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"HiGH ▀ iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS"
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a r t i s t : Thurston Moore/My Cat Is An Alien
t i t l e : From the Earth to the Spheres, Vol. 1
d a t e : 2004
l a b e l : Opax Records OPX LP1
g e n r e : Other
r l s. d a t e : July/2004
t r a c k s : 02
b i t r a t e : 192kbps
s i z e : 56,8 MB
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This is the first volume of MCIAA's "From the Earth to the
Spheres" split LP series, with each volume being limited to 100
hand-painted copies -- and yr pals at HiT2k have access to
them. :) Future volumes will incluse Jackie-O Motherfucker,
Christina Carter (Charalambides), Jim O'Rourke, Thuja and more!
(Note: the hiss on Thurston's side appears on the record, and
is not the fault of yours truly, nor HiT2k. ;))
"When, in late 1997, Maurizio and Roberto Opalio from Torino,
Italy, started their musical project My Cat Is An Alien, their
need for an easy and direct way of releasing stuff which could
fit their creative urgency led the two brothers to set up a
label on their own. So, Opax Records started up releasing the
first MCIAA's recording, a cd-r special edition of 30 copies
wrapped in electric wires, which was sent to Sonic Youth in NYC
and immediately thrilled the most influential avant-rock band
since The Velvet Underground. During the past years SY
helpfully invited MCIAA several times to perform live at their
European shows; then in 2002, Thurston Moore released on his
own Ecstatic Peace label the 3-sided LP 'Landscapes of an
Electric City/Hypnotic Spaces', MCIAA's international debut,
followed by a couple of only-vinyl releases on the US labels
Starlight Furniture Co. and Eclipse Records. Now, after 6 years
of handmade cd-r editions, Opax Records has entered a new era
with its first proper official format: a new series of split
vinyl-lps entitled 'From the Earth to the Spheres.'
So, who could have opened the series better than Thurston Moore
himself? Surely, Moore is one of the few musicians in the
world who needs no introduction at all. But even the most fixed
fan & collector of his many solo records will be surprised by
this 21 minute piece called 'American Coffin'; from the
beginning, with Moore engaged in a free-piano action that
recalls both Dave Burrell's genius of the legendary 'Echo' LP
on Jazz Actuel and Stockhausen's textures of his wildest
masterpieces, the track is interpoled and fragmented by
splinters of sonic feedbacks, howling guitar and every sort of
musical collage inserts, all permeated by a cloud of dust and
debris. Because of its raw analogical recording, there's a
good load of tape hiss -- so close to Moore's aesthetics.
On the other side of the vinyl, MCIAA will project you in the
realm of the Cosmos. Their music is made of space sounds
flowing freely in both inner and outer dimensions; sound
sculptors and audiovisual artists MCIAA base most of their work
and research on purely improvised compositions, erecting
minimal textures created essentially by guitar space-drones
influenced by early American minimalism and the conceptual and
philosophical modus operandi of avant-pioneers such as John
Cage and Sun Ra. Here, in the track entitled 'Brilliance in the
outer space', MCIAA will make you lose your sense of
gravitational perception completely, with a fully emotional
vertical take-off that will dash you beyond the limits of
hyperspace. As the cover abstract shapes of concrete acrylic
painting mixed with crystals on wood suggest a free gestural
approach, the music represents a real impressive intro to the
spirit that moves the whole series: art as uncompromising
expression of liberty."
www.mycatisanalien.com
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01-Thurston Moore - American Coffin [20:54]
02-My Cat Is An Alien - Brilliance in the Outer Space [20:26]
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41:20 min
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