIAA series yet, with future volumes including sides from Keiji Haino and Loren Mazzacane's Haunted House. But you better move it.

Painting Petals On Planet Ghost
Oounabara

Opax OPX-024A

Lathe LP + DVD
£49.99


1-sided 12" lathe + DVD-R hand-cut by Peter King in New Zealand and pressed in a hand-numbered edition of only 50 copies, with an original gold-ink drawing by Ramona Ponzini on the flip and a silent short film by Roberto Opalio on the DVD, inspired by the music and art, playable together or separately. "This 15 minutes song is the key-work follow up to their acclaimed debut album on Time-Lag Records. Here Roberto and Maurizio Opalio, aka My Cat Is An Alien, act in the darkness of the outer space, while Ramona Ponzini lights up the autumnal air with her enchanting voice, along with her Japanese percussions and wind chimes; by reitering one only Japanese word (whose meaning is 'Ocean'), she creates a universe of pure magic. Radical minimalism, folk, psychedelia are the main terms that rule this mysterious chant and intimate prayer; but what you'll find here is extremely far from any unuseful relation with what you already know, representing 'Oounabara' a totally still unknown dimension of what the music of today should be: a window on Tomorrow.” – Opax.

Praxinoscope
Epocsonixarp

Opax OPX-023

CD-R
£12.99


\Second album from the duo of My Cat Is An Alien's Roberto Opalio and Ramona Ponzini of Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, special private press edition of only 130 numbered copies, with heavy textured cardboard sleeve, and sticker on cover. "This work is even more lyrical and ecstatic than the debut; here Roberto's use of a mini-keyboard and astral effects collides with Ramona's hypnotic use of several handmade wood percussions and her Japanese wind chimes and bells, creating such an infinite and intimate 'space' so that you cannot but loose yourself inside. A whirlpool of Roberto's whispered wordless vocals will live till the evening dies, and the black of the night will come to surround everything. As the duo asks, 'Play it in the dark'." - Opax.

My Cat Is An Alien
Into The White Vortex

Opax 021A

One-Sided Art Edition LP
£37.99


A private press edition of 110 copies, this is a one-sided LP that features the duo of Maurizio and Roberto Opalio on electric guitars, xylophone, percussion and toys in a live sÇance recorded in 2007 while over on the flip there is a original acrylic painting direct onto the vinyl by Robert Opalio.

My Cat Is An Alien/Steve Roden
Cosmic Debris Series Volume Two

Opax OPXLP-9

Art Edition LP
£69.99


Latest instalment in MCIAA's second run of limited, deluxe art edition LPs features one side from visual/sound artist Steve Roden using E-bowed guitar and field recordings. The flip features Roberto and Maurizio Opalio on zoned hypno-drones joined by Ramona Ponzini on Japanese bells. Numbered edition of 100 copies with original board-mounted painting and Polaroid art by Roberto Opalio.