Description
Dark Entries is honored to reissue 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)
TRACKLIST
Charred Blossoms
SIDE A
Phobic In Ruins
Waydom
Noct (Mourning Glare)
Incision Tree
Sensitivity
Windmill
SIDE B
Be Happy Or Go Straight
Waydom (Demo)
Burnt Shadows
Progress After Distance
A Prosaic Afternoon
Power to Wait
Kemoflosh 2
The Day Inside
Bonus Covers 7”
SIDE C
In Your House
SIDE D
The Holy Hour
It's Her Factory
Parts Of The Insomnic Wheel
SIDE A
Constant
Red Carpet Hallways
Dungeon of Leftovers
The Pitchfork of Womanhood
Prison Tree Duet
SIDE B
Numb Machinery
White Sky Moving
Tibetan Bowls Signaling
Fluorescent Nerve Endings
Spirals and Diameters
Clutching A Pencil
SIDE C
Time Has The Humor
Cinder Theory
Indoor Lighting
I Was Over-born
Dig a hole
Oh, Sun Come In!
SIDE D
A Goodbye Peck
Storing The Past in Formaldehyde
Prison Tree
Dreamer’s Paralysis
Have You Heard My Life
Ride Into Your Energy
Hypno-Seizure
SIDE A
Is It Colored Numbers?
A Thousand Eyes On One Street
Going Under Hypnotized
Hallucination, Custom Cut
Robot State
I Will Have You
SIDE B
A Rainbow of Business
The Promise of Happiness
Brushed With Water
Oh Why
My Nocturnal Journal
Reclusist
Everlasting Eye
To Subtle-Drive
SIDE A
To Subtle Drive
Techno-Guillotine
Pocket Zimbabwe
SIDE B
It’s a Crazy Fear
Subliminalogy
Far Above The Clouds
Electric Meditation
Falling
SIDE C
Suppressionist
Death Row Lingo
Climb the Sun
Lost Your Soul
SIDE D
Backbone Beat
Friction Song
When The Morning Comes
The Guidelines of Labor
Always
