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My Cat Is an Alien (MCIAA) is the name of the Italian musical duo and outsider audiovisual artists consisting of brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, formed in Torino, Italy, in late 1997. They release avant garde /experimental music in a peculiar form of improvisation that MCIAA themselves define 'instantaneous composition'.〔("My Cat Is An Alien: Biography" ) My Cat Is An Alien official bio. Retrieved February 16, 2012〕 MCIAA's first live show was supporting Sonic Youth in 1998. Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth is a fan and has collaborated with the duo and released some of their material on his own Ecstatic Peace! record label. Thurston Moore and Byron Coley wrote on Arthur Magazine, MCIAA's work range over many artistic activities: musical performance, films and videos, audiovisual installations, poetry, drawing, photography, painting. In September 2011, My Cat Is An Alien are the cover feature in The Wire magazine.〔("The Wire, issue 331: My Cat Is An Alien" ) ''The Wire'', issue 331 (Sept 2011). Retrieved February 16, 2012〕 == Releases == My Cat Is An Alien are one of the most prolific groups in the international experimental music scene, with more than 100 records in their first 13 years of activity. Tony Herrington, editor-in-chief & publisher of The Wire, characterizes the duo as The group has a large number of albums and side project material which is widely available on CDs, LPs and digital downloads released by well-known labels such as Atavistic (USA), Important (USA), Very Friendly/ Cargo (UK), P.S.F. (Japan), Elliptical Noise (CAN) among many others. All MCIAA's album covers come from paintings, drawings and photographs by Roberto Opalio. Since artwork is a basic aspect of every record, MCIAA often release limited art edition vinyls, lathe cuts, cassettes, CD-Rs and DVD-Rs on their own Opax Records imprint, and other independent record labels. In their early years, MCIAA made all recordings in the 'Space Room', the duo's first studio, located in an abandoned factory zone to the north of Torino city centre. As expression of their DIY aesthetics they self-released many limited CD-Rs during that period. MCIAA's international debut album ''Landscapes Of An Electric City/ Hypnotic Spaces'' 3-sided LP on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace! label in 2002 earned high marks from Dusted Magazine (''volcanic, both in sound quality and seeping magnitude…floating, impressionistic noise."'' 〔Tom Roberts, "Maneuvering an Architectural Valentine", ''Dusted'', March 13, 2003. ("Landascapes Of An Electric City/ Hypnotic Spaces" review ). Retrieved February 16, 2012〕 ) and Bananafish Magazine, and a special mention on the book ''Post Rock'' (Giunti).〔Eddy Cilia e Stefano I. Bianchi, ''Post Rock e oltre. Introduzione alle musiche del 2000'', Giunti, 1999, pg.133. Retrieved February 16, 2012〕 From 2004 MCIAA put out three consecutive vinyl releases on Eclipse Records—''The Rest Is Silence'' (2004), ''When The Windmill's Whirl Dies'' (2005), and ''Greetings From The Great Void'' (2006)— later intended as a trilogy. Another concept album collecting some of their most remarkable ambient, instrumental works, ''The Cosmological Eye Trilogy'', was published as a 3 CD set on Last Visible Dog Records and awarded as "BEST 2005 ANTHOLOGY" by Foxy Digitalis, hereby introduced by editor-in-chief Brad Rose: After other key works such as ''Il Segno'' (Starlight Furniture Co., 2003), and ''Through The Reflex Of The Rain'' (Free Porcupine Society, 2005), in 2005 Important Records started releasing some albums that were met with praise by critics and contemporaries alike—''Cosmic Light Of The Third Millennium'' (2005), ''Leave Me In The Black No-Thing'' (2007), ''For The Tears Of The Land_Prayers From The Outer Space'' (2009), Roberto Opalio's soloist debut ''Chants From Isolated Ghosts'' (2007), and an untitled limited split vinyl LP of solo works by the two brothers (2009)— claimed Ed Pinsent, editor & publisher of The Sound Projector Magazine.〔Ed Pinsent, "Landscapes Of An Electric City/ Hypnotic Spaces" review, ''The Sound Projector'', issue 11 (March 2003), www.thesoundprojector.com, retrieved February 16, 2012〕 ''Different Shades Of Blue'', published by defunct label A Silent Place in 2006, has been awarded album of 2005 in the Top 30 chart "THE BEST OF AMBIENT WORKS 1978-2008" by the prestigious Studio Voice multi-media magazine 〔Itaru Mita, "Ambient Chillout", ''Studio Voice'', issue No. 8, Vol.392 (Aug 2008), (studiovoice.jp ). Retrieved February 16, 2012〕 and book publications in Japan.〔Itaru Mita, "THIRD DECADE 1998-2009: 2005_MY CAT IS AN ALIEN", ''Ambient Music 1969-2009'', Studio Voice Books / INFAS Books (2009), pg.213-216, ISBN 978-4-900785-88-5. Retrieved February 16, 2012〕 In 2005 the Opalio brothers moved their recording studio from Torino to a remote and secret location in the Western Alps they call 'Alien Zone', where Roberto introduced his wordless vocalizations as a leading instrument. In this regard English writer Ken Hollings, author of MCIAA cover article in The Wire, states: From the vastness of the Alpine territory, the brothers released new key works, including ''Black Shadows From Jupiter, Vol.I & II'' (Opax Records, 2005 / Elliptical Noise, 2009), ''Photoelectric Season'' (Elliptical Noise, 2010), and ''Fragments Suspended In Time'' (Opax Records, 2010). Starting from 2009, most of their new albums are published by their devoted Canadian label Elliptical Noise Records, that in 2011 put out the triple CD set ''What Space Is Made For'', whose track ''The Antigravitational Sense Of Nothingness'' is featured in Wire Tapper 25 CD Compilation accompanying The Wire magazine No. 326 (April 2011).〔("The Wire Tapper 25 CD" ) ''The Wire'', issue 326 (April 2011). Retrieved February 16, 2012〕 In 2008 My Cat Is An Alien also signed for Atavistic Worldwide. On September 14, 2011 My Cat Is An Alien's first thirteen years of activity were celebrated with ''ALIENOLOGY: Selected Works 1998-2008'', a ten disc box retrospective published by Elliptical Noise.〔("ALIENOLOGY: Selected Works 1998-2008" ). Retrieved February 16, 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「My Cat Is an Alien」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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