Lion's Eye / Lion's Tale
An astonishing album, Lion's Eye for Gamelan was commissioned in 1985 by Barbara Benary for Gamelan Son of Lion. Lion's Eye for Synthesizer was commissioned concurrently by Neil Rolnick for iEAR Presents at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Both vers…
Primordial Lift
Originally released on the Table of the Elements label and long out of print, this Pauline Oliveros's version of the recording contains an additional 30 minutes of material not included on the original release. Recorded live on March 20, 1998 at Hall…
Tara's room
Both pieces are intended to aid the listener in times of spiritual change, but are just fine for 'everyday' use as well. Highly recommended." Charles S. Russell, Ear Magazine The two works on this cd - Tara's Room and The Beauty of Sorrow were compos…
7 2 Berlz
A MEV "theater piece", performed by Alan Bryant (or "Al B" as shown on the cover in "fnetc speling"). Alan Byrant was a founding member of MEV, but this is newly recorded & full of mystery. Not sure of the content, it's supposed to be some kind of co…
Persona
Originally released in 2000 as a limited vinyl only album, 'Persona' is now available on CD for the first time. Persona' was recorded in February 2000, just a week after the 'Afternoon Tea' collaboration with Fennesz, Pimmon, Pita and Keith Rowe. Uti…
Stacte.3
Originally released in 2000 as a limited vinyl only album (on Plate Lunch), 'Stacte.3' is now available on CD for the first time. Described by Wire scribe Jon Dale as Alvin Lucier and Cluster collaborating for Mego, the concept of Oren Ambarchi's 'St…
Hedonism
Despite only being released now 'Hedonism' is actually the first studio album by Dirk Dresselhaus and Ilpo Vaisanen as duo, a project which started in 1999. Five years in the making and being started before Hildur Gudnadottir joined forces, 'Hedonism…
Cosmic Debris, Vol.II
Second installment in the "Cosmic Debris" split ART-LP series set up by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka My Cat Is An Alien, on their own Opax Records. The Vol.II sees the two space brothers from Torino, Italy, alongside Californian visual and sound …
Chants from isolated ghosts
Roberto Opalio is half of the Italian space duo My Cat Is An Alien. Chants From Isolated Ghosts is Roberto Opalio's full-lenght debut album recorded November 2004 at home in Torino, Italy, and originally released on his own Opax Records label in a ve…
Painting Petals On Planet Ghost + Mykel Boyd
PPOPG is Ramona Ponzini and the Opalio Brothers from My Cat is an Alien. They bring the mellow on their side with a piece entitled 'I lose consciousness', with a sweet acoustic guitar intro and a mantra of Japanese chant and wind chimes, all floating…
Epocsonixarp
'Epocsonixarp' is the second full-lenght album of the Praxinoscope duo formed by Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petals On Planet Ghost). This work is even more lyrical and ecstatic than the debut; here Roberto's use …
On air at Sound Projecting
The entire recording of the improvised live performance at Ed Pinsent’s "Sound Projecting" radio show, broadcasted by London’s Resonance 104.4 fm on December 10th 2004. In these sessions MCIAA don’t play their usual cosmic guitars, but only a couple …
There\'s a flame___sometimes
New Opax edition of this key-work, recorded in Fall 2003 at the glorious MCIAA's Space Room studio which was based in an abandoned factory zone in Torino, Italy, and where all the Opalio brothers' first recordings saw the light! Based on a spoken-wor…
s/t
This new Bokanowski CD offers us two previously edited pieces (but now sold out) : 'Trois Chambres d'Inquiétude' (1975-1976) (previously on Elevator Bath) and 'Tabou' (1983-1984) (previously on Metamkine) and an unpublished piece 'Phone Variations' (…
We Sing For The Future
Like a chorus of eunuchs standing over you on your deathbed sending you off to hell with jews harp and squalid tunes from children?s plays?or like outtakes from a Diamanda Galas Mass, in which the choir tries to have fun with the libretto to keep fro…
Gluckskugel
Finders Keepers present the first ever collection of musical works of Bruno Spoerri, the mythical character who used to work with members of legendary Krautrockers Can and composed music for engineering companies and made motivational music for indus…
Inter-Dimensional Music
CD reissue of the 1978 debut LP by the original new age music legend, Iasos. Fifteen tracks (including 3 bonus tracks) of original analog bliss. It is NOT the typical sounds of the average new age music found throughout the '80s, it is a trippy, exot…