Alienology: Selected Works 1998​-​2008

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Album Info

Release Date: 2012

Labels: Opax, Elliptical Noise

Private Art Edition, Limited to 10 Copies.

Outer cover formed by two wooden boards binded with fake leather to the heavy cardboard spine; seventeen pages printed on "Tintoretto" 95g paper, four 240g parchment paper leaves, and two heavy cardboard panels, all glued and punctured along their inner margin and secured with a natural fibre rope to the outer spine. The book includes full liner notes of each disc, plus a section dedicated to all lyrics, poems and some writings.

Roberto Opalio's 'Alienology' illustration printed in full colors on front cover board. Opax Editions' logo handstamped in black ink on the back cover board. Pencilled signature by both artists on inner front board; handnumbered.

Edition concept & design: Maurizio Opalio.
Layout: My Cat Is An Alien
Completely handmade by Maurizio Opalio.

CDs manufactured by Elliptical Noise, Canada.

Published by Opax Editions in Western Alps, January 2012.

Collection of works from 1998 to 2008, MCIAA's first decade:

• Disc 1: recorded May 1999 at Delta Studio, Torino, Italy. Field recordings captured on a mono cassette recorder by MCIAA in Torino.
- This improvisation is dedicated to Torino -
Originally released in CD-R format by ZZZProd. (ZZZ-12) in collaboration with Opax Records, October 1st, 1999.
Re-issued as 3-sided LP (including bonus EP 'Hypnotic Spaces') by Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace! (e#54b), April 2002.

• Discs 2 & 3: 'Infinite Spaces' is a solo piece by Roberto Opalio. Recorded in winter of early 2000 at MCIAA's Space Room studio, Torino, Italy.
Originally released as double vinyl LP by Eclipse Records (ECL 027), January 2004.
- Dedicated to the memory of our granny Massima Moris Ottone -

• Disc 4: recorded August 2003 at MCIAA's Space Room studio, Torino, Italy. No overdubs, no outtakes.
Originally released as vinyl LP by Eclipse Records (ECL 040), March 2005.
- In eternal loving memory of Camillo -

• Disc 5: recorded January 2004 at MCIAA's Space Room studio, Torino, Italy. No overdubs, no outtakes.
Originally released as vinyl LP by Rococo Records (RCC005), January 2006. Re-issued as private vinyl LP by Opax Records (OPX 029A), May 2008.
- For Biginto__________ -

• Disc 6: Track 1 recorded June 2004 at MCIAA's Space Room studio, Torino, Italy. No overdubs, no outtakes.
Originally conceived as 'Where The Lines Go To Sleep' private press vinyl LP on Opax Records (with 'Into The White Vortex' on side B), but never released.
Track 2 recorded June 2004 at MCIAA's Space Room studio, Torino, Italy. No overdubs, no outtakes.
Originally released as private art edition 1-sided LP of 110 exemplars by Opax Records (OPX 021A), February 2007.

• Disc 7: Recorded April 5th and 6th, 2005, at MCIAA's Alien Zone studio, Western Alps, Italy. No overdubs, no outtakes.
Originally released as double vinyl LP by Eclipse Records (ECL 054), September 2006.

• Disc 8: Recorded November 18th, 2005, at MCIAA's Alien Zone studio, Western Alps, Italy. No overdubs, no outtakes.
Originally released on CD by Ikuisuus (IKU-003), May 2006.

• Disc 9: Track 1 recorded and performed on September 19th, 2006. Tracks 2 & 3 recorded on May 15th, 2007. All tracks recorded at MCIAA's Alien Zone studio, Western Alps, Italy. No overdubs, no outtakes.
Originally released as double vinyl split LP with Praxinoscope by Important Records (imprec217LP), January 2009. Re-issued on CD by Elliptical Noise (ΑΩ6543CD), November 2009.

• Disc 10: Recorded February 19th, 2008, at MCIAA's Alien Zone studio, Western Alps, Italy. No overdubs, no outtakes.
Original soundtrack to Roberto Opalio's film 'Alien Blood' (2005-2008), shown at 'SONIC YOUTH etc.: SENSATIONAL FIX' touring exhibition in various European museums from 2008 to 2010.

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‘Landscapes Of An Electric City’ remastered from the original tapes.
All other albums have been remastered appositely for this ten disc retrospective.

Cover art: Roberto Opalio 'Alienology' (2011)