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My Cat is An Alien - Il Suono Venuto Dall Spazio [Victo - 2007]

Il Suono Venuto Dall Spazio finds the Opalio Brothers on another long improvised and psychodelic trip to another world inside our self’s or outside our star system. This is a remarkable well recorded live performance is from last years FIMAV festival.

The cd is split into two star soaring and strange world tinged tracks lasting just close an hour altogether. Entitle Parts one and two, with Part one taking up over 35 minutes of sound and Part two runs at 15 minute mark. To me this new sound adventure seems to take us either to; The  African plains to experience bizarre internal journey with-in our self’s and  getting lost with-in vast heat hazed plains on a trip of self discovery.  Or It’s a trip to an desert like world that it’s beautiful and haunted place where triple sun’s bake down on its orange sand expanses. As the first part simmers into view your taken over the lands strange singed  and exotic tranquilly, but as the track developers there seems some unrest in this orange paradise, as two tribes of wasp like people fight, then it escalates  into battle- as the brothers paint their disagreement and anger with great growing/building atmospherics. They aptly mixed together tribal and ethnic like percussion air, with build sound detail and noise to the tracks breathing-taking finale that mixes together pounding and warlike drums, weird insect mass chanting and buzzing, like a thousands  wasp people descending on each other,  as the track fades out an eerier sound like a broken space transmitter is looped, seemly as if all is lost.

Part two starts and makes clear all is not lost- It  sees a return to a bit calmer air through there’s still mad insect chattering and weird spacey noise swishing, but there seems ambience and calm at it’s base now, as if the two tribes decided to live together in some sort of harmony- as a strange ancient god raise from the  desert plains chanting his pleasure and joy at there joining, as the track nears the end crimson night  starts to settle on the planet with brothers producing slowing and settling spaces tone, with the insect chattering is calmed.

Another wonderful and captivating sound journey from the pair, which sees them, weaving in new sound textures, tribal percussion and genral sound painting perfection. As they Once more develop and grow their improvised space music into new facets of imagination.

Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5

Roger Batty
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