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ROBERTO OPALIO - Chants From Isolated Ghosts
imprec115 - CD - $11.99 
Chants From Isolated Ghosts is Roberto Opalio's
full-length debut album recorded November 2004 at home in Torino,
Italy, and originally released on his own Opax Records
label in a very limited handmade cd-r edition of 100 copies.
The work consists of four tracks, for a total lenght of 38:02 minutes.
Roberto Opalio is half of the Italian space duo My Cat
Is An Alien.
Roberto Opalio is a visual and sound artist from Torino,
Italy. His work includes painting, drawing, photography, sculpture,
poetry, glass art, film/video, sound installation, and performance.
Since 1998 Roberto Opalio acts as musician (together with
his brother Maurizio) in the avant-garde improv duo My
Cat Is An Alien. His special works of art represent the trademarked
style of all the limited art-edition releases issued on their own
Opax Records imprint.This aesthetic is described by Opalio
as "space art". The extra-terrestrial nature of his work
claims its ontological status in the act of creating a non-finished,
otherwordly dimension - a proper alien dimension.
In the last few years Roberto Opalio has performed his
videos and specific audio visual installations in various arts &
music spaces and festival in Italy and Europe, including the Sage
Gateshead Newcastle and CCA Center of Contemporary Arts Glasgow
in UK, Victoria Hall Geneve and Fri-son Freiburg in Switzerland,
Galeria Ze' dos Bois Lisbon in Portugal, Torino BIG Biannual of
Young Artists 2000, Interzona Verona, Init and Spazio S.Ambrogio
Roma, Zo' Catania in Italy; group exhibition at Promotrice Delle
Belle Arti Torino, as well as many other audio visual performances
including Teatro Juvarra, Procope, Liber, Machè, Fuoriluogo
and Villa Capriglio among others in his hometown Torino.
Roberto Opalio's poetry works and drawings have been published
in journals worldwide, including Thurston Moore's Ecstatic
Peace Poetry Journal, Thee Flat Bike and Dream Magazine
in USA, Cocktail Molotov Journal in Brazil, The Sound
Projector in UK, Sloow Tapes' My Favourite Magazine
in Belgium among others.
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