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File under: ExperimentalIndustrial
Cyrnai
1980-1990 (6LP + 7" + Book)
Format2LPLabelDark EntriesGenreElectronic
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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 bonus materials. Most of these songs will see their first vinyl appearance ever in a deluxe edition limited boxed set (333 copies). Remastered by George Horn, the set features an exclusive 48-page booklet with photos, quotes, interviews and liner notes written by Carolyn and introduction by Greg Allen (author of ‘Klaus Schulze, Electronic Music Legend’). Over 70 songs, 4 hours of music, spread across six records plus an exclusive bonus 7” of cover songs by The Cure and Gang Of Four all packaged in a black matte wrap box with crimson red foil stamping.
Carolyn’s adventures in sound began with recording stories on a tape recorder at age 9 in 1976. A short time later, exploring the scattering of musical instruments and effects units her father left lying around the family home. She became especially fascinated by his TEAC reel-to-reel recorder that set off a lifelong fascination with sound design. By the age of 16 Carolyn had become inspired by industrial electronic act Cabaret Voltaire, as well as anarcho-punks Crass. Creating the stage name CYRNAI, a rearranging alphabet of Carolyn Fok, she played in several Bay Area bands including Treason, A State Of Mind, Trial and Rhythm & Noise between 1983 and 1991. Her debut release as CYRNAI, 1985’s 12” EP ‘Charred Blossoms’, followed by the cassette albums ‘Parts of The Insomnic Wheel’ in 1986, ‘Hypno-Seizure’ in 1987 and two versions of ‘To Subtle-Drive’ in 1989/1990.
Despite having been featured in publications including Electronic Musician, Keyboard and with a long term association with Industrial music, Carolyn has remained an intensely private musician, artist and writer until now. However, she has launched an ambitious project that involves releasing her vast archive of music as a 'memoir’ via her website memoirofsound.com. Having spent extensive time in the studio amassing around 100 albums worth of electronic and experimental music, field recordings, collaborations, band projects and more, these are now being released in one place. “Her time is beyond due to be recognized, represented and attributed for her contributions to experimental analogue culture with sounds still fresher than tomorrow.” Eloise Leigh (New Age Rage, Berlin Community Radio)
Carolyn’s adventures in sound began with recording stories on a tape recorder at age 9 in 1976. A short time later, exploring the scattering of musical instruments and effects units her father left lying around the family home. She became especially fascinated by his TEAC reel-to-reel recorder that set off a lifelong fascination with sound design. By the age of 16 Carolyn had become inspired by industrial electronic act Cabaret Voltaire, as well as anarcho-punks Crass. Creating the stage name CYRNAI, a rearranging alphabet of Carolyn Fok, she played in several Bay Area bands including Treason, A State Of Mind, Trial and Rhythm & Noise between 1983 and 1991. Her debut release as CYRNAI, 1985’s 12” EP ‘Charred Blossoms’, followed by the cassette albums ‘Parts of The Insomnic Wheel’ in 1986, ‘Hypno-Seizure’ in 1987 and two versions of ‘To Subtle-Drive’ in 1989/1990.
Despite having been featured in publications including Electronic Musician, Keyboard and with a long term association with Industrial music, Carolyn has remained an intensely private musician, artist and writer until now. However, she has launched an ambitious project that involves releasing her vast archive of music as a 'memoir’ via her website memoirofsound.com. Having spent extensive time in the studio amassing around 100 albums worth of electronic and experimental music, field recordings, collaborations, band projects and more, these are now being released in one place. “Her time is beyond due to be recognized, represented and attributed for her contributions to experimental analogue culture with sounds still fresher than tomorrow.” Eloise Leigh (New Age Rage, Berlin Community Radio)
Details
File under: ExperimentalIndustrial
Cat. number: DE-CYRNAI, DE-207, DE-208, DE-209, DE-210
Year: 2018
Format
Limited to 333 copies.
Features an exclusive 48-page booklet with photos, quotes, interviews and liner notes written by Carolyn and introduction by Greg Allen (author of ‘Klaus Schulze, Electronic Music Legend’).
Release notes
Limited to 333 copies. Features an exclusive 48-page booklet with photos, quotes, interviews and liner notes written by Carolyn and introduction by Greg Allen (author of ‘Klaus Schulze, Electronic Music Legend’).
Tracklist
| Charred Blossoms | |||
| A1 | Phobic In Ruins | ||
| A2 | Waydom | ||
| A3 | Noct (Mourning Glare) | ||
| A4 | Incision Tree | ||
| A5 | Sensitivity | ||
| A6 | Windmill | ||
| B1 | Be Happy Or Go Straight | ||
| B2 | Waydom (Demo) | ||
| B3 | Burnt Shadows | ||
| B4 | Progress After Distance | ||
| B5 | A Prosaic Afternoon | ||
| B6 | Power To Wait | ||
| B7 | Kemoflosh 2 | ||
| B8 | The Day Inside | ||
| Covers | |||
| C1 | In Your House | ||
| D1 | The Holy Hour | ||
| D2 | It's Her Factory | ||
| Parts Of The Insomnic Wheel | |||
| A1 | Constant | ||
| A2 | Red Carpet Hallways | ||
| A3 | Dungeon Of Leftovers | ||
| A4 | The Pitchfork Of Womanhood | ||
| A5 | Prison Tree Duet | ||
| B1 | Numb Machinery | ||
| B2 | White Sky Moving | ||
| B3 | Tibetan Bowls Signaling | ||
| B4 | Fluorescent Nerve Endings | ||
| B5 | Spirals And Diameters | ||
| B6 | Clutching A Pencil | ||
| C1 | Time Has The Humor | ||
| C2 | Cinder Theory | ||
| C3 | Indoor Lighting | ||
| C4 | I Was Over-born | ||
| C5 | Dig A Hole | ||
| C6 | Oh, Sun Come In! | ||
| D1 | A Goodbye Peck | ||
| D2 | Storing The Past In Formaldehyde | ||
| D3 | Prison Tree | ||
| D4 | Dreamer’s Paralysis | ||
| D5 | Have You Heard My Life | ||
| D6 | Ride Into Your Energy | ||
| Hypno-Seizure | |||
| A1 | Is It Colored Numbers? | ||
| A2 | A Thousand Eyes On One Street | ||
| A3 | Going Under Hypnotized | ||
| A4 | Hallucination, Custom Cut | ||
| A5 | Robot State | ||
| A6 | I Will Have You | ||
| B1 | A Rainbow Of Business | ||
| B2 | The Promise Of Happiness | ||
| B3 | Brushed With Water | ||
| B4 | Oh Why | ||
| B5 | My Nocturnal Journal | ||
| B6 | Reclusist | ||
| B7 | Everlasting Eye | ||
| To Subtle-Drive | |||
| A1 | To Subtle-Drive | ||
| A2 | Techno-Guillotine | ||
| A3 | Pocket Zimbabwe | ||
| B1 | It’s A Crazy Fear | ||
| B2 | Subliminalogy | ||
| B3 | Far Above The Clouds | ||
| B4 | Electric Meditation | ||
| B5 | Falling | ||
| C1 | Suppressionist | ||
| C2 | Death Row Lingo | ||
| C3 | Climb The Sun | ||
| C4 | Lost Your Soul | ||
| D1 | Backbone Beat | ||
| D2 | Friction Song | ||
| D3 | When The Morning Comes | ||
| D4 | The Guidelines Of Labor | ||
| D5 | Always | ||
Credits
- Eloise Leigh
- Layout
- George Horn
- Remastered By
- Carolyn Fok
- Written By, Recorded By, Performer, Liner Notes
