Band, *1997 IT
Electronic and Rock
A.k.a. Maurizio Opalio & Roberto Opalio Brothers From Another Space
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 experimental / avant garde music in a peculiar form of improvisation that MCIAA themselves define 'instantaneous composition'. My Cat Is An Alien have set up multimedia collaborations with vanguards such as Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Christian Marclay, Keiji Haino, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Jim O'Rourke, Nels Cline (Wilco), Text of Light, Steve Roden, Christina Carter (Charalambides), Mats Gustafsson, Enore Zaffiri and many more. Byron Coley and Thurston Moore wrote on Arthur Magazine, "Italy's MY CAT IS AN ALIEN is the finest two-brother band from Italy since the end of the Great War." 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. Multi-instrumentalists, My Cat Is An Alien primarily play electric and acoustic guitars, self-made string instruments, various toy instruments (so-called 'space toys'), modified electronics ('alientronics') and a wide set of percussion. Roberto Opalio's personal use of wordless vocalizations adds human voice as a further instrument in the list. 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.
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Track list and 30sec audio provided by
Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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ATP: Nightmare Before Christmas 2006 Curated by Thurston Moore | My Cat Is An Alien | 2019 | Album |
Le Jardin De Vréneli | Oskar Panizza, My Cat Is An Alien | 2018 | Album |
The Sky With Broken Arms | My Cat Is An Alien | 2018 | Album |
PoesiaSonorAlienica | My Cat Is An Alien, Thurston Moore | 2018 | Single |
Union Of The Supreme Light | My Cat Is An Alien, Jean-Marc Montera | 2017 | Album |
MCIAA XAVIER VEILHAN STUDIO VENEZIA 2017 | My Cat Is An Alien | 2017 | Album |
"RE-SI-STEN-ZA!" | My Cat Is An Alien | 2016 | Album |
> Eternal Beyond > | My Cat Is An Alien & Joëlle Vinciarelli | 2016 | Album |
The Dance Of Oneirism | My Cat Is An Alien | 2015 | Album |
Abstract Expressionism For The Ears | My Cat Is An Alien, Cédric Stevens | 2014 | Album |
Black Blossom | My Cat Is An Alien, Jüppala Kääpiö | 2014 | Album |
Alien, All Too Alien | My Cat Is An Alien | 2013 | Single |
Psycho-System | My Cat Is An Alien | 2013 | Album |
The Ocean Above Your Heads | My Cat Is An Alien With Nels Cline | 2013 | Album |
Art Is A Tear Of Noise And Infinite Silence | My Cat Is An Alien | 2012 | Album |
Alienology: Selected Works 1998-2008 | My Cat Is An Alien | 2011 | Album |
What Space Is Made For | My Cat Is An Alien | 2011 | Album |
Living On The Invisible Line | My Cat Is An Alien | 2011 | Album |
My Cat Is An Alien & The Analog Statement | My Cat Is An Alien | 2011 | Compil. |
Untitled | My Cat Is An Alien / Painting Petals On Planet Ghost | 2011 | Album |
All Is Lost In Translation | My Cat Is An Alien, Ramona Ponzini, Lee Ranaldo | 2010 | Album |
Gramofonu = Voice Of The Universe | Birds Build Nests Underground & My Cat Is An Alien | 2010 | Album |
My Cat Is An Alien & Bjerga / Iversen | My Cat Is An Alien & Bjerga / Iversen | 2010 | Album |
Photoelectric Season | My Cat Is An Alien | 2010 | Album |
Fragments Suspended In Time | My Cat Is An Alien | 2010 | Album |
Mort Aux Vaches | My Cat Is An Alien | 2009 | Album |
Solar Anarchy / As Wolf | My Cat Is An Alien / Pestrepeller | 2009 | Album |
Through The Magnifying Glass Of Tomorrow | My Cat Is An Alien & Enore Zaffiri | 2009 | Album |
For The Tears Of The Land_Prayers From The Outer Space Vol. 1 | My Cat Is An Alien | 2009 | Album |
Passeridae I | Moonmilk / My Cat Is An Alien | 2008 | Single |
Alien Blood | My Cat Is An Alien | 2008 | Album |
Cosmic Debris Volume IV | My Cat Is An Alien / Mats Gustafsson | 2008 | Album |
Cosmic Debris Volume V | Loren Mazzacane Connors & Haunted House / My Cat Is An Alien | 2008 | Album |
