My Cat Is An Alien is the name of an Italian

Italy

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 musical duo consisting of brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio from Torino in Italy

Italy

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. They release avant garde /experimental music

Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

 and are often classified as improv

Musical improvisation

Musical improvisation is the creative activity of immediate musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians...

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MCIAA's first live show was supporting Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

 in 1998. Thurston Moore

Thurston Moore

Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...

 from Sonic Youth is a fan and has collaborated with the duo and released some of their material on his own record label.

The group release a large number of albums and side project material, often in limited editions on obscure record labels. Artwork is an important part of every release and this often makes albums from the duo expensive.

Discography

ALBUMS

• s/t CD-r (Opax Records, 1998)
• Landscapes Of An Electric City CD-r (Opax Records/ ZZZ Prod.,1999)
• The Alien cd-r Attack Series! Vol. I - Alien Holland Invasion - CD-r (Opax Records, 2000)
• The Alien cd-r Attack Series! Vol. II - Infinite lights above us - CD-r (Opax Records, 2001)
• The Alien cd-r Attack Series! Vol. III - “...Ascends The Sky" - CD-r (Opax Records, 2001)
• Landscapes Of An Electric City/ Hypnotic Spaces 3-sided LP (Ecstatic Peace!, 2002)
• Out Of The Blue___Into The White 3CD-r set (Opax Records, 2003)
• Il Segno LP / CD (Starlight Furniture Co., 2003/ 2007)
• The Rest Is Silence 2LP (Eclipse Records, 2004)
• The First Flame Of Tomorrow CD-r (Opax Records, 2004)
• Floating In The Void CD-r (Opax Records, 2004)
• Through The Reflex Of The Rain CD (Free Porcupine Society, 2005)
• When The Windmill's Whirl Dies LP (Eclipse Records, 2005)
• Different Shades Of Blue CD-r / LP (U-Sound Archive, 2005 / A Silent Place, 2006)
• Black Shadows From Jupiter LP (Opax Records, 2005)
• Alien Minds C60 cassette (Sloow Tapes, 2005)
• Plutonian Flames 2CD-r (Opax Records, 2005)
• The Cosmological Eye Trilogy 3CD (Last Visible Dog, 2005)
• Astral Key CD-r (Esquilo, 2005)
• Folclore Alieno CD-r (Opax Records, 2006)
• There's A Flame___Sometimes LP (Rococo Records, 2006 / Opax Records, 2008)
• Listen Before Black Falls LP (Root Strata, 2006)
• Cosmic Light Of The Third Millennium CD (Important Records, 2006)
• The Secret Of The Dancing Snow CD (Ikuisuus, 2006)
• "...Ascends The Sky" CD (Rebis/Whitened Sepulchre, 2006)
• Greetings From The Great Void 2LP (Eclipse Records, 2006)
• On Air At Sound Projecting CD-r / LP (Opax Records, 2005 / 2006)
• Leave Me In The Black No-Thing CD (Important Records, 2007)
• Into The White Vortex 1-sided ART-LP (Opax Records, 2007)
• "Speak, alien, SPEAK!" 3 C20 cassette set (Opax Records, 2007)
• Sotto Le Stelle etched ART-LP (Lost Treasures of the Underworld, 2008)
• Alien Blood LP (Opax Records, 2008)
• For the tears of the Land_Prayers from the outer space (split with Praxinoscope) 2LP / 2CD (Important Records, 2009 / Elliptical Noise, 2009)
• Through The Magnifying Glass Of Tomorrow (with Enore Zaffiri) CD+DVD (Atavistic, 2009)
• Mort Aux Vaches CD (Staalplaat, Mort Aux Vaches series, 2009)
• Live @ Sensational Fix (with Michael Morley, Ramona Ponzini, Lee Ranaldo) LP (Starlight Furniture Co., 2009)
• Black Shadows from Jupiter, Vol. I & II 2CD (Elliptical Noise, 2010)
• Photoelectric Season 2CD (Elliptical Noise, 2010)
• My Cat Is An Alien & Bjerga/Iversen LP (Ikuisuus / Gold Soundz, 2010)
• Fragments Suspended In Time LP + CD + DVD (Opax Records, 2010)
• All Is Lost In Translation (with Ramona Ponzini, Lee Ranaldo) CD (Atavistic, 2010)
• Gramofonu = voice of the Universe (with BBNU) LP (Opax Records / Love Nest, 2011)
• What Space Is Made For 3CD Box (Elliptical Noise, 2011)
• Alienology: Selected Works 1998-2008 10CD Box (Elliptical Noise, 2011)

