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MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - When the Windmill's Whirl dies

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Eclipse Records ECL-040 Release Year: 2004 Note: gatefold-sleeve, lim. 600 copies Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info “…Here we are/ Dancing with the dark shadows/ Here we are/ Dancing with the dark shadows…” This is the incipit of the first side of “When the windmill’s whirl dies”, the new work by the space-brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, alias My Cat Is An Alien; and here we are indeed, ready to dance with the shadows which surround the Light, as the intimate and vividly estranged mood originated by the floating guitar tunes will enter the furthest meanders of your mind. Both the words, recited and shaped by Roberto from his own homonymous poem that suggested the title of the album, and the oblique minimalism of the complex musical texture made of flowing space sounds, represent the abstract neo-expressionistic substratum of the whole corpus of the work. Moving throughout a nebula of space dust and debris, the starting spoken-word vocals alongside the percussive section sound as powerfully impressive as the violent imagery of trees beaten down by the storm, while the whispered silence of “Perspective of time” and “Fallin’”, on side two, discloses the emotional and existential universe of an isolated broken soul, lost in a world of inanity. This is the center of the No-thing Universe, where each single word or sound assumes the aspect of a sort of pagan prayer that speaks the language of astral folk-blues. In this context, MCIAA’s outer space becomes a re-found uterus, meant to be the form of a new self-biogenesis. At the same time, space is conceived as symbol of the eternal theatre surrounding the mysterious cycle of life & death; such infinite space, despite such limited time. This cosmic-chant of the new millennium may heat our nights like a flame left to enlighten the shadows of the coldest darkness. At the end of it all, some words will still be ringing in our minds: “…So, we’ll never forget the light”. After 2004’s key-work “The rest is silence”, MCIAA’s “When the windmill’s whirl dies” comes as the second act of a trilogy dedicated to the Great Void. A beautiful recording housed in a thick, heavy duty gatefold sleeve. Edition of 600 copies. -Eclipse Records Gatefold cover art - b/w film photographs by Roberto Opalio. www.eclipse-records.com