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Cyrnai Parts Of The Insomniac Wheel

Dark Entries | Item No: 605272
Vinyl 2LP | 2018 / US – Original | New
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Item Description
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, 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.


In 1986 Carolyn moved into her family’s building in downtown San Francisco providing a space to develop her own art and music for the next two decades. She was the only tenant of the five story building. The top floor had 36 abandoned rooms with building materials and holes between floors, staircases that created natural reverb. It was during this isolated time that Carolyn would start working on her second release, ‘Parts of The Insomnic Wheel,’ 60-minutes of ten untitled pieces that ran into each other. This was also the first release on cassette due time constraints of the LP. She spent many nights at the 24-hour diner across the street chatting metaphysics, parallel universes, the 5th dimension and astro-projections. Carolyn would sleep next to paper/pencil and report dream states, experimenting with mental techniques, investigating how far her mind could go. It was a journey to unravel the ‘dark night of the soul’. Utilizing her industrial surroundings, Carolyn would bang on sheet metal and record percussion on found materials. Originally released by Ladd-Frith in 1986, this reissue adds 4 unreleased bonus tracks recorded during the same period. Each copy includes a 16-page zine with lyrics, photos and notes by Carolyn. All songs have been remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios.
Item Details
Item No: 605272
Artist: Cyrnai
Title: Parts Of The Insomniac Wheel
Label: Dark Entries
Catalog No: DE 208
Format: Vinyl 2LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: US – Original
Release Date: 2018
Genre: Electronic & Dance
Style: Downbeat | Electronica | Leftfield
Available since: 2018-08-31
Condition: New
Price: 28,99 € 20,29 €
Weight: 500g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
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 & 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
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