Label: Dark Entries

個人的激推し女性音楽家の諸作を一挙入荷！！9歳の時にテープレコーダーを使い録音を開始、父親が使用していた楽器やエフェクターに興味を持ち、その後TEACのオープンリールに魅了され独自のサウンドデザインを追求する事となるベイエリア出身のアジア系アメリカ人女性アーティストCyrnai。Cabaret Voltaireやアナーコパンクの影響下、エキセントリックなエレクトロやシンセウェーヴ、ダークアンビエントを大量に生産、本作は1986年に米Ladd-Frithより発表された1stカセット[Parts Of The Insomnic Wheel]のリマスター再発版。同時期に録音された4つの未発表のボーナスを追加、16ページのZine付き2枚組LPとして仕上げた超豪華仕様。画家としての側面も持つ、この人物ならではの強靭なイメージは是非一度体感すべき。



We are honored to reissue 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.