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Cyrnai

Country: United States

Cyrnai is the project of Carolyn Fok, an Asian American electronic musician from the San Francisco Bay Area who began experimenting with synthesizers and reel-to-reel tape as a teenager in the early 1980s. Her early records mixed industrial rhythms with flute, piano and other acoustic instruments and spoken poetry, and they grew out of the local post-punk scene. Dark Entries collected her 1980-1990 output in a vinyl box set in 2018. Cyrnai released Charred Blossoms in 1985, followed by the cassette Parts Of The Insomnic Wheel and the albums Hypno-Seizure and To Subtle-Drive.

1980-1990
2025 stock Dark Entries reissues the first 4 full-lengths from Carolyn Fok / CYRNAI, an Asian-American female solo artist from the Bay Area. The 6xLP box set contains all of Carolyn's officially released music as CYRNAI between 1980-1990, as well as …
Parts Of The Insomnic Wheel
2025 stock A reissue of the 2nd full-length from Carolyn Fok / CYRNAI, an Asian-American female solo artist from the Bay Area. Carolyn’s adventures in sound began with recording stories on a tape recorder at age 9 in 1976. A short time later, explori…
To Subtle Drive
2025 stock A reissue of the 4th full-length from Carolyn Fok / CYRNAI, an Asian-American female solo artist from the Bay Area. Carolyn’s adventures in sound began with recording stories on a tape recorder at age 9 in 1976. A short time later, explori…
Charred Blossoms
2025 stock A reissue the debut album from Carolyn Fok / CYRNAI, an Asian-American female solo artist from the Bay Area. Carolyn’s adventures in sound began with recording stories on a tape recorder at age 9 in 1976. A short time later, exploring the …
Hypno Seizure
2025 stock We are honored to reissue the 3rd full length from Carolyn Fok / CYRNAI, an Asian-American female solo artist from the Bay Area. Carolyn’s adventures in sound began with recording stories on a tape recorder at age 9 in 1976. A short time l…