a r t i s t : Christina Carter, Andrew MacGregor, My Cat Is An Alien
t i t l e : From The Earth To The Spheres Vol. 4
d a t e : 2005
l a b e l : Very Friendly
c a t : VF021CD
s o u r c e : CDDA
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Oct/2006
t r a c k s : 02
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 64,3 MB
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* The CD versions have different volume numbers and this is
not to be confused with the vinyl version "Jim O'Rourke/My Cat
Is An Alien - From the Earth to the Spheres vol 4" which is
uber limited 100 copies only vinyl on opax records and
released by our great friends over in hit2k :)
This volume of the From the Earth to the Spheres series,
set up by Italy's My Cat Is An Alien, sees the brothers
Maurizio and Roberto Opalio split the release with the
American queen of psych-free-folk music Christina Carter
(Charalambides, Scorces), and her debut as the new duo-project
with Andrew MacGregor (Gown).
The title of their piece, We Know When We Are Thinking About
Each Other, gives an idea of the intimate mood which envelops
their two guitars' minimal tunes, made of reiterate single
notes which recall Christina's last masterpieces as Scorces
and Charalambides; her harsh yet warm plucking at the strings
and her fascinating vocals, accompanied by Andrew's bass
guitar chords and singing, sound as if the listener was called
to witness the secret dialogues between two distant lovers'
hearts.
The title of MCIAA's track, The Circle of Life & Death, fits
as ever before Roberto's cover painting, where the dark
imprints left by a white leaf on the acrylic-colored wooden
surface create a circle-like representation of life and death.
As the violet color recalls transcendence indeed, so do the
opening floating-guitar tunes and Roberto's wordless-vocal
hymn: this is probably the most melodic piece in all MCIAA's
career to date, since the musical texture represents a new
starting point from which their space guitar sounds can
develop. The piece moving into a sort of Wagnerian epic
crescendo, a raging storm of space fragments from beyond the
Solar system will imbue the Earth with a blinding light,
before everything collapses into the darkness of the Cosmos.
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01-Christina Carter & Andrew MacGregor - We Know When We [19:33]
Are Thinking About Each Other
02-My Cat Is An Alien - The Circle of Life & Death [21:56]
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41:29 min