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Minimal duo My Cat Is An Alien (Maurizio Opalio and his brother Roberto)
delivered a post-rock version of Tim Buckley's 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 - Starlight Furniture Co, 2007), a dreamy soundscape and a ghostly blues jam 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).
The prolific duo used the trilogy as the launching pad for an increasing
"cosmic" theme:
Listen Before Black Falls (Root Strata, 2006),
There's A Flame (Rococo, 2006),
Cosmic Light of the Third Millennium (Important, 2006)
were all studies
on texture and soundsculpting that evoked a fragile blurred galactic amoeba.
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