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My Cat is an Alien: Get cosmic with Keiji Hano & Steve Roden

  Tobias

This was to be expected: Steve Roden is the inspirational source for the “lower case” movement, which concentrates on the asthetics of very quiet noises of our immediate surroundings. The first track of his “Cosmic Debris” contribution focusses on the use of objects and fields recordings, both of which have been at the core of his work for a long time. With “My dog is a Yufo", however, he turns towards the electric guitar and his bare fingers, approaching his vision from a different angle – a personal experiment and a tightrope walk of avoiding using the instrument in a traditional fashion. As a pendant, My Cat is an Alien dive headlong into “multilayered echoes of voice, toy piano, space drones (...), and their own physical gestures performed during the recording, which reproduce themselves through the air.”

After the first “Cosmic Debris” CD, which my Cat is an Alien launched on their own label, “Opax”, the new editions will be published by Italian outfit “A Silent Place”. This deal, which secures them an as always excuisite packaging and a worldwide distribution, does not mean that they have ceased their activities in this field, though. Opax only recently boasted a string of My Cat is an Alien releases, some of which in tiny print runs of a mere nine (!) copies.

Homepage: My Cat is an Alien
Homepage: Inofficial Keiji Hano Homepage
Homepage: Steve Roden
Homepage: A Silent Place Records