COLLABORATIVE ALBUMS

• Thurston Moore
  Thurston Moore
  Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...
  
   / My Cat Is An Alien - 'From the earth to the Spheres, vol.1' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2004 / Very Friendly/ CARGO, 2004)
• Thuja / My Cat Is An Alien - 'From the earth to the Spheres, vol.2' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2004 / Very Friendly/ CARGO, 2004)
• Jackie-O Motherfucker
  Jackie-O Motherfucker
  Jackie-O Motherfucker is an American experimental music group that formed in Portland, Oregon in 1994.-Biography:Jackie-O Motherfucker began as a duo consisting of multi-instrumentalist Tom Greenwood and saxophonist Nester Bucket. The group has had more than forty members drawn from the U.S....
  
   / My Cat Is An Alien - 'From the earth to the Spheres, vol.3' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2004 / Very Friendly/ CARGO, 2005)
• Jim O'Rourke / My Cat Is An Alien - 'From the earth to the Spheres, vol.4' split ART-LP (Opax Records, 2005)
• Christina Carter & Andrew MacGregor / My Cat Is An Alien - 'From the earth to the Spheres, vol.5' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2005 / Very Friendly/ CARGO, 2005)
• Glands Of External Secretion with Nels Cline / My Cat Is An Alien - 'From the earth to the Spheres, vol.6' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2005 / Very Friendly/ CARGO, 2006)
• Christian Marclay
  Christian Marclay
  Christian Marclay is a Swiss-American visual artist and composer.Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film...
  
   & Okkyung Lee / My Cat Is An Alien - 'From the earth to the Spheres, vol.7' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2006 / A Silent Place, 2006)
• Tony Herrington / My Cat Is An Alien - 'Joint Multiples 04' Box/CD-R/Painting/Polaroid/Painted Photograph (no label, 2006)
• My Cat Is An Alien / Fabio Orsi - 'For Alan Lomax
  Alan Lomax
  Alan Lomax was an American folklorist and ethnomusicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain.In his later career, Lomax advanced his theories of...
  
  ' split CD (A Silent Place, 2006)
• Text Of Light / My Cat Is An Alien - 'Cosmic Debris, Vol.I' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2006 / A Silent Place, 2007)
• Steve Roden
  Steve Roden
  Steve Roden is an American sound and visual artist. Best known for pioneering the lowercase style of music, where quiet sounds are amplified amid long stretches of silence, his huge discography includes Forms of Paper, which was commissioned by the Los Angeles public library.-External links:* * at...
  
   / My Cat Is An Alien - 'Cosmic Debris, Vol.II' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2007 / A Silent Place, 2007)
• Keiji Haino
  Keiji Haino
  Keiji Haino born May 3, 1952 in Chiba, Japan, and currently residing in Tokyo, is a Japanese musician whose work has included rock, free improvisation, noise, singer-songwriter, solo percussion, psychedelic, minimalism and drone styles...
  
   / My Cat Is An Alien - 'Cosmic Debris, Vol.III' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2007 / A Silent Place, 2007)
• Mats Gustafsson
  Mats Gustafsson
  Mats Olof Gustafsson is a Swedish saxophone player and a stalwart on the Scandinavian free jazz scene. He is known for his tonal belligerence and intensity when improvising....
  
