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Artist: PRAXINOSCOPE Title: Praxinoscope Format: Picture Disc LP Label: A Silent Place Country: Italy Price: $16.00 |
| "A new project from ROBERTO OPALIO of MY CAT IS AN ALIEN, along with MCIAA collaborator RAMONA PONZINI. Here, Ponzini plays Japanese-style percussion and wind chimes to create resonant textures over Opalios alien wordless vocals and space electronics. Recorded in a mysterious location in the Western Alps with no overdubs or outtakes. Limited edition of 500 copies pressed on picture disc vinyl. Imported from Italy." |
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Artist: PRAXINOSCOPE Title: Inward Eye Format: LP Label: Lost Treasures Of The Underworld Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"INWARD EYE is the fourth album by PRAXINOSCOPE, recorded by Roberto Opalio at My Cat Is An Aliens private studio in Western Alps, during the long cold winter 2008. The work, investigated by Ken Hollings while writing MCIAAs cover article for the Wire, was therein presented: "As if powered by primordial forces, MCIAAs homemade universe continues to expand. You get the impression they really do dedicate all their time to their art. More ambitious still are their collaborations with Ramona Ponzini, who was for many years MCIAAs manager before she took up a full-time study of Japanese language and poetry at the university in Turin. Either working with both brothers as Painting Petals On Planet Ghost or with Roberto alone as PRAXINOSCOPE, Ramona brings a refined physicality to MCIAAs alien cosmology. Her study of Japanese literature from the Heian Period, which corresponds roughly to the European Middle Ages, relates closely to their preoccupations with change and disappearance. INWARD EYE brings this connection closer still." - Ken Hollings, The Wire. "Ramona Ponzini (Japanese bells & wind chimes, shion, vocals); Roberto Opalio (vocalizations, all effects, mini-keyboard, bodhran drum). The edition is limited to 287 and vinyl comes in three different colors: marble orange, marble white, and black. The record is housed in a 12" cloth bag, with front, back and inner fully screen-printed with artwork reproducing a painting by Roberto Opalio. Secret messages are written between the grooves and both sides center labels, that feature mysterious, full-color portraits of Ramona and Roberto respectively on each side. Each copy hand-numbered and hand-stamped, reporting the exact date of printing . Edition of 287 copies, hand-numbered and hand-stamped, reporting the exact date of printing . Vinyl comes in three different colors: marble orange, marble white, and black. The record is housed in a 12" canvas bag (??), with front, back and inner fully screen printed with artwork reproducing a painting by Roberto Opalio. Secret messages are written between the grooves and both sides center labels, that feature mysterious, full-color portraits of Ramona and Roberto respectively on each side. Each copy includes two extra alternate center labels." - Lost Treasures Of The Underworld. |
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Artist: PRAXINOSCOPE Title: Epocsonixarp Format: LP Label: Opax Country: Italy Price: $42.00 |
| "special private press edition of only 130, with heavy textured cardboard sleeve + sticked art on cover, individually numbered. "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 Robertos use of a mini-keyboard and astral effects collides with Ramonas hypnotic use of several handmade wood percussions and her Japanese wind chimes and bells, creating such an infinite and intimate space so that you cannot but loose yourself inside. A whirlpool of Robertos whispered wordless vocals will live till the evening dies, and the black of the night will come to surround everything. As the duo asks, Play it in the dark!." - Opax. |
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Artist: PRAXINOSCOPE Title: Epocsonixarp Format: CDR Label: Opax Country: Italy Price: $16.00 |
| "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 Robertos use of a mini-keyboard and astral effects collides with Ramonas hypnotic use of several handmade wood percussions and her Japanese wind chimes and bells, creating such an infinite and intimate space so that you cannot but loose yourself inside. A whirlpool of Robertos whispered wordless vocals will live till the evening dies, and the black of the night will come to surround everything. As the duo asks, Play it in the dark!." - Opax. Edition of 130. |
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Artist: PRAXINOSCOPE Title: S/T Format: CDR Label: Opax Country: Italy Price: $16.00 |
| "Praxinoscope is a new project which sees the duo Roberto Opalio (one-half of My Cat Is An Alien) and Ramona Ponzini (close collaborator of the Italian space-brothers). While in the debut album as Painting Petals On Planet Ghost (out in early September 2005 on Time-Lag Records) Ramona will focus on her Japanese vocals alongside both brothers acoustic tunes, here she plays little Japanese percussions and wind chimes, creating a resonant texture over Robertos alien wordless vocals and space electronics. The material comes from a whole session recorded in a mysterious location of the Western Alps, directly transferred to cd using neither overdubs nor outtakes, practice which the Opalio bros have made us addicted to. For the entire lenght of its 40 minutes, the piece will stifle you the breath because of its so pure essence and intimate mood; a mystic, suffocated chant reminding the silence of ancient rituals, the ultimate exorcism to avert the Infinite Pain. ltd.ed. of 125 hand-numbered copies; look-like-vinyl black-bottom cd-r in special heavy paper folder sleeve" - Opax. |