Live @ Sensational Fix | Michael Morley / My Cat Is An Alien / Ramona Ponzini / Lee Ranaldo | 2008 | Album |
For The Tears Of Land, Prayers From Outer Space | My Cat Is An Alien / Praxinoscope | 2008 | Album |
8 Inch Triangular Lathe Cut Record | My Cat Is An Alien | 2008 | Single |
Split | Family Underground / My Cat Is An Alien | 2007 | Album |
Cosmic Debris Volume II | Steve Roden / My Cat Is An Alien | 2007 | Album |
Into The White Vortex | My Cat Is An Alien | 2007 | Single |
Stories From The Vacuum | My Cat Is An Alien / Valerio Cosi | 2007 | Single |
Cosmic Debris Volume III | My Cat Is An Alien / Keiji Haino | 2007 | Album |
Sotto Le Stelle | My Cat Is An Alien | 2007 | Single |
Leave Me In The Black No-Thing | My Cat Is An Alien | 2006 | Album |
Introducing The Cosmic Blues | My Cat Is An Alien | 2006 | Single |
"... Ascends The Sky" | My Cat Is An Alien | 2006 | Album |
Listen Before Black Falls | My Cat Is An Alien | 2006 | Album |
On Air At Sound Projecting | My Cat Is An Alien | 2006 | Album |
My Cat Is An Alien / Corsican Paintbrush | My Cat Is An Alien / Corsican Paintbrush | 2006 | Album |
Il Suono Venuto Dallo Spazio | My Cat Is An Alien | 2006 | Album |
Cosmic Debris Volume I | My Cat Is An Alien / Text Of Light | 2006 | Album |
For Alan Lomax | Fabio Orsi / My Cat Is An Alien | 2006 | Album |
Greetings From The Great Void | My Cat Is An Alien | 2006 | Album |
Different Shades Of Blue | My Cat Is An Alien | 2006 | Single |
Folclore Alieno | My Cat Is An Alien | 2006 | Album |
The Secret Of The Dancing Snow | My Cat Is An Alien | 2006 | Album |
From The Earth To The Spheres Vol. 7 | Okkyung Lee & Christian Marclay / My Cat Is An Alien | 2005 | Album |
Through The Reflex Of The Rain | My Cat Is An Alien | 2005 | Album |
The Cosmological Eye Trilogy | My Cat Is An Alien | 2005 | Album |
Different Shades Of Blue | My Cat Is An Alien | 2005 | Album |
From The Earth To The Spheres Vol. 5 | Christina Carter & Andrew MacGregor / My Cat Is An Alien | 2005 | Album |
Cosmic Light Of The Third Millennium | My Cat Is An Alien | 2005 | Album |
From The Earth To The Spheres Vol. 6 | Glands Of External Secretion / My Cat Is An Alien | 2005 | Album |
There's A Flame ___ Sometimes | My Cat Is An Alien | 2005 | Album |
Black Shadows From Jupiter | My Cat Is An Alien | 2005 | Album |
Astral Key | My Cat Is An Alien | 2005 | Album |
Plutonian Flames | My Cat Is An Alien | 2005 | Album |
From The Earth To The Spheres Vol. 2 | Thuja / My Cat Is An Alien | 2004 | Album |
From The Earth To The Spheres Vol. 3 | Jackie O Motherfucker / My Cat Is An Alien | 2004 | Album |
From The Earth To The Spheres Vol. 1 | Thurston Moore / My Cat Is An Alien | 2004 | Album |
The First Flame Of Tomorrow | My Cat Is An Alien | 2004 | Album |
Floating In The Void | My Cat Is An Alien | 2004 | Album |
The Cosmological Eye Trilogy - Part Two - | My Cat Is An Alien | 2004 | Album |
From The Earth To The Spheres Vol. 1 | Thurston Moore / My Cat Is An Alien | 2004 | Album |
When The Windmill's Whirl Dies | My Cat Is An Alien | 2004 | Album |
Everything Is Here | My Cat Is An Alien | 2004 | Single |
From The Earth To The Spheres Vol. 4 | Jim O'Rourke / My Cat Is An Alien | 2004 | Album |
The Rest Is Silence | My Cat Is An Alien | 2003 | Album |
The Cosmological Eye Trilogy - Part One - | My Cat Is An Alien | 2003 | Album |
Out Of The Blue___Into The White | My Cat Is An Alien | 2003 | Album |
The Alien CD-R Attack Series Vol. II - Infinite Lights Above Us | My Cat Is An Alien | 2001 | Album |
The Alien CD-R Attack Series Vol. III - ...Ascends The Sky | My Cat Is An Alien | 2001 | Album |
The Alien CD-R Attack Series Vol. I - Holland Alien Invasion | My Cat Is An Alien | 2001 | Album |
Il Segno | My Cat Is An Alien | 2000 | Album |
Alien Dissolving | My Cat Is An Alien | 1999 | Album |
Landscapes Of An Electric City | My Cat Is An Alien | 1999 | Album |
My Cat Is An Alien | My Cat Is An Alien | 1998 | Album |