   / My Cat Is An Alien - 'Cosmic Debris, Vol.IV' split ART-LP / CD (Opax Records, 2008 / A Silent Place, 2009)
• Loren Connors & Haunted House / My Cat Is An Alien - 'Cosmic Debris, Vol.V' split ART-LP (Opax Records, 2008)
• Family Underground / My Cat Is An Alien split LP (Reverse, 2007)
• Praxinoscope
  Praxinoscope
  The praxinoscope was an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder...
  
   / My Cat Is An Alien - 'For the tears of the Land_Prayers from the outer space' split 2LP / 2CD (Important Records, 2009 / Elliptical Noise, 2009)
• Pestrepeller / My Cat Is An Alien split Picture Disc LP (A Silent Place, 2009)
• My Cat Is An Alien & Enore Zaffiri - 'Through The Magnifying Glass Of Tomorrow' CD+DVD (Atavistic, 2009)
• Michael Morley, My Cat Is An Alien, Ramona Ponzini, Lee Ranaldo
  Lee Ranaldo
  Lee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...
  
   - 'Live @ Sensational Fix' LP (Starlight Furniture Co., 2009)
• My Cat Is An Alien & Bjerga/Iversen LP (Ikuisuus / Gold Soundz, 2010)
• My Cat Is An Alien, Ramona Ponzini, Lee Ranaldo
  Lee Ranaldo
  Lee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...
  
   - 'All Is Lost In Translation' CD (Atavistic, 2010)
• BBNU & MCIAA - 'Gramofonu = voice of the Universe' LP (Opax Records / Love Nest, 2011)

SINGLES, EPs

• Hypnotic Spaces ep CD-r (Opax Records, 1998)
• Alien Dissolving ep CD-r (Opax Records/ ZZZ Prod., 1999)
• Everything Is Here lathe-cut 7inch (Gold Soundz, 2005)
• Introducing The Cosmic Blues 7inch (Important Records, 2006)
• My Cat Is An Alien / Corsican Paintbrush split 10inch lathe cut (Opax Records/ Foxglove, 2006)
• Different Shades of Tape Box C60 cassette + 7inch + T-shirt (A Silent Place, 2007)
• My Cat Is An Alien / Valerio Cosi - 'Stories From The Vacuum split 7inch (Black Horizon, 2008)
• 8inch Triangular Lathe Cut Record (Pseudoarcana, 2008)
• My Cat Is An Alien / Moonmilk - 'Paseridae I' split 7inch (Sound&Fury, 2009)

COMPILATIONS

• "Alien cats’ attack!" on 'Tracce' CD (Wallace Rec, 1999)
• "World War" (The Cure) on 'La Cattedrale vs the 80’s' CD (White&Black, 1999)
• "I sold an alien to the F.B.I." on 'Related ProZZZect' CD + CD-r (ZZZ Prod.,1999)
• "Hear the voice of the Cosmos" on 'The Tone of the Universe (= The Tone of the Earth)' 2CD (Pseudoarcana, 2005)
• "Alien substratum 1.0/1.2" on 'Time and Relative Dimensions in Space: Long Form Works' CD (Rebis, 2005)
• "Elegy for all the extinct alien species" on 'The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box 6CD (Last Visible Dog, 2005)
• "Astral Enlightenment" on Dream Magazine #6 CD + Magazine (Dream Magazine, 2006)
• "Aliens in the Crowd" on 'Random Sounds Vol.2' CD-r (Indie Workshop, 2006)
• "Alien Beings" on 'Música Salvaje Desde el Infinito Cosmos' CD-r (Buh Records, 2010)
• "The Antigravitational Sense Of Nothingness" on 'Wire Tapper 25' CD + Magazine (The Wire Magazine, 2011)

