My Cat Is An Alien
Un nuevo disco de MCIAA edita el sello irlandés Trensmat Records que consiste en dos largos temas: ‘Alien, All Too Alien A’ y ‘Alien, All Too Alien B’. El primero comienza con una percusión asincopada, el rasgueo de una guitarra y percusión libre en una estructura improvisada, mientras emergen ruidos de pájaros, guitarra atonal y una voz moribunda de fondo. Esta amalgama musical desafinada produce una atmósfera asfixiante y oscura e hipnótica. ‘Alien, All Too Alien B’ empieza con un remolino de ruidos de guitarra eléctrica que luego se va apaciguando con los acordes desafinados de una guitarra acústica. El silbido de la harmónica da paso a un enjambre de guitarras de formas psicodélicas, espirales de sinte análogo mientras la guitarra eléctrica sostiene un sonido penetrante y agudo.
My Cat Is An Alien | ‘Alien, All Too Alien’ | Trensmat Records | 2013
This Italian duo, composed of brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, who work in film, video, audiovisual installations, poetry, drawing, photography, painting, and the musical genres of folk, noise, psychedelia, and drone, was formed in Turin, Italy, in late 1997.
They have a discography of more than 25 albums, some of which were released on their own label, Opax, and throughout their career they have collaborated with a long list of underground artists.
My Cat Is An Alien (MCIAA) plays electric and acoustic guitars, string instruments they make themselves, various toy instruments (called “space toys”), modified electronics (“alientronics”) and an extensive percussion set. Roberto Opalio uses his own wordless vocalisations as an additional “instrument”.
A new album by MCIAA is being released by Irish label Trensmat Records, consisting of two long tracks: “Alien, All Too Alien A” and “Alien, All Too Alien B”. The first begins with syncopated percussion, strumming guitar and free percussion in an improvised structure, while bird noises, atonal guitar and a dying voice emerge in the background. This out-of-tune musical amalgam produces a suffocating, dark and hypnotic atmosphere. “Alien, All Too Alien B” begins with a whirlwind of electric guitar noises that then subsides with the out-of-tune chords of an acoustic guitar. The whistle of the harmonica gives way to a swarm of psychedelic guitars, analogue synth spirals, while the electric guitar sustains a piercing, high-pitched sound.
