Cyrnai: Transfigurations
- Face Of The Earth
- Electric Sanctuary
- Heart of Ice
- Within A Field
- Transfiguration
- Digital Grit Box
- LoveSexDesire
- Sparks
- Is This A Dream?
- StormMind
- In My Winter
- The Absence
- Silent Station
- Ashes
How does one describe an artist who has worked with a wide variety of
industrial and noise artists for over a decade, but has never really been
recognized or noticed by anyone? Cyrnai has been working with such diverse
artists as Brian Ladd of Blackhouse and Elliot Sharp of Carbon, and has been a
member of four distinctly different bands, ranging from punk, gothic, noise,
and industrial genres since 1981. Yet, until I received this album in the mail,
I wasn't even aware she existed. Musically this solo effort, with the help of a
few guests, is a collection of totally electronic pieces that range from dance
tunes, sample collages, and, odd technoish pieces. The only guitars you are
going to hear will be muted samples, distorted beyond recognition and clarity.
Cyrnai also performs all of her own vocal work which ranges from chanting,
spoken word, to more traditional methods. The CD also comes with an eighty page
companion book which documents dreams that the artists herself has experienced
since 1982. Overall a very solid release by a previously unknown artists, who
apparently has been sitting quietly in the background gauging for the right
moment to pounce upon the musical world in all her splendid talent.
Cyrnai is: Carolyn Fok
Contact:
Titanium Records
633 Post Street #118
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 433-9741
E-mail: titanium@cyrnai.com
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