ROBERTO OPALIO

• Chants From Isolated Ghosts CD-r / lathe-cut ART-LP (Opax Records, 2005)
• Voice With No Guitar/ Guitar With No Voice C20 cassette (Opax Tapes, 2005)
• The Last Night of the Angel of Glass DVD-r + CD-r set (Foxglove, 2006)
• "Transparent moods" on Orange Gold C20 Cassette Comp (Gold Soundz, 2006)
• Whispers of the Last Light DVD-r (Opax Records, 2006)
• The last night of the Angel of Glass, Vol.I & II 2CD / 2 lathe cut ART-LP + DVD (A Silent Place, 2007 / Opax Records, 2009)
• Chants from isolated ghosts CD (Important Records, 2007)
• Whispers of the last Light, part I & II lathe cut ART-LP + DVD (Opax Records, 2007)
• "In the Middle of the Air" (split with Maurizio Opalio) LP (Important Records, 2009)
• My Alien Notes (Escaping the Void?) art book + CD (Opax Press, 2009)
• "Blue Ether" (with Michael Morley, Ramona Ponzini, Lee Ranaldo
  Lee Ranaldo
  Lee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...
  
  ) in 'Live @ Sensational Fix' LP (Starlight Furniture Co., 2009)
• Liquid Spring (with Maurizio Opalio) CD (Elliptical Noise, 2009)
• The Hexagram on Grace CD (Elliptical Noise, 2010)
• Il Lungo Inverno lathe cut ART LP (Opax Editions, 2011)

MAURIZIO OPALIO

• Way up to Enfer CD-r / lathe cut ART-LP + book (Opax Records, 2006 / 2007)
• "Glacier Sommeiller" (split with Roberto Opalio) LP (Important Records, 2009)
• "Passo Galambra" (with Michael Morley, Ramona Ponzini, Lee Ranaldo
  Lee Ranaldo
  Lee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...
  
  ) in 'Live @ Sensational Fix' LP (Starlight Furniture Co., 2009)
• Liquid Spring (with Roberto Opalio) CD (Elliptical Noise, 2009)
• Il Lungo Inverno lathe cut ART LP (Opax Editions, 2011)

PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST (Ramona Ponzini, Maurizio Opalio, Roberto Opalio)

• Haru LP / CD (Time-Lag Records, 2005 / 2007)
• "Oceano" on Red Gold C20 Cassette Comp (Gold Soundz, 2006)
• Oounabara 1-sided lathe cut ART-LP + DVD (Opax Records, 2006)
• Oounabara C20 cassette (Opax Records, 2006)
• Fallen Camellias 1-sided 5x10inch lathe cut ART Box (Opax Records, 2008)
• Fallen Camellias CD (A Silent Place, 2008)
• "I lose consciousness" (split with Mykel Boyd) 7inch (Somnimage, 2008)
• "Haru no kuni" on Dream Magazine #9 CD Comp + Magazine (Dream Magazine, 2009)
• Haru No Omoi CD (PSF Japan, 2009)

PRAXINOSCOPE (Roberto Opalio & Ramona Ponzini)

• s/t CD-r / Picture Disc LP (Opax Records, 2005 / A Silent Place, 2006)
• Epocsonixarp LP / CD-r (Opax Records, 2006)
• Untitled #6 1-sided C20 cassette (Opax Tapes, 2008)
• For the tears of the Land_Prayers from the outer space (split with My Cat Is An Alien) 2LP / 2CD (Important Records, 2009 / Elliptical Noise, 2009)

BLACK MAGIC DISCO (Maurizio & Roberto Opalio, Ramona Ponzini, Tom Greenwood)

• s/t CD / 2LP (Important Records, 2007 / A Silent Place, 2007)

MUSIC FOR PHANTOMS (Maurizio & Roberto Opalio)

• I - CD-r + DVD (Opax Records, 2007)
• I - lathe cut ART-LP (Opax Editions, 2010)
• II - lathe cut ART-LP (Opax Editions, 2010)

ONE LONELY ALIEN CAT (Roberto Opalio)

• In The Blue Alien Dim Light ART CD-r (Opax Records, 1999)

ORANGE CAR CRASH (My Cat Is An Alien, Amour en Stéréophonie, Viggiu Vortex)

• Lights in the Space Room LP (Opax Records, 2002)

External links

• Official MCIAA biog
• Part MCIAA discog