Cargo Records

• FOCUS ON: My Cat Is An Alien

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• Genre: Avant Garde/Experimental

Minimal duo My Cat Is An Alien (Maurizio Opalio and his brother Roberto) delivered a post-rock version of Tim Buckleys sublime dejection on the totally improvised three-part jam Landscapes Of An Electric City (1999).

After the poetic digressions of Ascends the Sky (2001), inspired by a William Blake poem, and Il Segno (2003), with their own lyrics, the duo approached a more structured format with The Rest Is Silence (2004).

Through The Reflex Of The Rain (Free Porcupine Society, 2005) suffers from the excess of music that the duo produced over the years. The overall ambience is seductive, but the album is too long for the few ideas that it packages. A ten-minute EP would have been enough.

They also started a series of collaborations with their musical mentors, first with Thurston Moore on From The Earth To The Spheres Vol.1 (Very Friendly, 2004), then with Thuja on From The Earth To The Spheres Split Series Vol. 2 (Very Friendly, 2005), etc.

The (improvised) music on the triple-cd The Cosmological Eye Trilogy (Last Visible Dog, 2005) attained an even higher form of nirvana: astral and subliminal soundscapes sculpted with an arsenal of sound-producing objects at the transcendent border where acid-rock meets post-rock and free-jazz.
Tracks: The Cosmological Eye Introduction (14.01), Into the Sleeping Beauty galaxy (55.19), The Helix Nebula (7.59), Into the Sombrero galaxy (40.03), The Trifid Nebula (21.33), Into the Whirlpool galaxy (33.03), The Orion nebula (34.52). scaruffi.com