PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST

Painting Petal on Planet Ghost

(Time Lag) Used LP $10.00

An esoteric and mesmerizing trip through space, minimalism, and emotion by My Cat Is An Alien’s Opalio brothers and Ramona Ponzini. Each track was recorded in 2005 at a different mystical location in the western alps, and centered around Ponzini’s Japanese vocals. Accompaniment is sparse: toy piano, alien keyboard tones, antique accordion, percussion, tape effects, and some particularly evocative acoustic guitar. The whole thing comes off alternately as deeply meditative or chillingly haunted. 180g vinyl. Letterpress printed cover and insert. Copper ink on thick handmade ivory paper. Numbered edition of 560

MYKEL BOYD / PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST

Painting Petals on Planet Ghost / Mykel Boyd

(Somnimage - som10014) split 7-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

The Opalio brothers (My Cat is an Alien) with Ramona Ponzini bring the mellow on the Painting Petals on Planet Ghost side with ambient noise and bells. Boyd's sweet ride consists of processed field recordings. White vinyl in opaque wrap-over sleeve. Limited to 200 copies.

PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST

Transparent Winter

(Seven Solar Metals - Season Two) CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Following the Haru No Omoi CD (P.S.F. 2009), hailed as a return to the ancient spirit of Japanese national poetry, Ramona Ponzini (Praxinoscope, Z’ev, Black Magic Disco), and Roberto & Maurizio Opalio (aka My Cat Is An Alien) create fragile and unusual experiments somewhere between folk, psychedelia and drone. Ponzini sings in Japanese (excerpts from the poetry of Takamura Kotaro) and plays furin and Japanese wind chimes (both metal and wooden). With Maurizio on acoustic guitar, and Roberto on mini keyboard, bodhran, alientronics, and wordless vocalizations, the trio’s luscious and mysterious music is strange, distant and delicate. Includes alternate mixes of “Mars Appears” and “The Mountain” (Blackest Rainbow 2011); the complete “Transparent Winter” session; thirty-three minutes of previously unreleased material (“Notes From A Telephone Conversation,” “Winter Is Coming,” and the Yosano Akiko-inspired “Ochitsubaki”); and a bonus ghost track.