My Cat Is An Alien / Pestrepeller - Solar Anarchy / As Wolf LP Picture Disc

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ASP31 - A Silent Place 2009
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SIDE ONE: My Cat Is An Alien “Solar Anarchy” - Recorded live in Cologne, Germany - December 14th, 2006.
Artwork - painting by Roberto Opalio

SIDE A: Pestrepeller “As Wolf” - Recorded by Toby Robinson in his London studio, August 2006.
Artwork by Savage Pencil

My Cat Is An Alien are the brothers Roberto and Maurizio Opalio, who have been spreading their unique brand of mysterious guitarnoise improv across the globe for ten years. Drawing inspiration from cosmic giants such as Sun Ra, My Cat Is An Alien christened their home rehearsal / performance area in Torino as 'The Space Room', and recorded numerous symbolic explorations of the outer galaxies.

Roberto Opalio's creative arts skills have, from the start, been harnessed to realising the visual components of their outer space metaphor, using photography and films; he also executes numerous paintings, sometimes for the benefit of limited-edition art-object records issued on their own OPAX label. Roberto returns obsessively to rendering his striking vision of an attenuated alien figure with its huge lone eye.

Pestrepeller are a band of part-time musicians from the UK. The core trio is Harley Richardson, Ed Pinsent and Savage Pencil. Richardson is a mathematics and computer expert who made a late and sudden conversion to free improvised noise; Ed Pinsent (who plays organ and Moog) is the editor of The Sound Projector Music Magazine and presenter of a radio show of the same name; Savage Pencil, is the only core member with any history of playing in bands, through his association as singer with The Art Attacks and Tagmemics, and guitarist in The Kray Cherubs.

Savage Pencil, well famous cult underground cartoonist, in his almost-30-years career made artworks for several bands (Sonic Youth, Lee Ranaldo, The Fall, Big Black, Masonna, etc.), labels (Sympathy For The Record Industry, SST, Blast First, Beggars Banquet, etc,.), and strips for music magazines (NME, Sound Magazine, The Wire, Mojo,etc.)