My Cat is an Alien
The Cosmological Eye Trilogy
My Cat is an Alien
The Cosmological Eye Trilogy
Three discs, each nearly 70 minutes long.
Disc 1: The Cosmological Eye Introduction (14.01), Into the Sleeping Beauty
galaxy (55.19)
Disc 2: The Helix Nebula (7.59), Into the Sombrero galaxy (40.03), The Trifid
Nebula (21.33)
Disc 3: Into the Whirlpool galaxy (33.03), The Orion nebula (34.52)
"Refreshing Improv that stems from a tradition of space rock, psychedelic
jamming and the lo-fi explorations of groups like The Dead C. The music of the
Turin based Opalio brothers has an untutored, instinctive charm that has been
championed in the past by Sonic Youth and Blonde Redhead. These jams...are
far looser and dreamier than the work of their mentors. [these] pieces describe
patient , slow moving parabolas, rising from amplifier hiss and hum, to more
urgent dialogues of percussions and guitar feedback, finally following long arcs
into silence. However, there’s tension in [this album], the distant yet edgy
sound of reverberating, violent chaos, which prevents them from sinking into
stoned tedium. ...a demonstration of their ragged prowess."
--Keith Molinč, May 2004, The Wire magazine (Cosmological Eye part 2)
"MCIAA's musical world is
populated by huge expanses of sound, broad minimalist soundscapes woven together
with all sorts of guitars: electric alien guitar, astral alien guitar, electric
nebulae guitar drone, as well as mini-xylophone, space toys, whirlpool, toy mic,
percussion, metal sticks, cosmic cymbals, helix cymbals, Plutonian percussions
and of course astral percussions. All recorded live with no overdubs, these
spaced out sonic explorations are pretty amazing, from clattery, gritty
industrialism, with scraping percussion and distorted vocals, to delicate barely
there expanses of swoosh and waver, with distant foghorn-like moans, minimal
drones, strange machine like whirs, almost inaudible chimes and melodies, to
tribal space rituals with swirling blooping bleeping synths slipping and sliding
around manic percussion, to strange alien sounding free jazz noise hybrids,
shuffling cymbals, lots of dubbed out reverb, peals of feedback, and little bits
of clatter and clink suspended in fields of looped fuzz and repeating cycles of
hum and drone.
A completely overwhelmingly brilliant assemblage of outer space free jazz drone
rock minimalism that will most definitely hit the spot for all you
free-ambient-noise-drone cd-r hounds, but will probably also appeal to fans of
Acid Mothers Temple style space rock, twentieth century minimalism, "new weird
America" (Italy?), and all stops in between."
--Aquarius Records