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cyrnai - parts of the insomnic wheel - dark entries - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Techno / Electro - Electronics

1. Constant
2. Red Carpet Hallways
3. Dungeon Of Leftovers
4. The Pitchfork Of Womanhood
5. Prison Tree Duet
6. Numb Machinery
7. White Sky Moving
8. Tibetan Bowls Signaling
9. Fluorescent Nerve Endings
10. Spirals And Diameters
11. Clutching A Pencil
12. Time Has The Humor
13. Cinder Theory
14. Indoor Lighting
15. I Was Over-born
16. Dig A Hole
17. Oh, Sun Come In!
18. A Goodbye Peck
19. Storing The Past In Formaldehyde
20. Prison Tree
21. Dreamer's Paralysis
22. Have You Heard My Life
23. Ride Into Your Energy

Reissue the 2nd full length from Carolyn Fok / CYRNAI, an Asian-American female solo artist from the Bay Area.

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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.